By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist Memorial Day weekend is passed. Soggy campers weathered the weather, and cemeteries sprouted flags and flowers in remembrance of loved ones. Twenty-eight years ago last Sunday, I traveled to...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff One of the best parts of being a journalist — especially being a journalist for a really long time — is that you end up talking to a lot...
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist Just so you know, even if there’s nobody on the ocean to experience the waves, the waves are there. From 30,000 feet, whitecaps are still visible. And there are...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff When Bonner General Health announced in March that it would cease labor and delivery services, citing the “legal and political climate” of Idaho as a critical reason why it...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff “Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn’t a book in it.” — Mark Twain, on any and all works...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff When I look at my garden, my mind works in annual cycles. I’ll put tomatoes in this spot, I think, because it gets great afternoon sun. I’ll try to...
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist My brothers and I and our significant others once stood in Grandpa Earl’s east field on a summer night, watching sunset fade away. Hanging in the sky 10 degrees...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff For many years, in the earlier part of this century, my friends and I took to referring to Sandpoint as “The Shire” — owing not only to its natural...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The end of the ski season at Schweitzer is always a little bittersweet. Everyone down in the valley is rejoicing at the first warm days of spring, leaving only...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff I started my period at 15 years old. If your first thought after reading that last sentence was that it seemed too personal or too intimate to share with...
