Writing the book about snow safety
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
To say Liam FitzGerald spent his career battling avalanches is putting it lightly. His long career began in 1968, when he got a ski patrol …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
To say Liam FitzGerald spent his career battling avalanches is putting it lightly. His long career began in 1968, when he got a ski patrol …
By Jeff Thompson
Reader Columnist
Jeff Thompson from the Idaho Panhandle National Forest Avalanche Center here. This is our last update of the season. Spring is generally a safer time …
By Melissa Hendrickson
Reader Columnist
Melissa here, the forecaster from the St. Regis/Silver Valley forecast area, sneaking in an article about our region down here. If you ever need a …
By Jeff Thompson
Reader Contributor
Have you been out enjoying this new snow we’ve been getting? We have! And we at the Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Center thought it’d be the …
The Sandpoint Reader is our town's local, independent weekly newspaper. "Independent" means that the Reader is locally owned, in a partnership between Publisher Ben Olson and Keokee Co. Publishing, the media company owned by Chris Bessler that also publishes Sandpoint Magazine and Sandpoint Online. Sandpoint Reader LLC is a completely independent business unit; no big newspaper group or corporate conglomerate or billionaire owner dictates our editorial policy. And we want the news, opinion and lifestyle stories we report to be freely available to all interested readers - so unlike many other newspapers and media websites, we have NO PAYWALL on our website. The Reader relies wholly on the support of our valued advertisers, as well as readers who voluntarily contribute. Want to ensure that local, independent journalism survives in our town? You can help support the Reader for as little as $1.