Facts on local growth
By Jeremy Grimm Reader Contributor Ben, I appreciated the reflection provided in your opinion piece “Embrace the shoulder season… while we still can,” published on Sept. 1, 2022. You captured many of the observations...
Author: Lyndsie Kiebert
County plans secondary access point to Whiskey Jack Road
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Bonner County commissioners voted unanimously Aug. 30 in favor of contracting surveying services to plan a route for a secondary access to Whiskey Jack Road in West Oden Bay....
LPO drawdown begins Sept. 19
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff The fall drawdown of Lake Pend Oreille will commence on Monday, Sept. 19, marking the beginning of the slow season for local waterways. According to a news release from...
A Few Thoughts … On artistic types in the wilderness
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist Each year, a backpacking trip into a nearby wilderness is undertaken by certain artistic types (ATs), most often plein air painters. ATs follow “guide” Bearly-Seen Svensson (not his real...
Summer Music Series ends season with a local lineup
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Mattox Farm Productions is wrapping up the 2022 season of the Sandpoint Summer Music Series with an ultra-local show starting at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 8, with Harold’s...
Generations of treasures
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Through its many iterations and locations over the past 15 years, the core purpose of Sandpoint’s Funky Junk Antique and Craft Festival has remained intact: to celebrate traditions and,...
Sand Creek Regatta is what being a ‘local’ is all about
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Each September for the past couple years, Sandpoint has come alive with local spirit at the Sand Creek Regatta. Usually under a drizzling rain, Sandpoint locals gather with truckloads...
‘Hold on, pain ends’
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Sandpoint will see its seventh annual Walk for Hope event on Sunday, Sept. 4, as participants take off from Dog Beach at 5 p.m. and walk the length of...
Embrace the shoulder season… while we still can
By Ben Olson Reader Staff You hear it in conversations at bars and restaurants all over town. Locals complain to one another about the summer tourist struggles but, when someone brings up September, their...
‘Idaho nice’
By Dick Sonnichsen Reader Contributor A friend of mine from Minnesota brags about the friendliness of the people of his state, a concept the inhabitants call “Minnesota Nice.” “Minnesota Nice” is a cultural stereotype...
