Protecting our forests is protecting our future
By Chris Bachman
Reader Contributor
The Biden administration’s December 2023 announcement that it plans to protect old-growth trees from logging — such as those slated for removal in the Yaak’s …
Category: Opening Hearts and Minds
On motherhood
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
This missive has made it into the pages of the Reader against all odds from a world so far removed from reality that time and …
Mother, homemaker, world builder
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Recently, upon a Christmas tidings visit to the Reader office, Publisher Ben Olson asked me a perfectly polite and simple question. It was something along …
You wrestle like a girl
By Justin Henney
Reader Contributor
About nine years ago I asked my oldest daughter, Adeline (then in third or fourth grade), if she would try wrestling with a local wrestling …
Navigating water quality in Lake Pend Oreille
By Karissa Huntsman
Reader Contributor
As snow is falling on the mountains and hills around Sandpoint, many are looking ahead to the upcoming winter season. Here at the Idaho Conservation …
Surrendering our rights for the sake of politics
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
In the four years I attended Sandpoint High School many of my peers took their own lives — in 2015 we lost three in one …
Human Rights Day and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
By Barbara Russell
Reader Contributor
Human Rights Day is celebrated worldwide annually on Dec. 10 to commemorate the day the U.N. General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights …
Remembering, rewriting and reconnecting
By Jyl Wheaton-Abraham
Reader Contributor
I spoke recently at a public hearing regarding a permit request at the mouth of Trestle Creek. While numerous attendees raised concerns about wildlife, water …
Mike’s Corner: Reality
By Mike Wagoner
Reader Contributor
I got the call on a Sunday afternoon… It was a neighbor of my folks back in Walla Walla, where I grew up. I was …
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 
