Ponderay Neighbor Day seeking vendors for Sept. event
By Reader Staff
The city of Ponderay is calling for vendors for the fourth annual Ponderay Neighbor Day, a community event planned for Saturday, Sept. 19 at Ponderay’s “Harbison Field” …
By Reader Staff
The city of Ponderay is calling for vendors for the fourth annual Ponderay Neighbor Day, a community event planned for Saturday, Sept. 19 at Ponderay’s “Harbison Field” …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It’s good news-bad news for the city of Ponderay and Friends of the Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail. Residents approved the city’s 1% local option sales …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The images are blurry and no faces are visible, but it’s clear what people are doing: two are hauling a kayak, one has an inner …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
When Ponderay voters go to the polls on Nov. 5, among the items they’ll be asked to consider is whether the city should institute a …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The city of Ponderay is fronting a ballot measure Nov. 5 asking voters whether they approve of a five-year, 1% local option tax to help …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Four candidates seek public support this Tuesday when voters fill two open seats on the Ponderay City Council.
We reached out to the candidates to …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter fielded the concerns of North Idaho citizens Thursday, Oct. 19, when Ponderay had its turn as Idaho’s Capital for a …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
If a major part of growing up is moving out of the parents’ house, then SPOT just hit its stride.
The bus system, which launched …
Well, that didn’t take long. Only days after an unidentified male robbed Horizon Credit Union in Ponderay, Idaho State Police arrested Karl E. Erickson, 32, of Palmer, Alaska, in connection …
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.