A safe holiday season
By Ben Olson Reader Staff While Thanksgiving is usually a time when family comes together — often for the only time of the year — with COVID-19, many families are rethinking their holiday plans....
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A grain of salt: The small things that keep us sane
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist The world may well be ending, and if assessments of common science are plausible, we’re headed along an expected trajectory where the only real debatable matter seems to be...
Happy camper
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Imagine a place where the coronavirus doesn’t really exist. Where the petty squabbling on social media is just a silly memory. Where there are no armed protesters or conspiracy...
Failure to communicate:
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Working with the media is an integral part of being an elected official. At least it used to be. Now, with social media serving as an unchecked medium through...
A ‘drive-in’ graduation
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Every graduation ceremony is memorable, but, for the senior class of 2020, their big day will go down in history as the first to adapt to the social distancing...
Have a nice bidet
By Kelly Price Reader Contributor Once I got stuck at the top of the Ferris wheel. There were unexplained mechanical difficulties that brought about an unannounced hour-long sabbatical from Earth high in the twilight...
True crime is truly divine
By Ben Olson Reader Staff America is obsessed with true crime. It seems everywhere you turn there is another true crime documentary series that delves into the dark, evil, sometimes morbidly funny underworld of...
Mad About Science: Cooking
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Cooking is a chemistry class in which you get to eat your grade at the end. Most of us know how to cook food, but the actual science behind...
Runoff projections forecast smooth refill for LPO
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Current measurements are pointing toward a typical spring runoff and refill for Lake Pend Oreille, according to the Army Corps of Engineers — information the agency will be sharing...
What kind of puzzler are you?
By Matthew Weatherman Reader Contributor In these times, more and more folks are turning to their game cupboards for inspiration. Whether your quarinteam has many members or you are isolating in solitude, puzzles are...
