The other bridge
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 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 Chris Corpus and Hannah Combs
Reader Contributors
She lay in bed, musing about the churches, schools and civic centers that would one day replace the wild land that surrounded …
By Chris Corpus and Hannah Combs
Reader Contributors
Laying her luggage on the bed (a real innerspring mattress, just like back home), she steps out the door and across the …
By Hannah Combs
Special to the Reader
Courtesy of the Bonner County Historical Society and Museum
On a fine summer morning in 1918, seven women gathered at the home of …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
For everyone alive in North Idaho today, the novel coronavirus outbreak is uncharted territory.
Across the world, leadership is suspending gatherings, closing schools and encouraging …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
History books are undoubtedly a vital tool in understanding the past. It only makes sense to keep records of years and days on which monumental …
By Timothy Braatz
Reader Contributor
Black History Month was created to celebrate the achievements of people typically excluded from the telling of U.S. history. In that spirit, here are three …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
When I was in school, we learned about one black scientist: George Washington Carver, whom my history book at the time summed up as: “The …
By Jodi Rawson
Reader Contributor
John “Doc” Ivy served five tours in Vietnam from 1966-1971. He was introduced in the Reader on May 23, 2017, as my beloved veteran neighbor. …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
As with countless communities across the United States, the people of Bonner County were shocked and angered by the news that forces of the Japanese …
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