Emily Articlulated: Reasons to stay
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist For the past few months, I’ve held a question in my mind — not in the fleeting and up-front way I ponder what I want for lunch, or in...
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City gets rolling on Division Ave. Phase 1 improvement project
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The city of Sandpoint is moving forward with a project to improve the heavily traveled stretch of Division Avenue from Superior Street to the intersection with U.S. Highway 2....
Advisory question on fairgrounds RV park abandoned
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Bonner County commissioners entered a special meeting Monday, March 27 with two items on the agenda — first, to determine the language for an advisory question on the May...
A colorful connection
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff For Sandpoint artists Robens Napolitan and Tom Kramer, “it was an art connection” right from the moment they met. Napolitan was handing out art supplies at a community center...
The Lumberjill: BGH and other casualties of Idaho’s abortion ban
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Columnist The closure of Bonner General’s labor and delivery unit is the talk of the town. In fact, it is the talk of the nation. The Today Show reported...
Mad About Science: Managing fire
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Fire has been humankind’s greatest ally and adversary for at least 300,000 years. It’s easy to believe that dousing a runaway flame with water will extinguish it, but this...
BoCo fairgrounds tussle headed to May ballot as advisory question
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Bonner County commissioners on March 21 reversed an earlier decision to move forward with a highly contentious boundary line adjustment between the Bonner County Fairgrounds and sheriff’s complex, also...
Silicon smelter once planned for Newport, now under construction in Tennessee
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff If it seems like there hasn’t been much news coming out of the proposed silicon smelter in Newport, Wash., it’s because the project made a fairly quiet exit from...
Area hospitals pledge support as Bonner General announces end to maternity services
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Since the news broke March 17 that Bonner General Health would suspend labor and delivery services effective May 19, the story has torn not only through the local community...
Mad About Science: Northern flicker
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Every year, around this time I hear a little tap, tap, tap at the window. First thing in the morning, it’s always a little bit disorienting — who is...
