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...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Taran White has literally been fishing all of his life — his first trip aboard an Alaskan fishing boat occurred when he was just 2 months old. “My mom...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Your Amazon box may have a big smile plastered across the front of it, but that does little to ease your frustrations when trying to cram 50 of them...
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Columnist I feel like I spend a lot of time in this column focusing on the fears and frictions generated by the interplay of my work and myself. From...
