Decision 2019 Candidates’ Forum
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff A week before the Nov. 5 election, candidates for Ponderay, Lake Pend Oreille School District board of trustees and Sandpoint city office gathered Oct. 29 at the Sandpoint Community...
Author: Lyndsie Kiebert
Festival announces 2020 concert dates
By Reader Staff In an Oct. 30 post on Facebook, the Festival at Sandpoint announced its 2020 concert dates, providing some indication that business would continue as usual — or mostly as usual —...
October surprise(s)
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Political reporters have long called it an “October surprise” — a piece of news coming on the verge of an election with the potential to alter its outcome. Typically...
The Sandpoint Eater: Meeting Martha
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist Recently, I took a weekend trip to southern California to host a dinner for clients. My eldest daughter Ryanne joined me, and it was a rare getaway for my...
Candidate Questionnaire: Sandpoint City Council & Sandpoint Mayor
As we do every year, the Reader is offering a candidate questionnaire to help better inform you about the candidates. This week, we focus on Sandpoint City Council and Sandpoint mayor. Next week, Ponderay...
A grain of salt: Illness is not a weakness
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist Somehow, perhaps with the transition into the Industrial Revolution and hourly wages, Americans seem to have lost compassion for the unwell. Working hard for long hours each day and...
Folk-grass album release concert Saturday
By Ben Olson Reader Staff For the past 18 years, singer-songwriter Kevin Brown has hosted a bluegrass radio show on Spokane Public Radio called Front Porch Bluegrass. In those almost two decades, Brown has...
The Death of Dick Long: A quirky dramady just right for Halloween
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff All right, who wants to get weird? It is the week before Halloween, after all. The Panida Theater is screening one of those movies that lives somewhere between drama...
Write behind the mic
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Sandpoint has long been home to lively community open mics, the most recent of which is the Pop-Up Open Mic Series organized by the Sandpoint Literary Collective. “SLC started...
‘We sell fun’: The 219 Lounge turns 85
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The 219 Lounge has been many things to many people. It has also been many bars. Opened in October 1934 on Pine Street as the Old Bohemia Club, it...
