By McCalee Cain Reader Staff Recent Sandpoint High graduate Isaac Bennett wasn’t a huge fan of high school. “I hated it,” he said. “I couldn’t learn in high school, and honestly couldn’t learn from...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The Community Assistance League, a local nonprofit organization which provides annual financial grants and scholarships to worthy individuals and organizations, awarded $39,400 in scholarships to 29 high school students...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Colby Wilson is a 20-year-old mother to 7-month-old Luca, and as of last Thursday, she is also a high school graduate. Wilson’s path has been untraditional, full of the...
By Jodi Rawson Reader Staff My seventh-grade daughter says her principal is very well loved and greets everyone by their first name (even though the Sandpoint Middle School population is at full capacity). A...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Ninety kids. Ninety stories. Geoff Penrose, principal of Lake Pend Oreille Alternative High School, takes that philosophy to heart, and it’s something proven in just one conversation with two...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff At Lake Pend Oreille High School, there’s no homework. Students call teachers by their first names. In most every case of late or incomplete work, there are second chances....
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Tucked in an unassuming brick building on Boyer, Lake Pend Oreille High School is the Lake Pend Oreille School District’s premier alternative school. What “alternative” means, however, takes a...
By Reader Staff Sandpoint High School’s Academic Decathlon Team had the honor of attending the United States Academic Decathlon National Finals in Frisco, Texas this year. The team, composed of members Adele Marchiando, Allison...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff The skill of piloting is paving career paths for Bonner County students thanks to the High School Aerospace Program. Now the public has a chance to see student progress...
By Reader Staff Lake Pend Oreille School District Safe Routes to School invites your family to join students nationwide on Wednesday, May 9, for Bike to School Day. The top priority on Bike to...
