By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
A training session for refugee work turned chaotic Wednesday after protesters packed Sandpoint Community Hall.
Police and fire department personnel had to turn people away …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Editor’s Note: Over a year ago, after the Bonner County Commissioners passed a resolution opposing refugee resettlement, we visited World Relief in Spokane, a refugee …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
An alleged sexual assault case involving minors in Twin Falls went national last week after city authorities decried its reporting on Internet blogs as inaccurate.…
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Council members voted to withdraw the Sandpoint resolution supporting refugee resettlement Wednesday night, bringing an end to a heated, month-long controversy.
Cheers erupted from the …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Last week, the Sandpoint City Council considered a resolution they characterized as a declaration of human rights and tolerance. A statement welcoming properly vetted refugees …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Nearly 200 people lined Main Street in Bonners Ferry Saturday afternoon, evenly split to the left and right.
On one side gathered North Idaho residents …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Leave it to Carrie Logan to finish her mayoral term with a bang.
The Sandpoint mayor and former councilwoman had an eventful final City Council …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
A mayoral proclamation welcoming refugees in Sandpoint will be among Mayor Carrie Logan’s last actions in office.
According to Logan, the proclamation will occur at …
By Jen Heller
Reader Contributor
It was the wet and muddy spring of 2011. En route to an agricultural internship in Sandpoint, I stopped over in Boise for a few …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
In contrast to the anti-refugee sentiment coming from county government, Sandpoint officials are planning to introduce a measure supporting Syrian refugee resettlement in Idaho.
According …
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