The wedding singer
By Ben Olson Reader Staff I’ve played music at some interesting places in the dozen years I’ve been in a band. Once I played atop the freezers in Winter Ridge, my head just feet...
Author: Lyndsie Kiebert
‘The excellent fruit’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Few fruits can claim such iconic status as the pineapple. Cultivated for centuries — maybe millenia — by the peoples of South and Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean,...
Mostly Clean Comedy Night brings PG-13 laughs to the Panida Theater
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s a well known fact that “clean” comedy is much harder to do than dipping into the raunch. Real life may well be R-rated (at best), but it takes...
Timeless tales
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff William Shakespeare may have meant it philosophically when he said “all the world’s a stage,” but Montana Shakespeare in the Parks has been living that reality for 50 years...
Up in the dumps
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Bonner County kids of a certain vintage and/or sensibility will know what I mean when I refer to the Dufort Mall. In fact, they’ll also know that we have...
The Lumberjill: ‘You’re not the carefree woman I married’
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Columnist A friend recently sent me a New Yorker cartoon. Depicted in it is a harried woman wearing a baby, a child and a dog begging for attention at...
Mad About Science: The Kardashev scale, Part II
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Last week, we learned about what kinds of civilizations could exist in the vast expanse of space and what kind of technology humans would need in order to achieve...
Emily Articulated: Mid-August
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist Now that it’s mid-August, it feels like summer has shifted just slightly, like it recognizes impending autumn on the horizon, while not quite letting go of the intensity of...
Mountain lion activity partially closes trails at Pine St. Woods
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Kaniksu Land Trust temporarily closed several trails at Pine Street Woods on Aug. 15 after mountain bikers reported seeing a dead deer near the Crooked Tree overlook. The organization...
Bonner County proposes $81M budget
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Sticker shock is a natural reaction upon first seeing the proposed Bonner County budget for the upcoming fiscal year, which features a jump from $62 million in FY 2022...
