New Sandpoint Council members sworn in
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Shannon Williamson, Joel Aispuro and John Darling were sworn in as Sandpoint City Council members Wednesday, ushering in a new year for the governing body.…
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Shannon Williamson, Joel Aispuro and John Darling were sworn in as Sandpoint City Council members Wednesday, ushering in a new year for the governing body.…
By Cameron Rasmusson and Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Scott Rhodes, the person of interest in the distribution of racist propaganda at Sandpoint High School, has been investigated by another police …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
It’s been a whirlwind year locally, statewide and nationally. Whether it was major street and infrastructure developments in Sandpoint or the Trump Administration’s first year …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Former Ponderay mayor Carol Kunzeman announced this week her candidacy for the Bonner County Board of Commissioners Seat 3, offering a GOP primary challenge to …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
The American Redoubt has many components — political, philosophical and religious. But if there’s one element the movement needs to exist, it’s land.
For the …
By Cameron Rasmusson and Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
A large-scale distribution of CDs filled with racist propaganda disturbed the Sandpoint High School campus last Thursday.
The CDs, which contained white …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Faith and country
Nearly 500 people tromped through a muddy, rain-spattered parking lot the morning of Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016, bound for the Bonner County …
Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
It’s that time of the year when charity is most keenly felt, and a Columbia Bank charity program is helping to spread the love around.
The …
Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Christmas is only a month away, which means Toys For Tots is doing what it does best: making the holidays a special time for every local …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
One of the tricks of good storytelling is finding themes that resonate irrespective of historic time and place.
“Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau,” the latest …
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