Boater safety on Lake Pend Oreille
By Ben Olson Reader Staff With the heat of July and August comes an increase in boater traffic on Lake Pend Oreille. While boating with family and friends on a hot summer day may...
Author: Lyndsie Kiebert
NEOWISE comet will be in view the next few weeks
By Ben Olson Reader Staff If there’s ever been a time to shut off the noise of the terrestrial world and look up to the heavens, now is it. The comet C/2020 F3 (known...
Mad About Science: Backyard telescopes
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Few technologies are more intimately connected with the human experience than the telescope. Put in the simplest terms, it’s a device that makes your eye bigger, enabling it to...
Sign your name, save our schools
By Luke Mayville, Reclaim Idaho co-founder Special to the Reader For the next 40 days, Idahoans across the state will do something they’ve never done before: Add their electronic signatures to a citizen ballot...
2020 Bonner County Rodeo canceled on COVID-19 concerns
By Reader Staff Organizers of the Bonner County Rodeo announced July 14 that the 2020 event, which had been scheduled to run Aug. 14-15, will be canceled due to concerns over COVID-19. “It is...
To build a train bridge
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff After years of project proposals, permit applications, public hearings and no small amount of controversy, North Idahoans are noticing that work has progressed apace on the Sandpoint Junction Connector...
PHD changes testing protocol as local COVID-19 cases climb
By Lyndsie Kiebert and Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Panhandle Health District announced that beginning July 14, people seeking tests for the novel coronavirus should use their primary care provider. Moving forward, PHD will only...
North Idaho law firm chosen to help small businesses navigate CARES Act
By Reader Staff North Idaho law firm Smith + Malek has been selected to be part of a nationwide program to help small businesses and nonprofits understand their relief program options under the Coronavirus...
City to distribute free masks while motion on face covering ordinance dies in council
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The agenda item of greatest interest at the jam-packed July 15 meeting of the Sandpoint City Council revolved around the possibility of mandated mask-wearing in public places — a...
Bonner County files complaint over state’s CARES Act interpretation
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The Bonner County Board of Commissioners voted July 14 to file a complaint with Idaho District Court alleging discrepancies between the state’s interpretation of the U.S. Coronavirus Aid, Relief...
