On the front line
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Front line health care workers are always deserving of our recognition, but save a little extra love during National Nurse Practitioner Week, Nov. 8-13, for the 30 nurse practitioners...
Category: Health
Bonner General Health Community Hospice welcomes Dr. Jade Dardine
By Reader Staff Bonner General Community Hospice is expanding its team to include Dr. Jade Dardine. Dardine moved to Sandpoint at the age of 13 and attended Sandpoint High School. She has fond memories...
Idaho logs another day of 1,000+ new COVID-19 cases
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Aggressive community transmission and rapidly rising active case counts continue to plague Idaho as it navigates the novel coronavirus pandemic with an emphasis on local enactment and enforcement of...
Preparing your body for ski season
By Ben Olson Reader Staff For some, a late October snowfall brings sour faces and groans. For the rest of us who don’t walk around with an “I smell poop” face 24/7, it elicits...
Panhandle Health District: Get a flu vaccine
By Reader Staff The Panhandle Health District, which oversees the five northernmost counties of Idaho, shared a public service announcement Oct. 28 urging its constituents to seek out the flu vaccine. “As if 2020...
COVID-19 update
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Idaho has made national headlines in the past week both for its dramatic surge in COVID-19 cases — part of a nationwide trend of increased caseloads as the country...
Bonner General Health receives grant for Emergency Dept. renovation
By Reader Staff Bonner General Health announced it has received a $200,000 grant from the Sunderland Foundation, which it will use to fund portions of an Emergency Department renovation planned for this fall. The...
A grain of salt: The small things that keep us sane
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist The world may well be ending, and if assessments of common science are plausible, we’re headed along an expected trajectory where the only real debatable matter seems to be...
Rumors abound on potential new use for Thorne building in Dover
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Neighbors in Dover have been abuzz in recent days over what may — or may not — happen at the former Thorne Research building. The almost 60,000-square-foot building located...
Keeping their goals in sight
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Before Dr. Nate Harrell opened Pend Oreille Vision Care in Sandpoint a decade ago, he was fresh out of optometry school, dreaming of a place to call home. “He...
