Voices in the Wilderness
By Deb Hunsicker Reader Contributor “There’s some kind of animal down there.” I shift my attention from the bag of trail mix I’m focused on and scan the area my husband is pointing to...
Category: Sports and Outdoors
Why are you like this?
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff It’s come to my attention that my life story — such as it is — could be considered less than normal, due to the presence of ghostly apparitions and...
Warren Miller’s All Time film looks back at seven decades
By Ben Olson Reader Staff After the leaves fall and the first traces of white are seen on the mountaintops, a few hundred locals gather at the Panida Theater to participate in a longtime...
Local artists finish mural on wall at Hope Bridge
By Ben Olson Reader Staff When the world gives you graffiti, make art. After Hope resident Kathleen Huntley began noticing more frequent incidents of graffiti on the prominent wall beside the Hope Bridge, she...
Keeping the community warm with Coats 4 Kids
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Coats 4 Kids brought its annual October fundraiser to a close and has begun handing out everything Bonner and Kootenai county community members need to stay toasty this winter:...
IDL rules in favor of Idaho Club community dock near Trestle Creek
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Idaho Department of Lands Director Dustin Miller handed down a decision Oct. 27 approving the Idaho Club’s request for an encroachment permit for its 105-slip North Lake community dock...
Sen. Risch has historic opportunity to support the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho
By Jennifer Ekstrom Reader Contributor I recently had the great honor to attend the Upper Columbia United Tribes’ conference on transboundary mining pollution in lovely Osoyoos, British Columbia. Indigenous speakers there illuminated that toxic,...
The traditions we keep
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Tradition is a curious concept. Do something once, it’s a lark. A few times, a habit. Often, perhaps you’re forming a custom. At some point, after time and repetition,...
The butcher’s binky
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Contributor A couple of days into this year’s rifle hunting season, my husband Alex sent me a photo. The text notification made my heart race. He’d been gone for a...
New Camp Bay hearing set for Oct. 25
By Susan Drumheller Reader Contributor It’s been out of the public eye for months, but the battle over public access to Lake Pend Oreille at Camp Bay is not over. The latest court hearing...
