208 Fiction results for 2025
Here we present the winners of the fourth annual Sandpoint Reader 208 Fiction contest, in which we invited writers to submit a work of fiction totaling exactly 208 words for consideration by a panel...
Author: Ben Olson
Early notes for the 2025 legislative session
By Rep. Mark Sauter, R-Sandpoint Reader Contributor Greetings. The Legislative session started this week. On Jan. 6, Gov. Brad Little gave his State of the State address to a joint meeting of the House...
Jimmy Carter and Cecil Andrus exemplified public service
By Helen Newton Reader Contributor It was in October 1976, before he was elected, that I met Jimmy Carter. Well, to be fair, I didn’t actually “meet” him; but, in a way I was...
Privatization of City Beach
By Bonner Co. Republican Women, Inc. Reader Contributors As Republicans, we believe in free market capitalism, private entrepreneurship and private property rights. Still, we also believe in the inalienable collective property rights citizens have...
Lakes Commission reschedules meeting on Albeni Falls Dam gate replacement project
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The anticipated meeting of the Lakes Commission on Thursday, Jan. 9 will be rescheduled to Friday, Jan. 10, as the previous date has been declared a national day of...
City approves sending ‘letter of interest’ to state for wastewater treatment plant funding
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Sandpoint City Hall moved the ball forward on the long-running effort to replace and rebuild the aged wastewater treatment plant, with approval at a Jan. 8 special meeting of...
Mad about Science: Kiwi
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist We’re ringing in the new year with an ambitious experiment! In a Mad About Science first, we’re going to be learning about two completely different subjects under a single...
A delivery of hope (and food)
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There’s a theory that sandwiches taste better when someone else makes them. I wonder what the consensus is on delivered meals? Since 2019, the students at Lake Pend Oreille...
The films of 2024
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The past year lacked anything like “Barbenheimer” in more ways than one. No two films captured the cultural imagination like Barbie and Oppenheimer did in 2023, much less one....
The old new TV of 2024
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Critics and movie buffs alike have railed against Hollywood for years over its plethora of sequels, prequels and remakes. TV has been likewise formulaic and repetitive, but it reached...
