A ‘drive-in’ graduation
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Every graduation ceremony is memorable, but, for the senior class of 2020, their big day will go down in history as the first to adapt …
Category: Education
‘This big stink’
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Like most people, the period of time since March has been, well, let’s say illuminating for me and mine. I have learned a lot of …
Mad About Science: Cooking
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Cooking is a chemistry class in which you get to eat your grade at the end. Most of us know how to cook food, but …
LPOSD board votes to continue distance learning until May 29
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
The Lake Pend Oreille School District Board of Trustees voted unanimously at its May 6 virtual meeting to extend distance learning until May 29 — …
‘Building the airplane while we’re flying it’
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Trying to describe the rollout, administration and distribution of funds from the Paycheck Protection Program, national media headlines in recent weeks have been filled with …
The year that never was: part 3
Editor’s note: We reached out to a few graduating seniors at Sandpoint High School to ask how the coronavirus has affected their final year of secondary education. We asked each …
Gardening for the Apocalypse
By Emily Levine
Reader Contributor
With what seems to be the end of the world chomping at our heels and we stand feeling helpless before the diminishing supply in the …
The Plastic Challenge
By Gabrielle Duebendorfer
Reader Contributor
I started writing this article in January on a gorgeous beach. I was inspired by the universal paradox of beauty and ugliness; summer and winter; …
The year that never was – Part 2
Editor’s note: We reached out to a few graduating seniors at Sandpoint High School to ask how the coronavirus has affected their final year of secondary education. We asked each …
Mad About Science: Colors and pigments
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
There’s lots of gloom and doom that comes with isolation, all furthered by dumb-dumbs doing dumb things to get attention on social media. Rather than …
Coming up this week! Don’t miss Live Music, the Summer Sampler, the Art Party, Monarch Grind, the Sandpoint Renaissance Faire, and more! See the full list of events in the 