By Tim Henney Reader Contributor This article is mainly for Sandpoint dogsters. What is a Sandpoint dogster? It is a citizen who couldn’t imagine walking in a park or on Mickinnick or Pend Oreille...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Erik Bruhjell was someone everyone wanted to be around. That he’s not around, having died in a car collision in July 2018, continues to be deeply felt by those...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Prior to the turn of the 20thcentury, a holiday tradition known as the Christmas “Side Hunt” was popular among hunters. Participants would choose sides and go afield with their...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff As hunters hit the mountains this fall on their annual mission to fill their freezers, many harbored a concern that the meat they harvested might be tainted by chronic...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff As Winston Churchill reportedly once said, “Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig! He looks you in the eye and treats you...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Somewhere on the dark, quiet streets of south Sandpoint, Wentworth the cat is on the prowl, searching for another pair of flip-flops to steal. The sandal-stealing feline, owned by...
By Jodi Rawson Reader Contributor Day 1 My youngest son, Enoch, is an animal whisperer and he insisted that we rescue a bird one evening. Thinking that it was injured beyond repair and would...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The 2019 Bonner County Fair theme — “Bounty of the County” — doesn’t only refer to the gigantic zucchini fairgoers are sure to see Wednesday, Aug. 21-Saturday, Aug. 24....
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Watching Quinn Dunn and his three-legged Great Dane Layla play together at the Ponderay Dog Park, no one would know they had moved to town just a week ago....
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Dogs of all kinds make the world a better place. But it could be argued that dogs raised and trained through the nonprofit Canine Companions for Independence may take...
