By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist If I’m being honest, I haven’t spent that much time throughout my life considering with depth the role of gender equality on my unique experience navigating the world around...
By Susan Drinkard Reader Contributor I started going to garage sales when I moved to North Idaho about 40 years ago. I think it’s great fun and also a “ministry” of sorts. I come...
By Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Rognstad Reader Contributor The last several weeks have been difficult for many. The skies have cleared after a week of some of the worst air quality readings we’ve seen in...
By Scott Taylor Reader Columnist A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of joining a mountain bike outing with four of the many athletic, kick-ass ladies who inhabit this beautiful playground in which...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff On Friday, Sept. 11, an unidentified projectile hit the Lakeside High School football team’s bus as the team departed Clark Fork. It broke through two windows as the bus...
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist I rushed from the kitchen to my little office desk, clutching my freshly steeped mug of tea in one hand and throwing open my laptop with the other. It...
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist Recently, I witnessed a BMW fast little car and a burly Chevy pickup try to occupy the same lane space at the same time. The person in the BMW...
By Steve Holt Reader Contributor This is in response to Carrie Logan’s Aug. 18 guest opinion in the Bonner County Daily Bee [also published short-form in the Reader on Aug. 19 as a letter...
By Susan Drumheller Reader Contributor When I woke up the morning of Aug. 20, it was out of a dream that was almost comical. The protagonist of the story in my slumbering head was...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Fall-scented candles are unrealistic. That isn’t to say they don’t smell absolutely wonderful. Who can say no to cinnamon, apple, carmel and warm, abstract smells meant to imitate freshly...
