Author: Ben Olson

Boise Bound:

By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Writer By day, she’s a therapist. By night, Jessica Chilcott is a politician, social activist and avid consumer of superhero television shows. And just like a superhero, Chilcott has...

Envisioning a clean energy future: Part 1

By Art Piltch Reader Contributor “You never change things by fighting existing reality. To change something, you build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — Buckminster Fuller “Whether you think you...

Sun’s out, art’s out:

By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Writer When Pend Oreille Art Council’s arts administrator Hannah Combs prepared for her first ArtWalk last year, she knew it was a long-standing tradition. What she didn’t know was...

Roasting a film legend

By Ben Olson Reader Staff If you look up Erik Daarstad on IMDB.com, you’ll find his first film credit is listed as a cinematographer for a war film called “Hell Squad” in 1958. So...

Residents mobilize for dog park

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff For its quickly growing reputation as a dog-friendly town, Sandpoint still doesn’t have a park where residents can gather and exercise their pets. Now a group is working with...