Conservation: From the Timber Wars to collaboration
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The so-called “Timber Wars” are generally described as having occurred in the 1980s and ’90s. It was a period of conflict waged in both the …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The so-called “Timber Wars” are generally described as having occurred in the 1980s and ’90s. It was a period of conflict waged in both the …
By Hannah Combs
Reader Contributor
In 1910, a passenger moving to Sandpoint by way of the rail may, upon glancing out the window, have seen a pennant waving gently in …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Sandpoint’s first federal building, a grand spectacle of brick done in the Spanish Colonial Revival style located at 419 N. Second Avenue, has been home …
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 …
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