City Council roundup: Train bridges and trash bills
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The Sandpoint City Council took up a number of old business items Sept. 18, chief among them pushback to a recent decision by the U.S. Coast Guard regarding the...
Author: Lyndsie Kiebert
Bits ‘n’ Pieces
By Lorraine H. Marie Reader Columnist East, west or beyond, sooner or later events elsewhere may have a local impact. A recent sampling: People in Ethiopia planted 350 million tree seedlings in 12 hours,...
The write stuff
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff There’s a myth about writers, silently toiling in solitude to turn out a perfect page of prose. There’s truth to it — writing can be a lonely business —...
The roaring now
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Most people would place classic swing tunes a good distance from electronic beats on the musical genre spectrum. Not Carey Rayburn. The classically trained trumpeter always had a love...
Brothers in harps
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The Tonedevil Brothers — David and Anthony Powell — don’t just play their instruments. In a lot of cases, they’ve been familiar with their guitar’s wood grain since it...
One decade, two brothers, three cafes
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff One with an extensive background in coffee and the other an experienced businessman, two brothers came together exactly a decade ago to create a product and place now ingrained...
Ellen Weissman: Celebrating five years with the Sandpoint Senior Center
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Ellen Weissman passes an important milestone Sunday, Sept. 15: five years of working as the executive director for Sandpoint Area Seniors, Inc. The job, which Weissman throws herself into...
Island time
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Like any good obsession, Charity Luthy’s affinity for mid-century art and aesthetics started randomly and quickly grew out of all proportion. “I got really into the 1950s vintage look...
Scenic Half Marathon: A run with a view
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Take your mark, runners, it’s time for the annual Scenic Half Marathon. Presented by the Greater Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce, the route traverses Lake Pend Oreille over the iconic...
CAL celebrates 40 years
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Forty years ago, the Community Assistance League was formed by a small group of philanthropists eager to create a nonprofit where local women could affect real change in Sandpoint....
