Mad About Science: Arquebuses, blunderbusses and muskets
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist We’ve explored the history of firearms before, but several thousand years is hard to cover in a page. Today, we’re going to take a look at some of the...
Author: Lyndsie Kiebert
Designing for people, not cars
By Reid Weber Reader Contributor The city of Sandpoint adopted a “multimodal transportation plan” in 2021, which illustrates general goals, layered maps, objectives and concept drawings of new intersections. It includes depictions that prioritize...
Festival gun ban lawsuit returns on appeal before Idaho Supreme Court
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff An appeal of the 2021 District Court decision in favor of the city of Sandpoint and Festival at Sandpoint over the legality of a weapons ban at the summer...
City Beach goose hunt approved for second year
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Sandpoint Police Chief Corey Coon went all in for the City Beach goose hunt at the Feb. 1 regular meeting of the Sandpoint City Council, where he delivered a...
BoCo Zoom access ended, P&Z boards remain separate
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Despite being slated as an executive session item to be discussed at the end of a packed agenda, Bonner County commissioners at their business meeting Feb. 7 jumped right...
On buzzer beaters
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff It was like the climax of a sports movie, only less probable. I was volunteering to help coach a girls’ junior high basketball game when a divine combination of...
Michael Franti and Spearhead with SOJA to return to the Festival At Sandpoint
By Reader Staff The Festival at Sandpoint announced the return of a crowd favorite for Thursday, Aug. 3; Michael Franti and Spearhead with SOJA. Franti and Spearhead are no strangers to the Festival at...
Little big death
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The thing about apocalypses is that they happen to everyone, and anything that happens to everyone all at once really freaks us out. I suspect this has something to...
Outside the stacks
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff The East Bonner County Library District has already proved itself committed to expanding the library’s reach beyond the walls of its brick-and-mortar branches by offering services through the Bookmobile,...
Reimagining modern nursing care
By Patty Hutchens Reader Contributor As a registered nurse, Sandpoint native Kelli Hansen has cared for countless people her entire career, and done so with deep compassion and a love of what she does. ...
