Two wheels for a cause
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Hailed as one of the finest charity rides in the country, the annual CHAFE 150 Gran Fondo bicycle ride organized by the Sandpoint Rotary Club is our community at...
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Happy birthday, Sgt. Pepper
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff When Janice Simeone adopted a barn cat from a neighbor in 1996, she also became the owner of that cat’s four kittens. More incredible than the unexpected adoption of...
‘We have met the enemy and he is us’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Remember back in June 2020 when armed militia-types patrolled our downtown to protect us from “vans of Antifa” that were coming from out of the area to burn down...
County land use plan and map deserve respect
By Susan Drumheller Reader Contributor One overarching theme that has emerged from land use decisions by the Bonner County Board of Commissioners is the assertion that the 2008 zoning designations for the county are...
Late spring storms bring high flows, potential debris on LPO
By Reader Staff Recent heavy rainstorms combined with runoff into Lake Pend Oreille from above average snowpack has raised the flood risk downstream of Albeni Falls Dam, according to a June 15 news release...
LPOSD reviewing school security
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Trustees of the Lake Pend Oreille School District heard a presentation June 14 from Superintendent Tom Albertson on school safety and security — a concern that has only grown...
New life on Pine and First
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff The building at 102 S. First Ave. in downtown Sandpoint — known so long as the home of Ivano’s Italian Ristorante — is launching into a new era this...
Sandpoint P&Z approves use permit for 130-unit apartment complex on N. Boyer
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Members of the Sandpoint Planning and Zoning Commission approved a conditional use permit application June 7, moving a proposed mixed-used development one step closer to bringing more than 130...
Conservation: From the Timber Wars to collaboration
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The so-called “Timber Wars” are generally described as having occurred in the 1980s and ’90s. It was a period of conflict waged in both the woods and the courtroom...
Chief Coon on school safety: ‘What it really comes down to is all we can do is be ready for when it happens’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Eight days after the mass shooting May 24 at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, which left 19 students and two teachers dead, as well as 17 others wounded,...
