By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Like most great innovations, EarthLab Cosmetics was born out of sheer necessity. Jennifer MacDougall and her mom, Diane Peterson, began looking into gentle, natural alternatives to traditional makeup when...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Downtown Sandpoint is a magical place during the holidays. After three months of construction along First Avenue and Cedar Street, the city of Sandpoint took the fencing down between...
By Mark Sauter Reader Contributor Last month the Bonner County Fire Chiefs Association (BCFCA) held three public forums. The BCFCA pointed out, in multiple, evidence-based ways, how Emergency Medical Services (EMS) would be improved...
By Brenden Bobby Special to the Reader Holiday gifts in the age of the internet are tricky business. This article is primarily aimed at parents and grandparents who want to make a splash at...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Movies, television and film have given us an idea on what medieval food must have been like: slop and watery gruel for the peasants while the aristocracy bathed in...
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist My grandparents’ television sat inside an old cabinet that could barely contain its mass. It had a large, curved screen set into wood-like paneling, and control buttons that stuck...
By David Phillips Reader Contributor Projects fail for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes the expectations are set too high; sometimes the allocated time or resources are insufficient; sometimes the tools suffer from fundamental shortcomings....
By Lorraine H. Marie Reader Columnist East, west or beyond, sooner or later events elsewhere may have a local impact. A recent sampling: While cattle are faulted for massive deforestation in the Amazon (when...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff A status conference in the lawsuit between Bonner County and Sandpoint regarding the Festival at Sandpoint weapons ban was postponed Nov. 26 because the judge in the case, Kootenai...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The Bonner County Planning and Zoning Commission voted unanimously Nov. 21 to approve part of a land use code change regarding recreational vehicles — and to hold onto part...
