‘Tis the season for fall beers
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff I have not always been a beer person. Maybe that’s because the parties of my youth played host only to Coors Light, or because in college I took a...
Author: Lyndsie Kiebert
Schweitzer eyes Nov. 27 opening, looks forward to hefty snow season
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff With an early snowfall in mid-October, the 2020-’21 winter season is shaping up to deliver healthy accumulation — at least in the heights. According to the venerable Farmers’ Almanac,...
Preparing your body for ski season
By Ben Olson Reader Staff For some, a late October snowfall brings sour faces and groans. For the rest of us who don’t walk around with an “I smell poop” face 24/7, it elicits...
A few thoughts on COVID-19, masks and manliness
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist As we approach our national Election Day, polls report that Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by 35 points among women, but only by two points among men. The good...
An unexpected love
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Brittany Jean has always been involved in music one way or another, be it sitting at a piano at age 6, starting voice lessons at age 12 or performing...
Eat the rich… before they eat you
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff There comes a time — many, many times, in fact — when poor people have had enough of rich peoples’ bullshit. The United States’ insurgency notwithstanding, as it was...
Previewing ‘A Horn is Born’
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Sometimes even the most innocuous objects get their time to shine. That’s the story behind the new illustrated children’s book A Horn is Born, by Sandpoint’s Bill Borders, on...
Rascal’s visit
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff While others walk around with a distinct and unsettling ghost story in their memories, I am nearly without. Perhaps I should count myself fortunate in that regard. My creepiest...
A brush with death at the museum
By Hannah Combs Reader Contributor “D13, shelf 4; D13, shelf 4,” I muttered to myself as I hurried through the archives. I needed to pull one more artifact for tomorrow’s presentation before closing up....
Voting: Encourage a generational difference
By Paul Graves Reader Contributor I offer a challenge to readers of the Reader: If you have adult children, grandchildren of voting age, or younger friends of voting age, please take this message seriously. ...
