‘We all took these trees for granted’
By Jane FritzReader Contributor For 48 years, every time I drove east down Oak Street in Sandpoint, I thanked the resplendent heritage Norway maple on the corner of Fourth Avenue for its remarkable beauty...
Category: Health
Mad about Science: Pandemics
By Brenden BobbyReader Columnist If you can read this, congratulations! You experienced a global pandemic that began in December 2019. Up until that point, the most recent pandemic the world had endured was the...
Emily Articulated: The score
By Emily EricksonReader Columnist In 2014, psychologist and author Bessel van der Kolk published The Body Keeps the Score, a nonfiction work exploring how traumatic experiences reshape the brain and body. Since its release,...
‘What’s the best use of public funds to help the most people?’
PHD, BOCC discuss future of clinics By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Representatives from Panhandle Health District met with the Bonner County Board of Commissioners on Feb. 23 to discuss a recent audit of the organization’s...
Holding the line
A brief history of the Priest River Experimental Forest and a conversation with the ones who keep the legacy alive By Ben OlsonReader Staff Tucked beneath boughs of western white pine, fir, hemlock and...
Sagle house fire claims one life, results in critical injury for another
By Reader Staff One individual lost their life and another was critically injured after a Feb. 15 house fire on Gold Mountain Drive in Sagle. According to a Feb. 17 news release, Selkirk Fire,...
Hoot Owl soup kitchen marks 12 years
By Ben OlsonReader Staff For the past 12 years, the Hoot Owl Cafe has hosted a soup kitchen every Monday night to feed the community — an anniversary celebrated by volunteers and patrons on...
Why clean water infrastructure matters more than tax cuts
By Sandpoint Mayor Jeremy GrimmReader Contributor At both the state and federal levels, leaders frequently emphasize affordability, economic growth and the importance of letting hard work pay off. Those goals are broadly shared. Yet...
A ‘niche’ service is optional; health care is not
By Jen Jackson QuintanoReader Contributor Women’s health care in Bonner County is having a rough go and, by extension, so are patients. Yet, instead of seeing access to care for half our population as...
Emily Articulated: Midwest nice
By Emily EricksonReader Columnist “Are you okay?” These were the last words of 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse from a local VA hospital, before he was gunned down in the streets of Minneapolis...
