Slug Tales From Zone 6: Understanding garden soil
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Dirt is dirt — or is it? Anyone who’s tried to garden in North Idaho knows that our soil varies from bad to worse in …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Dirt is dirt — or is it? Anyone who’s tried to garden in North Idaho knows that our soil varies from bad to worse in …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Sandpoint City Councilor Pam Duquette is preparing to roll out a pilot project providing a dozen recycling bins to locations ranging from City Beach to …
By Reader Staff
This May, Sandpoint businesses and organizations are putting a fresh spin on the daily grind with the first-ever Commuter Cup, a month-long challenge designed to get people …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
As the Trump administration and its congressional allies continue to push for privatizing public lands, Idaho Republican Rep. Mike Simpson has bucked the White House, …
By Isabelle Manning
Reader Contributor
Growing up in the Bay Area, nature came with a schedule and a set of keys. For my family, it always took planning, packing and …
By Reader Staff
The Village at Riverview Ridge is set to introduce six homes designed to be affordable for the local workforce. The initiative comes through a nonprofit collaboration involving …
By Reader Staff
In celebration of Earth Day 2025, the Idaho Conservation League is partnering with the city of Sandpoint and Forrest M. Bird Charter Schools to host a cleanup …
By Ed Ohlweiler
Reader Contributor
When winter temperatures get into the 40s, I find myself excitedly wiggling into a wetsuit; which, despite being thin (the wetsuit, not me), proves surprisingly …
By Brendan Kelty Naples
Reader Contributor
I was dismayed reading in the March 13 edition the Reader about the current financial troubles at the James E. Russell Sports Center at …
By Reader Staff
Elected officials from Idaho and nine other Western states joined the nonprofit The Mountain Pact to send a letter to the Trump Administration and Congress on March …
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