Less Dixie, more vocal
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Little girls who grew up listening to country music in the late 1990s became deeply familiar with the three-part harmony and soaring fiddle sounds of The Dixie Chicks. Instant...
Author: Lyndsie Kiebert
Dream Festival
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff I’m a pragmatic man, so when the Reader editorial staff came up with the idea of conjuring a “Dream Festival” lineup, my mind first flew to impossibilities before I...
Funding The Festival
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff For the past 38 years, music lovers from around the region have marked early August on their entertainment calendars in anticipation of The Festival at Sandpoint. This year, owing...
POAC plans for a ‘successful and safe’ Arts and Crafts Fair
By Kathy Hubbard Reader Contributor Some things will change and some things will stay the same as the 48th annual Arts and Crafts Fair fills the streets of downtown Sandpoint on Saturday, Aug. 8...
Comfort food for all
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff New Sandpoint food truck Moxie’s was born from a love for comfort food, frustration with restaurants and pandemic-induced job loss. Vegetarians and partners Angela Woods and Taylor Ward grew...
Keeping their goals in sight
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Before Dr. Nate Harrell opened Pend Oreille Vision Care in Sandpoint a decade ago, he was fresh out of optometry school, dreaming of a place to call home. “He...
Mad About Science
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Philadelphia — home of the Phillies, the Liberty Bell and the Fresh Prince. In 1793, it was also the epicenter of one of the worst epidemics America has ever...
Punching the keys
By Ben Olson Reader Staff My dad kept a small office upstairs in an alcove outside my childhood room in Westmond. From his ornate roll-top desk, dad would type correspondence on his typewriter, filling...
Fighting words
By Idaho House and Senate Democrats Special to the Reader Republican politicians have had supermajority control of the Legislature and every statewide office for decades. Under their governance, Idaho has sunk to 51st place...
Emily Articulated: ‘Since whens’ and sandcastles
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist The porch boards creaked beneath the curve of my rocking chair, chiming in with the tunes and chirps of birds greeting a new day. Long beams of soft sunlight...
