By Sarah Garcia Reader Columnist On the second Thursday every May the quiet secluded Delay Farms in Careywood roars to life with the sounds of over a thousand students, volunteers, and natural resource professionals...
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist I stomped with clamped fists up the steps to my college’s main hall, rain pattering my head to match my mood. My stomach flipped as I attempted to steady...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Lake Pend Oreille School District will receive full funding for another two years following the passage of a two-year $25,400,000 supplemental levy. Voters approved the request with 3,391 votes...
By McCalee Cain Reader Staff Recent Lake Pend Oreille High graduate Jessica Inman stumbled upon her dream career as she worked on her senior project this year. “At first when I did my report...
By McCalee Cain Reader Intern Justin Henney is a full-time parapro at Washington Elementary school, and he’s really good at unicycling. When he wanted to support the remarkable generosity of his fellow educators, his...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Cynthia Mason has been teaching in Sandpoint for more than two decades, and teaching in general since the ‘70s. After this coming school year, she’ll retire in order to...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Colby Wilson is a 20-year-old mother to 7-month-old Luca, and as of last Thursday, she is also a high school graduate. Wilson’s path has been untraditional, full of the...
By Jodi Rawson Reader Staff My seventh-grade daughter says her principal is very well loved and greets everyone by their first name (even though the Sandpoint Middle School population is at full capacity). A...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Ninety kids. Ninety stories. Geoff Penrose, principal of Lake Pend Oreille Alternative High School, takes that philosophy to heart, and it’s something proven in just one conversation with two...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist A 2017 study in the District of Columbia about the effects of private school vouchers has further confirmed the results of recent studies in Indiana, Louisiana and Ohio. By...
