A tip of the cap to Bonner County history
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
In honor of the 50th annual Winter Carnival — scheduled for Friday, Feb. 16-Sunday, Feb. 25 — the Bonner County Historical Museum will unveil the …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
In honor of the 50th annual Winter Carnival — scheduled for Friday, Feb. 16-Sunday, Feb. 25 — the Bonner County Historical Museum will unveil the …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Most people probably already know that the turkey is a uniquely North American bird — a fact primarily responsible for its central role in the …
By Nancy Foster Renk
Reader Contributor
Dr. C.C. Wendle had uncovered a story that was explosive — literally. An unidentified civilian employee at the Navy’s research facility in Bayview told …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last/ Slouches toward Bethlemen to be born?”
— W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming,” published 1920
It’s …
By Zach Hagadone
Special to the Reader
The first part of this article appeared in the Feb. 3 edition of the Reader. Find it online at sandpointreader.com.
‘A national ownership’…
By Zach Hagadone
Special to the Reader
This story winds through the earliest days of economic development in North Idaho taking in the booms and busts of the first half …
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
The view from the Jamieson’s dining room table is familiar but still breathtaking.
Beyond the curtains and glass lies Lake Pend Oreille, sprawled out beneath …
By Reader Staff
Fur agent, cartographer, and master canoe builder David Thompson was one of the first Europeans to see Bonner County’s highest mountain, Scotchman Peak, and paddle the waters …
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