By Tim Bearly Reader Contributor Propaganda, with its myriad colors and shapes, is a ubiquitous and unrelenting force. Whether you’re watching TV, listening to the radio, reading a magazine or mindlessly scrolling on social...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff An official railway Quiet Zone will soon begin taking shape at the Ponder Point railroad crossing in Kootenai, as Bonner County commissioners approved a bid May 19 that would...
By Reader Staff With budding scholars across the country preparing to continue their education, Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness is proud to lend a helping hand. The wilderness organization awarded scholarships to seven Idaho...
By Reader Staff Lake Pend Oreille sat just below 2,058 feet above sea level on May 20, keeping with predictions the Army Corps of Engineers shared earlier in the month that 2020 would see...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Childhoods are defined by a range of smells, both good and bad. Fresh laundry. School lunches. Dad’s cologne. Locker rooms. Being a child of North Idaho, my upbringing also...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Odds are that most people remember Daniel Defoe — if they remember him at all — as the author of Robinson Crusoe. That, or they confuse him with the...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff An acclaimed coming-of-age documentary based in a small Florida town serves as the next film in the Panida Theater’s Virtual Viewing Rooms Series. The theater will offer virtual screenings...
By Chris White Reader Contributor Like an injected dye highlighting cancer in our body, this pandemic has revealed failures in our country— and ourselves. Two months ago, many were watching the darkening clouds of...
By Susan Drumheller Reader Contributor In March, as COVID-19 began taking its toll on the United States, fears of contracting the virus kept the usual donors away from blood centers and blood drives. Vitalant,...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Sandpoint Reader: What is the top challenge you see the state facing in the coming year? How might you face that challenge? Sage Dixon The top challenge facing...
