1+ hour, 31+ min ago  (373+ words) Southside Elementary students explored a new style of music with the Fiddle Camp Program, a special, weeklong fiddle residency taught by traveling musician and educator Kelly Thibodeaux. Children in Kindergarten through sixth grade participated in daily 45-minute lessons, learning the…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago  (917+ words) By Ben Olson Reader Staff Lake Pend Oreille High School teacher Rand Rosecrans believes that learning to grow and preserve your own food isn't just a hobby, it's a way of life. That's been the focus of his Teen Living…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (726+ words) By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff "The facts are that we have a shrinking population of students at LPOHS " and this is not a statistic that we should be worried about. This is a success story," said board Chair Lonnie Williams....

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (653+ words) There are two important events that occur every first Saturday in May. One is the Kentucky Derby, which Sandpoint Reader staff members always celebrate in fine style. The other is the Idaho Press Club Awards Banquet in Boise, which honors…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (433+ words) by Ben Olson " January 28, 2026 The Board of Trustees of the East Bonner County Library District recently approved the design for a two-level, 4, 456 sq. ft. expansion to be located on the northwest corner of the library's Sandpoint branch. The new addition,…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (860+ words) by Ben Olson " January 28, 2026 By the time the pizza boxes were opened and the checks handed over, six fourth-graders at Priest Lake Elementary were already grinning. What they didn't know was that the gingerbread house they built for the Festival…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (594+ words) by Ben Olson " December 30, 2025 Idaho is building community schools because they work. This evidence-based model is linked to better attendance, fewer disciplinary problems and stronger academic outcomes. But now the Trump regime has canceled the grant Idaho schools earned to…...

8+ mon, 1+ day ago  (536+ words) by Ben Olson " October 8, 2025 Since 2019, retired environmental science teacher John Hastings has been traveling with student groups from the Sandpoint area to work on coral restoration projects in the Caribbean." The idea originated during an Advanced Placement environmental science class…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (981+ words) by Ben Olson " September 24, 2025 By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Days after a coalition of Idaho public education advocates and individuals filed a lawsuit Sept. 17 challenging the state's new private education tax credit program, the Indianapolis-based Partnership for Educational Choice announced…...

9+ mon, 57+ min ago  (949+ words) by Ben Olson " September 10, 2025 By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The statewide nonprofit organization Save Our Schools will bring a series of town halls to North Idaho, inviting attendees to learn "about the harms" of House Bill 93, which lawmakers passed in…...