The year in re- and preview
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
We’re just going to get this one out of the way at the top. Since 2020, when we started doing these annual review/previews, we included …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
We’re just going to get this one out of the way at the top. Since 2020, when we started doing these annual review/previews, we included …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
As has become our custom, we like to set aside some time and space at the end of the year to reflect on the events …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Yeesh. Where to begin? First of all, we’re quite aware that making predictions even in less tumultuous times is a fool’s practice. Yet, undaunted, that’s …
By Cameron Rasmusson and Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Ballot proposals
Beyond the expected electoral contests this year, high-stakes ballot issues defined North Idaho elections. Two votes, one measuring support of …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
It’s been a whirlwind year locally, statewide and nationally. Whether it was major street and infrastructure developments in Sandpoint or the Trump Administration’s first year …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
It’s been quite a year.
From its first days to its dying gasp, 2016 was a year marked by turmoil on both a national and …
By Ben Olson and Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
2015 was a busy year for us here at the Reader. In two more issues, we’ll have been back in publication …
The Sandpoint Reader is our town's local, independent weekly newspaper. "Independent" means that the Reader is locally owned, in a partnership between Publisher Ben Olson and Keokee Co. Publishing, the media company owned by Chris Bessler that also publishes Sandpoint Magazine and Sandpoint Online. Sandpoint Reader LLC is a completely independent business unit; no big newspaper group or corporate conglomerate or billionaire owner dictates our editorial policy. And we want the news, opinion and lifestyle stories we report to be freely available to all interested readers - so unlike many other newspapers and media websites, we have NO PAYWALL on our website. The Reader relies wholly on the support of our valued advertisers, as well as readers who voluntarily contribute. Want to ensure that local, independent journalism survives in our town? You can help support the Reader for as little as $1.