A fruitful tradition
By Reader Staff
Get ready for another festive and fun BCGA Garden Tour! Sunday, July 15, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., is your opportunity to see six outstanding local gardens. Get …
By Reader Staff
Get ready for another festive and fun BCGA Garden Tour! Sunday, July 15, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., is your opportunity to see six outstanding local gardens. Get …
By Jeff Emmer
Reader Staff
The Freedom 5K Fun Run (formerly the Haden’s Heart run) begins a day full of classic Fourth of July events in Clark Fork.
Featuring a …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Morgann Swansen loves her dogs, swimming, going for walks and hiking. She’s a local kid with a “wonderful personality,” but Morgann is also a “3-month-old …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
When local woman Stacy Bryan’s children started mixed martial arts several years ago, Bryan was fascinated by one facet of their training: Muay Thai kickboxing. …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
For biking enthusiasts, it’s the most wonderful time of the year.
That’s right: CHAFE 150 is right around the corner, and that means bicyclists from …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Coyotes at Sandpoint City Beach? Well, sort of.
Sandpoint Parks and Recreation is trying out a new goose deterrent system with the placement of several …
By Reader Staff
The Reeder Bay Campground, located on the Priest Lake Ranger District of the Idaho Panhandle National Forests will be closed for the 2018 camping season while the …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Predicting nature may ultimately be a fool’s errand, but being prepared for whatever Mother Nature throws at us — especially when it comes to fire …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Nothing says summer in North Idaho like a weekend of camping in the great outdoors. It helps if there’s also the sweet sound and scent …
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