Greek monk keeps faith, community together

For more than 50 years, Father Spyridon has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea. Panagia Hozoviotissa monastery has changed little since it was founded more than a millennium ago on the Greek island of Amorgos. And even as Greece rapidly secularizes alongside the rest of Europe, and islands like Amorgos wrestle with the massive growth of tourism, a few Orthodox Christian monks like Spyridon remain icons of local life. Locals continue to go to him for spiritual advice and praise his care for all visitors.

Community invited to find God's love

Local congregations invite all in the community to join them in faith — whether they are looking for a new church family or are new to town and are seeking a place to worship.

PREP TRACK & FIELD: Lamanna smashes two school records in Pasco

PREP TRACK & FIELD: Lamanna smashes two school records in Pasco

PL Water seeking rate increase

The Idaho Public Utilities Commission is holding a customer hearing on April 16 to take testimony on a Priest Lake Water's application to increase its rates.

IPUC reschedules customer hearing

The Idaho Public Utilities Commission is rescheduling a customer hearing on a Bonner County water utility’s application to increase rates.

Andrew Lightbody, 46

Andrew Jon Lightbody passed away on April 4, 2025.

Legals for April, 9 2025

Reject politicians, groups who fuel cultural divisions

Imagine if our legislature endorsed one state religion funded by our taxes, and only members of that faith could vote, buy land, find employment or protection under the law; and the only schools available were of that faith or private tutors for the wealthy.

Month's creation is a new low, even for Idaho

The Idaho House on Tuesday approved the establishment of Traditional Family Values Month, in a similar resolution to one passed in the Senate in February.

Solid snowpack raises water supply outlook

April could still bring some cooler weather that slows down the snowpack melt rate, but right now, it looks like winter has ended and spring has officially arrived in Idaho," the report said.

Idaho Department of Fish and Game prepares Panhandle trout stock

Bonner County lakes are among the bodies of water that will receive fish; Cocolalla, Round, Kelso and Jewel lakes are slated to receive 9,330, 2,500, 2,500, and 1,620 trout, respectively.

Gunter honored as chamber’s top Volunteer in March

Paul Gunter was recently honored as its March Volunteer of the Month by the Greater Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce.

Bonner County Calendar - April 10, 2025

A look at the events, activities, and meetings happening around Bonner County, from Sandpoint to Cocolalla, from Priest River to Ponderay, and from Clark Fork to Dover.

Legals for April, 10 2025

Trump administration rolls back forest protections in bid to ramp up logging

President Donald Trump's administration acted to roll back environmental safeguards around future logging projects on more than half of U.S. national forests under an emergency designation announced Friday that cites dangers from wildfires.

Bonner County Calendar - April 11, 2025

A look at the events, activities, and meetings happening around Bonner County, from Sandpoint to Cocolalla, from Priest River to Ponderay, and from Clark Fork to Dover.

Levy is in WBCSD students' best interests

Here we are in April and a levy for West Bonner School District will be voted on May 20.

Upcoming play features plenty of comedy, laughter

Head on over to one of five performances of "No Laughing Matter", written by Jeff Dunne, a play that features an ex-comedian busboy, a British courier for the Russian intelligence agency, and FBI agents who thinks the ex-comedian is a spy.

Bonner County Calendar - April 9, 2025

A look at the events, activities, and meetings happening around Bonner County, from Sandpoint to Cocolalla, from Priest River to Ponderay, and from Clark Fork to Dover.

Legislative session sees changes in education, taxes

District 1 legislators discuss local issues and concerns in the weekly Notes from Boise column.