Chamber welcomes Idaho Club with ribbon cutting
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The Greater Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce welcomed the Idaho Club golf resort with a ribbon cutting on Monday, May 8. The Idaho Club invited members of the media, area...
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Area women honored as ‘Women of Wisdom’
By Jim Ramsey Reader Staff This Saturday, five Bonner County women will be honored for their community service and leadership with the cherished “Women of Wisdom” award bringing to 100 the total of women...
Second rail bridge over Lake Pend Oreille should require public comment
By Shannon Williamson, Ph.D and Matt Nykiel Reader Contributors Recent news that BNSF plans to move forward with a second railroad bridge over Lake Pend Oreille has sparked a lot of conversation. The proposal,...
SPOT Bus eyes expansion to Bonners Ferry
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff For the better part of a decade, SPOT has been linking together the communities of Dover, Sandpoint, Ponderay and Kootenai. Thanks to an experimental route currently under way, Bonners...
SilverWing awarded legal costs in court
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff A state court ordered Bonner County to pay $752,907.82 in legal fees to SilverWing last week, another setback in its longstanding legal dispute with the company. The award follows...
Turf vs. grass: the debate for the playing surface at Memorial Field
By Cameron Rasmusson and Ben Olson Reader Staff A debate over whether to use natural or artificial turf in the Memorial Field renovation project is forcing people to question the park’s place in the...
Labrador enters gubernatorial race
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador filed candidacy paperwork for the 2018 Idaho gubernatorial race this week, joining an already-crowded field for the 2018 Republican primary election. The four-term Congressman joins...
Who is responsible for Cambodia’s ‘Killing Fields?’
By Nick Gier Reader Columnis On the 42nd Anniversary of the Fall of Phnom Penh and the 47th Anniversary of Nixon’s Invasion of Cambodia Pot’s revolution would not have won power without the carpet-bombing...
Maintaining the balance
By Justin Henney Reader Contributor Editor’s Note: The following piece of writing was submitted over a month ago but we have been backlogged with content, so we were unable to run it while the...
Mad About Science: Salamanders
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Sponsored by the Sandpoint Library The two things we love most: Ooey-gooey things and lizards! If they fired exploding insects the size of planets out of their mouths, it’d...
