Independent and local — always
By Ben OlsonReader Staff When the Reader was founded in 2004, it was owned by three college friends who wanted to provide an alternative voice in North Idaho. When Zach Hagadone, John Reuter and...
Category: History
Mad about Science: Horses
By Brenden BobbyReader Columnist Dogs have earned the moniker of “man’s best friend,” but it may be more accurate to relabel them as “man’s oldest friend.” Dogs were domesticated around 14,500 years ago, becoming...
The Sandpoint Eater: M&Mmmms
By Marcia PilgeramReader Columnist Earlier this week, in great anticipation of juvenile house guests arriving for Easter, I made a pilgrimage to Costco. As I perused the cereal aisle, the sweetest little family rolled...
The death of comedy
A political tragedy By Zach HagadoneReader Staff It seems to be a trend that as political regimes — even whole civilizations — begin to collapse, people not only keep laughing but laugh louder. The...
Mad about Science: Mobile homes
By Brenden BobbyReader Columnist I am currently in the midst of a laborious demolition project on my property. My grandfather built the house in which I currently live while himself living out of a...
The island we call Earth
By Richard SevenichReader Contributor The Iran war (a.k.a. “Operation Epstein Fury”) has served as a very real distraction from other national and international issues. Countering this distraction, I will write about humanity’s extraction of...
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...
Panida screening of Sandpoint: At the North End of the Long Bridge celebrates the town’s 125th anniversary
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff It’s been 125 years since Sandpoint was incorporated on Feb. 7, 1901, and the Bonner County Historical Society and Museum is celebrating with a special screening of Sandpoint: At the...
Mad about Science: Peanut butter
By Brenden BobbyReader Staff Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are an American staple, but have you ever stopped to ask yourself why? What is it about solid nuts transformed into a non-Newtonian fluid that...
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...
