County receives grant for PulsePoint
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Bonner County commissioners voted Dec. 2 to accept a $25,000 grant to fund PulsePoint — a smartphone application designed to get CPR-certified citizens to the scene of a cardiac...
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Council sends Cedar Street housing development back to P&Z
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff A 15-unit multi-family housing complex planned for the 1700 block of Cedar Street is still in limbo after the Sandpoint City Council voted Dec. 4 to send the proposal...
Snowmobile access through Stimson Lumber land threatened
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Bonner and Boundary counties are working together to spread awareness of responsible motorized winter recreation practices after Stimson Lumber brought attention to property damage in an area where the...
Festival names interim E.D., office manager
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The first time Ali Baranski experienced The Festival at Sandpoint, much less Sandpoint itself, she was crossing the Long Bridge to attend a Michael Franti show in 2010. She’d...
A grain of salt: Gifting yourself down-time
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist It’s that time of year again. We’re obliged to parties and gatherings and second helpings. We’ve got relatives to relate to, colleagues to Secret Santa with and everything tastes...
What goes around comes around
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The Recording Industry Association of America noted in its mid-year 2019 report that vinyl records earned $224.1 million in the first half of the year, which is closing in...
A delicious decade
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff As the Dish at Dover Bay restaurant enters its 10th year in business, owner Gary Peitz and executive chef Eddie Sneva have plenty to celebrate. For one thing, rarely...
‘The saloon will never come back’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It is a well known fact that Sandpoint’s early history was rough and tumble. When researchers excavated the original townsite on the Sand Creek peninsula preceding work on the...
The Sandpoint Eater: Kitchen comfort
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist As much as I love my travels to foreign destinations, exploring fascinating new (to me) cultures and sampling unknown foods that amuse my palate, our old friend Dorothy from...
A striking snowmobile film
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff What the late, great Warren Miller did for ski movies, Thunderstruck Films has been doing for snowmobiling with more than 20 films since 2000. The Colorado-based company helped pioneer...
