Dirt-y Secrets: Summer is a busy season in the garden
By Ranel Hanson Reader Columnist “Hot fun in the summertime!” — Sly Stone If you are a gardener, you live for summer. I am speaking for myself and anyone who loves to get in...
Category: Arts & Culture
Mad About Science: Extinction event
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist We’ve all learned about one major mass extinction event in school. The end of the dinosaurs, gone in a singular dramatic flash! That’s not exactly true. While dinosaur extinction...
‘One heck of a party’
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Mattox Farm Productions is now officially managing Sandpoint’s Heartwood Center, and is launching into this new era the best way founder Robb Talbott knows how: with a high-energy bluegrass...
Music for the highs and lows
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Mt. Joy’s speedy trajectory from its 2016 formation to current-day indie rock notoriety is indicative of how quickly the band’s music has resonated with audiences across genres. With poignant...
Living ‘all in’
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Those in North Idaho who love country music benefit from one of the genre’s most beloved subcategories: songs about being on the water. Whether it’s the legendary Craig Morgan...
Library introduces new virtual reality flight simulator
By Ben Olson Reader Staff After flying more than 90 combat missions in Vietnam, Barney Ballard gave up flying in 1974. Thanks to a new piece of technology at the Sandpoint branch of the...
The Pro-Voice Project seeks submissions for upcoming abortion stories production
By Reader Staff In an effort to bring the subject of abortion out of the realm of shadow and shame, two local women are spearheading a project to tell area residents’ personal stories of...
Poster child
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff This year’s Festival at Sandpoint poster couldn’t have come at a better time — and from a better artist. Longtime local photographer Woods Wheatcroft has spent decades as a...
Mad About Science: 7B before people
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist I first learned about the Great Missoula Floods when I was in elementary school in the ’90s. I listened in wide-eyed wonder to my teacher describing the events of...
Everything you need to know about the Festival at Sandpoint
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The Festival at Sandpoint’s iconic white tent will soon rise into the air at War Memorial Field, and locals and tourists alike will gather for nine exciting nights under...
