Anchoring a community
BoCo museum renews lease, plans for future expansions By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff After seven years of uncertainty, the Bonner County Historical Society and Museum renewed its lease in Lakeview Park on Sept. 2. The...
Category: Education
Project 7B hosts workshop on how BoCo code impacts properties
By Reader Staff Land use nonprofit Project 7B will host an educational workshop on how local code — such as the Bonner County comprehensive plan — affects the area’s landscape and future developments. The...
Students unite at Sandpoint High School’s Longest Table
The Longest Table initiative has been uniting communities around the nation for years, and at the beginning of the 2026 school year, it brought together Sandpoint High School’s new and returning students to share...
Career technical education trains the next generation of skilled workers
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Community members flooded Sandpoint High School Sept. 15 to celebrate the grand opening of Lake Pend Oreille School District’s new Career and Technical Education Center, located in the school’s expanded...
Human Rights Task Force hosts panel on Christian Nationalism
By Reader Staff The Bonner County Human Rights Task Force will hold a panel discussion on Christian nationalism and politics on Saturday, Sept. 19, focusing on the question, “Should the state have a Biblical...
LPOSD to unveil the Career and Technical Education Center
By Reader Staff The Lake Pend Oreille School District is opening its doors to the community for the grand opening of its new Career and Technical Education Center on Tuesday, Sept. 15. Everyone is...
POAC seeks volunteer instructors for Kaleidoscope Program
By Reader Staff The Pend Oreille Arts Commission’s Kaleidoscope program will add six to eight more classrooms in the coming school year, expanding from the 2025-’26 term when 56 volunteers taught in 47 classrooms...
The schoolhouse rocks
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Much political hay has been made about the supposedly decrepit state of our nationwide public school system, with whole industries devoted to tearing down confidence in how kids are educated. ...
Shared Waters: A film for a defining moment for the Kootenai River
Jennifer EkstromReader Contributor Pollution from five mountaintop removal coal mines in the Canadian Rocky Mountains is flowing downstream through the Elk River Valley of British Columbia; into the transboundary Koocanusa Reservoir; and then into...
Celebration of life planned for beloved late-educators
Legacies of Bill, Larry and Ray Miller to be honored with memorial scholarship By Reader Staff For generations of Sandpoint locals, the Miller family played an outsized role in their education. Brothers William “Bill”...
