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 Director Bob Howard brought...
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 view of Lake Pend...
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 what few teachers can...
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 house event. They browsed...
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist Someone has written with black spray paint on a retaining wall beside the Highway 200 railroad overpass at the west end of Hope, “TRUMP! SAVE AMERICA! DEPORT ILLEGALS!!” Besides...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff A Hope man is facing hard time in federal prison for printing several fake $50 bills. The Spokesman-Review reports that Keith Daniel Snyder, 51, was sentenced to a year...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Bird Aviation Museum co-founder Dr. Pamela Riddle Bird, 58, and aviators Tookie Hensley, 80, and Don Hensley, 84, were the victims of an airplane crash Thursday morning. An inter-agency...
