Official candidate filing period open until March 15
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Though a number of candidates have already announced their intention to run for Dist. 1 legislative and local offices, the official filing period for the …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Though a number of candidates have already announced their intention to run for Dist. 1 legislative and local offices, the official filing period for the …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Members of the Sandpoint City Council and Planning and Zoning Commission again gathered March 13 for a joint working session to go “chapter by chapter” …
Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
When my aunt and uncle visited a couple of years ago from England, the latter brought along a folder of genealogical research he’d compiled about his …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The Idaho Republican Party held its 2024 presidential caucus March 2, with former-President Donald Trump handily winning the state’s 32 delegates to the Republican National …
By Zach Hagadone
and Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Local government watchers enjoyed a double-header on March 5, as both the Bonner County board of commissioners and Sandpoint Planning and Zoning …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The slate of Republican candidates for the 2024 election is getting longer with the recent announcement that Clark Fork resident Dimitry Borisov intends to seek …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It’s been a bad run of years for a lot of reasons, but one particularly insidious trend has been eroding the substructures of civil society …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The Innovia Foundation is spending the month of February spotlighting historic theaters in communities across eastern Washington and North Idaho, including the Panida Theater in …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
At its most basic, The Holdovers reads like a Hallmark holiday special: an embittered, middle-aged man; a teenaged boy whose loneliness has honed the chip …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Thursday, Feb. 22
Activities at Schweitzer
Meditation in the Cambium Spa, 9-9:30 a.m., followed by tubing from 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. and Flow Yoga at Cambium …
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