Proselytizing despair
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Pop culture started down a dark path in the early 2010s with the rise of shows like Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead,…
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Pop culture started down a dark path in the early 2010s with the rise of shows like Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead,…
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Communities across Bonner County are coming together under canopies of fireworks to celebrate Independence Day on Thursday, July 4, with each city putting their unique …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
I recently interviewed a young lady named Raye Johnson for a feature story this week (read “Raye of Hope,” Page 15). To put it lightly, …
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
We’ve been arguing forever about how we became a species. True, some don’t argue. They just believe one way or another, or accept that they …
By Cate Huisman
Reader Contributor
Anyone who reads the “Bouquets and Barbs” column of this newspaper may recall a recent rant by Ben Olson, who serves our community both as …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Visitors to Davis Grocery & Mercantile in Hope are sure to notice a Frito Lay box and blanket tucked beneath a table, and a bowl …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Bonner County declared a local disaster emergency Thursday, May 21 in response to flooding in Hope due to rapid snowmelt and rain.
County Emergency Management …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
To Brent Lockwood, cemeteries are happy places.
Leaning on a rake, clad in muddy boots and work clothes, he’s smiling with an overcast but Ross-Hall-worthy …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
When Jan Riley began the 2016-2017 school year teaching in a multi-aged classroom of first, second and third graders at Hope Elementary, she’d done …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
By the end of the night Tuesday, nearly 300 people had entered the doors of Hope Elementary School to attend the Scotchman’s Peaks open …
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