By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Sandpoint’s miniature Statue of Liberty is back on its pedestal at City Beach after a monthslong restoration and repair effort.
The city of Sandpoint announced …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The Festival at Sandpoint recently released its annual report for 2024, providing an overview of the fiscal year’s accomplishments and economic data on revenues and …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Holidays never seem to go as planned — no matter how hard a person might work to make everything “perfect” on any given special day, …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Big things were happening in the eighth and ninth millennia B.C.E. Archaeologists and anthropologists generally agree that the period saw the beginnings of agriculture, the …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It has been an unexpected honor and pleasure to have been invited twice in the past year to travel the 400-plus miles south to Caldwell …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The city of Sandpoint is progressing with its effort to replace and upgrade the ailing wastewater treatment plant, which has limped along for years with …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
If the recent snowfall blanketed your yard before you had a chance to rake up the leaves, don’t worry. You are not an inconsiderate neighbor, …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
The Bonner County Republican Central Committee nominated three candidates to replace Dist. 1 Bonner County Commissioner Steve Bradshaw in a special session called Nov. 19 …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
While the detection of spongy moth in Sandpoint recently raised concerns for some, a specialist with the Idaho Department of Lands told the Sandpoint City …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Among the movies that came to theaters in the early 2000s, O Brother, Where Art Thou? could be regarded as one that approaches perfection.
Written …
TIMBER WARS: Six-part series, February-November 2022.
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WHERE ARE THE WORKERS?: Five-part series, September-October 2021.
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THE AMERICAN REDOUBT: Seven-part series, November-December 2017.
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STANDOFF AT RUBY RIDGE: 25 Years Later. Five-part series, August-September 2017.
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