By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Chances are good you’ve seen Charles Dickens’ holiday staple “A Christmas Carol” adapted dozens of times over the years. But you’ve never seen it like this before. A mix...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Last week, on an otherwise quiet Monday night, more than 40 people filed into the Gardenia Center to support a new nonprofit organization in Sandpoint: PFLAG. The Sandpoint chapter...
By Reader Staff For a town that is surrounded by outlying national forests and public lands, Sandpoint has only a few undeveloped natural areas that are close by and available to city residents without...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Quest Aircraft Company has announced Samuel Hill is planning to retire as CEO after Jan. 1, 2017. Skies Magazine reported that the transition has been long planned as part...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff After years of work, local conservation activists are celebrating a newly-introduced federal bill to enshrine the Scotchman Peaks as wilderness. Introduced last week by U.S. Sen. Jim Risch, the...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist From 2015 to 2016, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, California’s Gross Domestic Product rose 4.1 percent while Texas dropped 1.4 percent—right at the edge of recession. Once...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Brought to you by the Sandpoint Library Eggs are one of our most versatile foods, and also the key to the survival of most living species on the planet....
By Dianne Smith Reader Columnist When we first realize our elderly parent needs help, we are confronted with our own aging and mortality. We look in the mirror and see our wrinkles, gray hair...
By Mary Haley Reader Book Reviewer I review children’s and young adult books, so when Sandy Compton lent me his new Archer MacClehan book, the second in the series, I struggled with how to...
By Scarlette Quille Reader Columnist My life in December is basically a shit-storm of glitter, pine needles and vodka. There are parts that I enjoy more than others (mostly the vodka). But for as...
