Two years of COVID
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Two years ago on this day I was out of a job — and, for the first time in my job-hopping life, it was involuntary. I remember it well,...
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School district interviews superintendent candidates, will announce finalists March 18
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Lake Pend Oreille School District trustees are narrowing in on a replacement for outgoing Superintendent Tom Albertson, who is retiring in July. Watched by district staff and community members...
Cold comfort
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff For the past couple of days, since our big cold snap, Reader Publisher Ben Olson and I have been sitting in the newsroom with two space heaters cranking away...
Conservation: From the Timber Wars to Collaboration
By Zach Hagadone Special to the Reader The first part of this article appeared in the Feb. 3 edition of the Reader. Find it online at sandpointreader.com. ‘A national ownership’ In the Inland Northwest,...
Conservation: From the Timber Wars to collaboration
By Zach Hagadone Special to the Reader This story winds through the earliest days of economic development in North Idaho taking in the booms and busts of the first half of the 20th century....
The best vacation ever
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff For the first time in what feels like years — and probably is years — I came to work on Monday feeling relaxed and rested. Optimistic. Enthusiastic, even. This...
Sandpoint P&Z welcomes new members
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Gone are the days when the Sandpoint Planning and Zoning Commission was considered a sideshow to the City Council. More growth and development activity has occurred in the Sandpoint...
RIP Betty White
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff By my reckoning, I’ve spent 11 of the past 16 New Year’s Eves in a newsroom, either partially or entirely abandoned, halfheartedly trying to do some work while watching...
Reclaim Idaho film screening at the Panida
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff From the grassroots organization that brought Idahoans the successful ballot initiative to expand Medicaid in the state comes a documentary film about that 2018 effort, which will screen Saturday,...
Disney delivers magic and mayhem with Encanto and The Book of Boba Fett
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Almost certainly banking on Americans hunkering down during the holiday season — it’s not like anyone’s getting anywhere via plane — Disney+ rolled out two big-ticket offerings in recent...
