Dirt-y Secrets: Summer is a busy season in the garden
By Ranel Hanson Reader Columnist “Hot fun in the summertime!” — Sly Stone If you are a gardener, you live for summer. I am speaking for myself and anyone who loves to get in...
Category: Opinion
An ‘ungracious’ prayer
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Any halfway diligent reader of the Reader since December 2004 is familiar with my coverage of city decisions, trends and politics. They may also have noticed that I don’t...
The evolution of camping
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There is nothing quite so refreshing as sleeping outside. I’ve always been a camper, but as the years go on, my camping has evolved to incorporate many choices of...
Show up for Bonner County’s future
By Jennifer Ekstrom Reader Contributor It’s said that the world is run by those who show up. Well, this is it, folks. It’s time to show up if you care about the future of...
Eat a peach
By Ben Olson Reader Staff In Shakey, Jimmy McDonough’s massive 750-page biography of Neil Young, he described the moment when Young bailed on Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young midway through a 1976 tour. The...
The Lumberjill: Generation WTF
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Columnist <insert deep, fortifying breath here as I contemplate raising a girl at this particular time in history> <insert long, drawn-out f-bomb as I stall for time to develop...
Looking back
By Erik Daarstad Reader Contributor Having grown up during World War II and lived under German occupation for five years, I watched the planes drop the bombs that killed my Dad, passed through Gestapo...
The birds in my wall
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There’s a bird that lives in my wall. Actually, there’s a whole family of them in there, jostling around, chirping, fussing and pecking. I first noticed the stowaways a...
How Bonner Community Housing Agency is helping to house locals
By Cate Huisman Reader Contributor In my last piece about area housing policy [Opinion, “What we can do to address our housing crisis,” May 25, 2022], I mentioned that I wanted to write more...
Uncomfortably numb
By Jerry Luther Reader Contributor We parked close to the City Parking Lot, got our puppets out of the car and quickly became our characters — my wife is in Andorra, the 9-foot-tall Avatar...
