The will of the people
By Nancy Gerth Reader Contributor On Wednesday last I watched the Idaho House Health and Welfare Committee hear testimony on Bill 419, a bill sponsored by the Idaho Freedom Foundation. To my surprise, I...
Category: Opening Hearts and Minds
We can still save Trestle Creek and uphold Idaho’s Lake Protection Act
By Jennifer Ekstrom Reader Contributor In a remarkable show of unity and determination last year, our community rallied against a proposed expansive marina at the mouth of Trestle Creek on the shores of Lake...
Valentine’s Cards for Seniors enters its fourth year
By Ben Olson Reader Staff For the fourth consecutive year, Valentine’s Day will usher in a bit more love for Sandpoint’s senior population. Donna Price began Bonner County Valentine’s Cards for Seniors in 2020,...
Protecting our forests is protecting our future
By Chris Bachman Reader Contributor The Biden administration’s December 2023 announcement that it plans to protect old-growth trees from logging — such as those slated for removal in the Yaak’s Black Ram timber sale...
On motherhood
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff This missive has made it into the pages of the Reader against all odds from a world so far removed from reality that time and space lack any meaning....
Mother, homemaker, world builder
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Recently, upon a Christmas tidings visit to the Reader office, Publisher Ben Olson asked me a perfectly polite and simple question. It was something along the lines of: “Do...
You wrestle like a girl
By Justin Henney Reader Contributor About nine years ago I asked my oldest daughter, Adeline (then in third or fourth grade), if she would try wrestling with a local wrestling club. She agreed to...
Navigating water quality in Lake Pend Oreille
By Karissa Huntsman Reader Contributor As snow is falling on the mountains and hills around Sandpoint, many are looking ahead to the upcoming winter season. Here at the Idaho Conservation League, we are still...
Surrendering our rights for the sake of politics
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff In the four years I attended Sandpoint High School many of my peers took their own lives — in 2015 we lost three in one year. The administration and...
Human Rights Day and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
By Barbara Russell Reader Contributor Human Rights Day is celebrated worldwide annually on Dec. 10 to commemorate the day the U.N. General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, which this...
