Do you have old copies of the Reader lying around?
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Thanks to support from the community, Bonner County Historical Society and the East Bonner County Library District, the Reader has begun archiving the editions that …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Thanks to support from the community, Bonner County Historical Society and the East Bonner County Library District, the Reader has begun archiving the editions that …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
This year marks half a century since locals teamed up to officially incorporate the Bonner County Historical Society and, in turn, envision a home for …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The headlines in the Pend d’Oreille Review of Friday, Nov. 8, 1918 sound eerily familiar: “Republicans Win County Election”; “With No New Cases of ‘Flu’ …
By Hannah Combs
Reader Columnist
One Friday afternoon with nothing pressing to do, I turned onto the “Popsicle Bridge road.” My eyes habitually searched for a stand of aspen trees …
By Chris Corpus
Reader Contributor
You know you’re a local when, returning from the south, you get that special feeling of “I’m home” — a burst of endorphins or a …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
When Helen Newton took a U.S. history class at Sandpoint High School in the late 1950s, she was required to do an oral presentation on …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
If these walls could talk, who knows what stories they would tell.
If you trace history back far enough, you might find that just about …
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