Anchoring a community
BoCo museum renews lease, plans for future expansions By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff After seven years of uncertainty, the Bonner County Historical Society and Museum renewed its lease in Lakeview Park on Sept. 2. The...
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BoCo museum fundraises with community yard sale
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff The Bonner County Historical Society and Museum is raising funds for general operations with a community yard sale Saturday, Sept. 6, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Lakeview Park...
Help us archive the Reader
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There’s an old saying declaring the news is the “first rough draft of history.” Day by day and week by week, journalists keep track of the constant march of...
From the homestead to the horizon
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff In the face of great change, it’s not uncommon to feel helpless. It’s the only constant, after all, along with the passage of time. As time marches on and...
A bee’s journey
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Inspired by the natural beauty of North Idaho and bonded by a joint artistic endeavor, three local women have successfully published a coloring book with the hopes of encouraging...
Community, cake and a time capsule
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 the county’s history with...
A long lime ago in a mine not too far away…
By Chris Corpus and Hannah Combs Reader Contributors Delia Holton peered over the edge of the scow into the depths of Lake Pend Oreille. The boat rocked gently beneath the dancing feet of her family...
The brick barons of Sandpoint
By Hannah Combs Reader Contributor Peter LaFond had been playing the real estate market, carefully buying properties and trading up for more valuable investments. With a house in town and a 20-acre lot on...
A factory, a bridge and the name that made them legendary
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 that no longer beckon...
A match made in Sandpoint
By Hannah Combs Reader Contributor According to an article in a 1917 issue of the Pend d’Oreille Review, the history of the match industry “reads like a romance.” Match factory workers of the mid-1800s...
