SHS Acadeca team headed to nationals
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
For most high school students, the thought of homework over summer vacation, studying through lunch period and extra curricular study assignments would send them running …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
For most high school students, the thought of homework over summer vacation, studying through lunch period and extra curricular study assignments would send them running …
By Cameron Rasmusson and Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Scott Rhodes, the person of interest in the distribution of racist propaganda at Sandpoint High School, has been investigated by another police …
By Jerek Wolcott
Carroll College Sports Staff
Reader Contributor
Carroll College offensive guard Todd Pays has been named to the College Sports Information Directors of America College Division Academic All-America …
By Cameron Rasmusson and Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
A large-scale distribution of CDs filled with racist propaganda disturbed the Sandpoint High School campus last Thursday.
The CDs, which contained white …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Sandpoint High School counselor Jeralyn Mire wasn’t expecting to be present for a historic moment while in Washington, D.C., last week.
Even so, that’s how …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
The last public forum of the election cycle saw local candidates sharing viewpoints on everything from health care to public lands.
Hosted by the Sandpoint …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
If you need to gauge the temperature of the conversation surrounding the proposed $55 million school facilities plant levy, just log in to Facebook.
Ever …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Tanner Kohal has his sights set on Sweden. The 16 year-old Sandpoint High School junior is selling raffle tickets to help fund the expense of …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Terrorist attacks. Suicides. Cultural clashes. Wars and rumors of wars.
For both Sandpoint and the world as a whole, 2015 was a year of upheaval, …
By Tim Henney
Reader Staff
On Friday night, Nov. 13, the civilized world shuddered. One hundred and thirty people were slaughtered and 350 or more hospitalized in Paris by ISIS …
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