The READER celebrates one year
It’s hard to imagine that one year ago this week, Cameron and I were scrambling together the return issue of the Sandpoint Reader. Seriously, how is it possible an entire year has flown by?...
Author: Ben Olson
Evans Brothers grabs another award
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff It’s been a good year for Evans Brothers. Fresh off winning a third-place award in Coffee Fest’s Best Coffeehouse in America competition, the Sandpoint favorite grabbed another award last...
Want to be in a parade?
What’s better than watching the Winter Carnival Parade of Lights? Being in the parade, of course! The Sandpoint Business Improvement District (BID) is looking for parade participants in this year’s parade, themed “Flurry of...
Harvel pleads not guilty
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Norilina Harvel, the former CFO of Bonner General Health accused of embezzling $220,000, was arraigned in court this morning. She plead not guilty to District Judge Barbara Buchanan. According...
Mayor, commissioner square off on refugees
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff If any symbolic figureheads have emerged in the local debate over refugee resettlement, they’re Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Rognstad and Bonner County Commissioner Glen Bailey. Bailey and his fellow commissioners...
The Straight Poop:
By Drake the Dog Reader Staff Where am I taking my humans on this first Saturday of 2016? My Black lab mix, rescue pup friend Pepper has been barkin’ up a storm about La...
Changing Your Mind:
By Suzen Fiskin Reader Columnist You’re going about your day minding your own business. You go to the mailbox and discover that you spaced out on paying your credit card bill. Fill in your...
Five easy steps to gladden somebody’s life
By Karen Seashore Reader Contributor I speak up for letters. I proclaim their power. Letters tucked into envelopes. Pages you can hold in your hands and hear the paper’s light crinkle. This call is...
Year round golf in North Idaho? Awesome.
By Ben Olson Reader Staff It’s tough being a golf nut in North Idaho. First, we’ve got these long, cold winters that seem to last forever. Then, once the snow is gone in the...
SHS graduate’s novel invites a dreamlike revery of North Idaho
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Good Night, Idaho is not the first fictional town from the Idaho panhandle that Keith Lee Morris has used in his fiction, but it may be the oddest. A...
