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...
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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...
Boundary line adjustment for BoCo Fairgrounds RV campground upheld on split vote
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Bonner County commissioners wasted no time at their March 14 meeting making allegiances known regarding an issue that first reared its head in July 2022: the expansion of the...
Council takes on Hwy. 2 redesign in marathon info workshop
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff As promised, the Sandpoint City Council hosted an informational workshop at its regular March 15 meeting focused on the Multimodal Transportation Master Plan, with a particular emphasis on concepts...
The Sandpoint Eater: Oh the Irish!
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist I just made a quick trip to Cork, to see a friend in failing health, and spent a couple of extra days in West Cork before heading back to...
