Staying the course
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The Lake Pend Oreille School District Board of Trustees held a special meeting Dec. 29 to discuss possible changes to the district’s operating plan amid …
Category: COVID-19
Use Idaho’s excess revenues to save lives, not more money
By Sen. Melissa Witntrow, D-Boise
Special to the Reader
What if you were hanging on the edge of a cliff and your friend leaned down and started rapping hard on …
First COVID-19 vaccinations administered to BGH staff
By Reader Staff
Bonner General Health received its first doses of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination this week, specifically for frontline workers. The first six health care workers received their …
Idaho officials ponder vaccination queue
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Now that vaccines for COVID-19 have made their way to Idaho, health and government officials are working on how to most fairly and effectively distribute …
Idaho receives first batches of COVID-19 vaccine
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The Panhandle Health District reported 292 new cases of COVID-19 in the five northern counties Dec. 16, bringing the total number of cases to 13,662 …
Earn a $300 charitable giving donation in 2020 thanks to the CARES Act
By Reader Staff
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act made changes to tax rules in 2020 to allow for increased charitable giving amid the pandemic and corresponding economic …
LPOSD eases COVID-19 quarantine restrictions
By Zach Hagadone and Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Trustees of the Lake Pend Oreille School District at their regular meeting Dec. 8 reiterated a commitment to keeping schools open amid …
Mask order is no attack on freedom
By Cynthia Dalsing
Reader Contributor
I take issue with Steven Bradshaw, Bonner County commissioner, after his recent diatribe against a public mask mandate by the Panhandle Health Department [News, “Education, …
COVID numbers continue daily climb
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Communities throughout Idaho continue to struggle with navigating the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Cases of the virus have skyrocketed in recent weeks, amounting to about 14 …
Masks, money and ‘making some sort of a point’
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Who has the authority to take the reins during a deadly pandemic?
Elected officials — and citizens — across the state have wrestled with this …
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