The Sandpoint Eater: It’s how I roll
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist I made it through my isolation birthday, sans friends and fanfare. Next on the calendar of events was Easter. Easter! Over the years, I have watched the others agonize...
Author: Lyndsie Kiebert
The Plastic Challenge
By Gabrielle Duebendorfer Reader Contributor I started writing this article in January on a gorgeous beach. I was inspired by the universal paradox of beauty and ugliness; summer and winter; happiness and sadness —...
The year that never was – Part 2
Editor’s note: We reached out to a few graduating seniors at Sandpoint High School to ask how the coronavirus has affected their final year of secondary education. We asked each student how their lives...
Wildlife: Friend or faux pas?
By Hannah Combs Special to the Reader Courtesy of the Bonner County Historical Society and Museum Since the last of the snow melted, I have been scattering small piles of birdseed around the lawn,...
Mad About Science: Colors and pigments
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist There’s lots of gloom and doom that comes with isolation, all furthered by dumb-dumbs doing dumb things to get attention on social media. Rather than looking into scary stuff...
Bits ‘n’ Pieces – April 23, 2020
By Lorraine H. Marie Reader Columnist East, west or beyond, sooner or later events elsewhere may have a local impact, which COVID-19 has illustrated so well. A recent sampling, with Earth Day and climate...
Earth Day at 50
By Phil Hough Reader Contributor A new, or novel, virus has paused our normal activities with other people. Group events and gatherings are on hold for now. Stay-at-home work feels unusual and awkward for...
Misery loves company
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff I would have attended the “Disobey Idaho” protest, which saw Idahoans by the hundreds — maybe more than a thousand — gather April 17 in Boise and Sandpoint to...
Heather Scott’s ‘Holocaust,’ ‘Little Hitler’ comments draw international attention
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff If Blanchard Republican Rep. Heather Scott was hungry for headlines, she now has a cornucopia on which to dine. The world has taken notice of her recent remarks comparing...
Court denies appeal in smelter land sale case
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The Division III Court of Appeals in Washington state released an opinion April 21 affirming the legality of the sale of land from the Public Utility District in Pend...
