By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Members of the Sandpoint Planning and Zoning Commission approved a conditional use permit application June 7, moving a proposed mixed-used development one step closer to bringing more than 130...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff The hard work is about the pay off for Suzuki String Academy students, who will be showing off their performance chops at the Panida Theater on Sunday, June 5...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Like many origin stories, Karie Lee Knoke’s love for primitive skills and backcountry survival began with a book: My Side of the Mountain, by Jean Craighead George. The novel,...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s hard to understand how the phrase “in a pickle” came to signify an unpleasant situation. There’s nothing unpleasant whatsoever about a pickle — or anything that’s been pickled,...
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist The far side of three long-delayed, back-to-back international trips feels indescribable. Some long days were filled with uncertainty in these past two years. It seemed no one would ever...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff You’ll probably never see any pristine lake scenes or frolicking deer in Jacob Greiff’s artwork. The 21-year-old Sandpoint artist prides himself on creating paintings that live well off the...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The so-called “Timber Wars” are generally described as having occurred in the 1980s and ’90s. It was a period of conflict waged in both the woods and the courtroom...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Staff Planet Earth’s closest celestial neighbor has a lot in common with the big blue marble we call home. While it’s true that there isn’t any liquid water on the...
By Adrian Murillo Reader Contributor There are some crimes that are so monstrous it hurls you far beyond your fear of the perpetrators or those agitators who urge them on. Staying silent is not...
By Tim Bearly Reader Contributor “Welcome brothers and sisters, to the Temple of the Invisible Hand of Adam Smith; a sacred place of worship, where our glorious free-market system can be praised and upheld...
