Go, dog. Go!
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Pepper, a boxer with an adorable underbite, has perhaps the best job in the world: she’s a trained therapy and reading dog. On the last …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Pepper, a boxer with an adorable underbite, has perhaps the best job in the world: she’s a trained therapy and reading dog. On the last …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Autumn weather has officially set in to the relief of firefighters across the state. The Idaho Department of Lands released its final statewide fire update …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
My old Montessori school once stood imposingly tall — for a toddler — between the Sandpoint Charter School and the roaring traffic of U.S. Highway …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Officials, developers and members of the public gathered Sept. 6 for a public hearing regarding the Idaho Club’s permit request for a community dock …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
The Bonner County commissioners’ regular Tuesday, Sept. 12 business meeting was punctuated by three separate recesses, as acting-Commission Chair Luke Omodt attempted to rein in …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
This July, the House Oversight Committee’s national security subcommittee heard testimony from multiple military officials alleging the existence of alien life — and, confirming the …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
At 10 years old, in the city of love and lights, I stood at the feet of the Eiffel Tower and looked warily around at …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
As fires rage in Idaho’s forests, the smoke hangs so thick sometimes in Sandpoint that its famous views take on a muted, ghostly pallor. Summer …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Pop-punk royalty Green Day has come out with a pile of Dookie merchandise in honor of the seminal album’s upcoming 30th anniversary in February 2024. …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Lake Pend Oreille’s noxious weed problem has worsened over the past six years, as blooms of invasive Butomus umbellatus, or flowering rush, have joined …
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