Houseplant hospital
How to keep your plants alive over the winter By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Winter is peak mortality season for desk cactuses and bathroom ferns, which suddenly seem to brown and wilt when the weather...
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Theory of Unknown Origin: Pseudoarchaeology
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff What do aliens, Nazis and the lost city of Atlantis have in common? A great deal, unfortunately, but not because of any global conspiracy hiding humanity’s secret history, as many...
BOCC warns of fraudulent Planning Department invoices
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Bonner County Board of Commissioners Chair Brian Domke warned residents Jan. 6 of an ongoing scam using fraudulent Planning Department invoices. The phishing scam has been operating since at least...
208 Fiction 2026 contest results
Here we present the winners of the fifth annual Sandpoint Reader 208 Fiction contest, in which we invited writers to submit a work of fiction totaling exactly 208 words for consideration by a panel...
BOCC undoes Dec. 4 vote, requests legal clarification on Fair Board duties
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff The Bonner County board of commissioners held a special meeting Dec. 30 with members of the Bonner County Fair Board, aiming to clarify each party’s respective duties regarding the fairgrounds’...
2026 year in preview
What could be in the coming year By Reader Staff While it may be a fool’s errand to predict the future, we’ve been doing it at the Reader every year since 2020 — getting...
New year, same drink
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff New Year’s Eve parties and Champagne toasts go hand-in-hand in the modern imagination, but though the beloved sparkling wine is now an institution, it had a long, forgotten history of...
2025 YEAR IN REVIEW
Recapping some of the biggest headlines of the year… pray for us By Zach HagadoneReader Staff At the end of the introductory paragraph in the 2024 “Year in Review,” we congratulated Reader readers on...
The best albums of 2025
A totally biased opinion from a musical office By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff This year was a horrible, no good, very bad page of the calendar; yet, despite the pain — or perhaps because of...
Environmental protection groups sue over Trestle Creek adjacent marina
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff The Center for Biological Diversity and the Idaho Conservation League filed suit Dec. 18 against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Army Corps of Engineers, challenging their permit approvals...
