June weather to determine fire season
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Predicting nature may ultimately be a fool’s errand, but being prepared for whatever Mother Nature throws at us — especially when it comes to fire …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Predicting nature may ultimately be a fool’s errand, but being prepared for whatever Mother Nature throws at us — especially when it comes to fire …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Change isn’t easy. And it’s made even harder after almost 50 years of consistency.
The change, in this case, is the relocation of the Pend …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Ninety kids. Ninety stories.
Geoff Penrose, principal of Lake Pend Oreille Alternative High School, takes that philosophy to heart, and it’s something proven in just …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Nothing says summer in North Idaho like a weekend of camping in the great outdoors. It helps if there’s also the sweet sound and scent …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
At Lake Pend Oreille High School, there’s no homework. Students call teachers by their first names. In most every case of late or incomplete work, …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Of all the threats to pregnant women — chemicals, litter boxes, hot tubs and more — Sandpoint woman Jessica Rachels didn’t know she was putting …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
After just half a year at Northside Elementary, the Basketball School of Sandpoint has grown enough to merit a change of venue. Starting June 5, …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Bonner County Commissioners approved higher no-wake zone fines Tuesday, doubling the infraction cost and making subsequent infractions even more costly.
Fines for no-wake zone violations …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The Northwest River Forecast Center predicts Lake Pend Oreille water levels will go down from here, as the lake hovered just over 2,064 feet since …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The U.S. Forest Service Sandpoint Ranger District announced Thursday approval of the Green Mountain Exploratory Drilling project on the southeast end of Lake Pend Oreille.…
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