The office of the Idaho secretary of state issued a communication to all 44 county clerks in the state late May 22, informing them that the deadline for absentee ballot requests in the upcoming...
Only two of the 70 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Panhandle Health District are still being monitored, the district reported May 22. Of those, 66 were in Kootenai County and four were in...
A new Sandpoint Reader dropped today, and the cover is in the running for cutest ever. Find the flip-page digital version here. Idaho logged 28 new “confirmed and probable” cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the...
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist I have decided that living with trauma is kind of like having emotional fibromyalgia. Some days, everything hurts and all the inexplicable tender parts feel raw and confused. The...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The debut solo album from longtime Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams, Petals for Armor, is her ultimate arrival. “Alexa, do you have anything that’s mad, sad, horny and hopeful?” Williams...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Nostalgia, like junk food, is excellent when done right, but can be a disaster when slopped together. Whether you are a nostalgia junkie or a cold-hearted snake who never...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff When I brought my then-girlfriend (now-wife of almost 14 years) to Sandpoint for the first time in 2002 or thereabouts, she said that my childhood must have been like...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Before I entered the exciting and glamorous world of small town newspaper publishing, I worked as a bar manager and bartender in Sandpoint (R.I.P., Downtown Crossing). During those wild...
By Hannah Combs Reader Contributor My first spring in Sandpoint, I visited a friend at her cabin and she wouldn’t let me leave without a visit to “the big tree.” The property behind her...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff A YouTuber named Preston Reid recently produced a video titled “Different types of Zoomers,” in which he demonstrated more than a dozen different personalities you’ll encounter during Zoom calls....
