Tidal changes of the inland sea
By Ben OlsonReader Staff When a billy goat or ram is castrated, it’s known as a wether. Because they are sans family jewels, they have less testosterone, making them less aggressive and easier to...
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Crews continue to fight fires in Bonners Ferry area
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Two blazes burning in Boundary County are filling local skies with smoke in what has so far been a relatively mild fire season, with the Turner Fire and Upper Smith...
Semiquincentennial celebrations
Where to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary By Reader Staff Communities across the nation are coming together to celebrate America’s 250th — or semiquincentennial — anniversary Saturday, July 4 with all the necessary fireworks, barbecues, pomp...
Marcella Nelson: Short in stature but big in service and commitment
By Reader Staff Longtime area residents are well familiar with Marcella Nelson, who celebrated her 97th birthday in October 2025. Though famously petite, Nelson has played an outsized role in the Ponderay and Sandpoint...
Woodward, Critchfield talk to constituents at town hall
Event focused heavily on education, budgets By Ben OlsonReader Staff More than 100 people attended the third and final District 1 town hall gathering March 28 at Sandpoint Community Hall, hosted by Sen. Jim...
A quiet, brooding masterpiece
Train Dreams is a film that captures the Gothic desperation of North Idaho By Ben OlsonReader Staff Underneath the paved streets, the brick buildings, real estate offices and fast-food joints, there exists another North Idaho. It’s...
‘The idea of the challenge’
30 years of the Long Bridge Swim By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff The 30th annual Long Bridge Swim went off without a hitch on Aug. 2, when nearly 840 swimmers tested their endurance, speed and...
Independence Day — the Idaho way
By Reader Staff Bayview The annual weekend of excitement that is Bayview Daze is back with a host of events from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, July 4 and 5....
Selkirk Loop Board calls for ‘swift resolution’ to U.S.-Canada trade war
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff As the fallout from President Donald Trump’s tariff policies continues to reverberate in markets around the world, closer to home the International Selkirk Loop Board of Directors issued an...
Nazis and nonviolence
By Timothy Braatz Reader Contributor In 1939, Nazi officials established gas chambers and began murdering tens of thousands of German citizens they considered “unfit.” The victims of the so-called “T-4” program included elderly Germans...
