Saving the libraries
By K.L. Huntley
Reader Contributor
It is high time for everyone to sit down and quietly come to their senses. Eons ago I wrote a bad song (all of them …
By K.L. Huntley
Reader Contributor
It is high time for everyone to sit down and quietly come to their senses. Eons ago I wrote a bad song (all of them …
By Zach Hagadone and Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Candidates for District 1 Idaho Senate and District 1 Idaho House Seats A and B gathered at the Sandpoint High School auditorium …
By Rep. Lauren Necochea, D-Boise
Reader Contributor
Our branches of government are designed to provide checks and balances. When the Idaho Legislature commits overreach, cruelty or foolishness, the governor’s veto …
By Rep. Mark Sauter, R-Sandpoint
Reader Contributor
Greetings. I hope all is well. The Legislature is in its 10th week of session. The introduction of bills has slowed but is …
By Kyle Pfannenstiel
Idaho Capital Sun
Weeks after a library materials regulation bill failed by one vote in the state Senate, Idaho lawmakers on March 11 quickly advanced an amended …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
January’s wet weather has the East Bonner County Library District ready for an early spring cleaning project — and this year, the entire organizational system …
By Mia Maldonado
Idaho Capital Sun
Maegan Hanson became a librarian because of her love of reading. Her favorite part of her job is helping people discover their next favorite …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
We’ve been doing these retrospectives every year since 2020, and so far the ’20s have lived up to their reputation for being “roaring.” Just reading …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
By now our community is far too familiar with the words “banned books.” North Idaho’s libraries are battlegrounds where a few attempt to limit the …
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
Once upon a time, I was a librarian. I came for the books — words are my jam, after all — but I stayed …
The Sandpoint Reader is our town's local, independent weekly newspaper. "Independent" means that the Reader is locally owned, in a partnership between Publisher Ben Olson and Keokee Co. Publishing, the media company owned by Chris Bessler that also publishes Sandpoint Magazine and Sandpoint Online. Sandpoint Reader LLC is a completely independent business unit; no big newspaper group or corporate conglomerate or billionaire owner dictates our editorial policy. And we want the news, opinion and lifestyle stories we report to be freely available to all interested readers - so unlike many other newspapers and media websites, we have NO PAYWALL on our website. The Reader relies wholly on the support of our valued advertisers, as well as readers who voluntarily contribute. Want to ensure that local, independent journalism survives in our town? You can help support the Reader for as little as $1.