Local News Beat

• CANDIDATE QUESTIONNAIRE
  2026 general Election By Reader Staff Before each election, the Sandpoint Reader reaches out to candidates in contested legislative and local races ...
• ‘Affordability’ the top concern at forum
  All invited Republican candidates decline to attend By Ben OlsonReader Staff The dais was noticeably sparse at the Oct. 20 candidates’ forum ...
• PHD announces new CFO
  Board institutes AI limitations for staff By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff More than a month after a slew of resignations, the Panhandle Health ...
• Sandpoint enters into owner’s rep agreement on wastewater plant project
  By Zach HagadoneReader Staff The city of Sandpoint took an important step to move forward with the planned reconstruction of the ...
• BoCo sheriff: ‘We would have received an indictment’
  Meeting recording still absent from county YouTube By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Bonner County Sheriff Daryl Wheeler has weighed in on the recent ...
• Early voting opens Oct. 19 with election forum set for Oct. 20
  By Reader Staff Early voting in the 2026 general election begins on Monday, Oct. 19, with eligible resident electors able to ...
• Prior sexual assault allegations against commissioner candidate made public
  Idaho Attorney General’s Office declined to file criminal charges By Soncirey Mitchell and Zach HagadoneReader Staff The regular business meeting of the ...
• Sandpoint council votes to move forward with City Beach parking lot concept
  By Zach HagadoneReader Staff The city of Sandpoint is moving forward with a redesign of the City Beach parking lot, after ...

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Opinions and Columns

• A few thoughts
  On the alphabet and tragic fiction By Sandy ComptonReader Columnist About 3,800 years ago, just over 1% of the time that modern ...
• Tunes of Terror
  By Zach Hagadone and Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Alongside its jollier cousin in December, Halloween is as much a feeling as a ...
• The Sandpoint Eater
  She’s back! By Marcia PilgeramReader Columnist There are people who become attached to their cars, their favorite old chairs or a well-worn ...
• Sticks and stones
  Words of the Year provide a long view at the bubbling yeast of humanity By Ben OlsonReader Staff In 2003, Merriam-Webster began ...
• Mad About Science: Unexplained mysteries
  By Brenden BobbyReader Columnist We’ve spent October exploring all sorts of unexplained mysteries; and, as Halloween descends upon us, we look ...
• Trophy hunting
  Elk season and volleyball season coalesce By Lyndsie Kiebert-CareyReader Contributor For an elk hunt to end with a harvest, a lot has ...
• Slop new world
  By Ben OlsonReader Staff For the first time in the Reader’s history, we ran the candidate questionnaire responses that we publish ...
• Under the city of love
  A brief history of the Paris Catacombs By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff In the grand scheme of things, the catacombs beneath Paris are ...

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