By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff In plain terms, Hubbard Farms covers 1,040 acres in the Kootenai Valley, growing wheat, canola, barley and alfalfa on a productive patchwork between the Selkirk and Purcell mountains. But, as...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Stop for a moment and contemplate how incredible it is that you are reading. As far as we are aware, primates — and humans in particular — are the...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff As has become our custom, we like to set aside some time and space at the end of the year to reflect on the events of the previous 12...
By Rebecca Sanchez Reader Contributor My father grew up in a town on the outskirts of Zurich, Switzerland with his sister and five brothers. The lucky boy had the Alps at his fingertips. He...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Among the items on the agenda at the Dec. 15 meeting of the Sandpoint City Council — its last of 2021— was authorization for an application to seek $250,000...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Bonner County Treasurer Cheryl Piehl offered her resignation Sept. 21 to the county Board of Commissioners, sharing that her retirement from more than 30 years in the treasurer’s office...
By Susan Drumheller Reader Contributor The city of Ponderay announced Dec. 22 plans to use local option tax revenue to purchase waterfront property, expanding public access to Lake Pend Oreille. At 2 p.m. on...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Ann Neal, former bakery manager at Winter Ridge Natural Foods in Sandpoint and an avid baking hobbyist at home, heard about Community Loaves from a friend in Bellingham, Wash.,...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff As the 2022 Idaho legislative session approaches, with lawmak-ers expected to convene Monday, Jan. 10 in Boise, the pushback against the “extremism” of some members is already ramping up....
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist As I’ve grown older, the glistening promise of the winter holiday has become a little tarnished. That’s not to say I haven’t had wonderful Christmases, because I have, but there...
