Mad About Science: Common phobias
By Brenden Bobby Reader Staff We are all scared of things. Losing our keys, the death of a loved one, or that little terrier that’s barking some horrible insults about your mother in dog...
Author: Lyndsie Kiebert
‘When you protect everybody you protect yourself’
By Cynthia Dalsing Reader Contributor I wanted to write this article when I heard that more than 400 health care workers have died from COVID-19. This struck me — these were my colleagues, the...
Sandpoint SummerFest cancels 2020 season
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Organizers for the annual music concert Sandpoint SummerFest confirmed July 8 that the event has been canceled for 2020 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “It comes with an...
Emily Articulated: Lessons of the Sorting Hat
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist When things get hard to process in the real world, I often escape to fantasy worlds for respite, coming out on the other side of a magical book, podcast...
Anti-smelter groups will take land sale to WA Supreme Court
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Citizen groups opposed to the Newport, Wash., silicon smelter have announced they will appeal to the Washington Supreme Court in a case against the Pend Oreille County Public Utility...
Survey results: Most want dogs at City Beach, with restrictions
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Prompted in part by the ongoing debate over how best to manage the goose population at City Beach, the city of Sandpoint floated a survey in June asking area...
Budgets on local, state level shift to meet COVID-19 challenges
By Zach Hagadone and Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Nearly four months after the state of Idaho began responding in earnest to the global COVID-19 pandemic, Sandpoint City Administrator Jennifer Stapleton provided some additional detail...
A few thoughts… on patriotism
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist In the film Night at the Museum II, museum guard Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) and come-back-to-life Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams) lead enlivened historical characters in a battle against evil...
The Sandpoint Eater: Mix and mask
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist It’s hard to wrap my head around the past few months — silly me, thinking this COVID-19 pandemic that blew into our lives, wreaking havoc on a blustery day...
‘Batman Begins’ playing at the Panida
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There have been a lot of great movies in the Batman franchise. There have also been some real doozies. Batman Begins, released in 2005 and directed by Christopher Nolan,...
