Local News in Pend Oreille County

Live Your Dream Award applications open

NEWPORT — The Live Your Dream award offers cash grants to women or girls seeking financial assistance for educational or training expenses.Women and girls who work or reside in Pend Oreille or Bonner

HOT BOX

Special deadline Tuesdays NoonYARD SALESaturday, September 19th, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., 281 Gregory Street, Priest River. Guns, tools, comic books, and miscellaneous household items. Please no early

Cusick Panthers crush Curlew on the road

CURLEW – The Cusick football team dominated Curlew the afternoon of Friday, Sept. 11, winning 86-22.Junior quarterback Kaden Person led the Panther offense, completing 15 of 27 passes for 306 yards an

Panther runners place high in first meets

COLBERT — The Cusick High School cross country team is off to a head start this season.They travelled Tuesday, Sept. 8 to Northwest Christian High School in Colbert for the NWC Josh Wright Memorial Ja

Lady Grizzlies beat Rams, host Gorillas Thursday

SPOKANE — The Newport High School girls’ soccer team split last week between victory and defeat, beating their guests the Riverside Rams 5-2 Tuesday, Sept. 8.Joelle Brandtner scored three goals to hel

Spartan runners keep steady pace

ATHOL — The Priest River Lamanna High School cross country team is keeping a steady pace.Priest River travelled Saturday, Sept. 12 to Farragut State Park by Athol for the Timberlake Invitational.In th

Grizzly volleyball opens season with win

NEWPORT — In a five-set season opener, the Newport High School volleyball team won 3-2 against Reardan Tuesday, Sept. 8 at home.“Reardan is a strong team and definitely made us work for every point,”

BRIEFLY

BRI E FLYSelPort leads league in footballIONE – The SelPort football team, a combination of Selkirk and Northport high schools, defeated Springdale at home Friday, Sept. 11, 56-24.SelPort led 6-0 at t

School supplies for Stratton

Calling All Poets

Would you like to share your poetry with The Miner Newspapers? Email typed poems to minernews@povn.com no later than 5 p.m. on Fridays for possible inclusion in the following week’s newspaper.

BRIEFLY Local students make SNHU Dean’s List

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Southern New Hampshire University congratulates two local students on being named to the Summer 2026 Dean’s List: Hailey Hiebert of Blanchard and Tanyr Hahn of Priest River.The summ

Good Old Days

A boy asked his parents what it was like when they were young, They said played outside with the neighbor kids until then setting sun They were given chores to do like cleaning their rooms and taking