‘A work of love’
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff For Sandpoint author Sharon Kreider, storytelling is not just an endeavor of joy, it’s a calling. “It just wouldn’t leave me alone,” she said. “These stories that I want...
Category: Arts & Culture
Willy Wonka play auditions Sept. 20-21
By Reader Staff It’s been a long time in the making, as the coronavirus pandemic put a halt to the initial rehearsals and planned performances of Growing Dreams Productions’ Willy Wonka, The Musical. Local...
Fun and feedback
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff The first Ponderay Neighbor Day, held in 2017, was meant to be a one-time way for the city of Ponderay and Friends of the Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail to...
Emily Articulated
By Emily Erickson Reader Staff I’ve been thinking about my high school English class a lot lately and the care my teacher, Mrs. Auch, took in instructing us on the proper way to write...
Mad About Science: Colonizing Mars, Part 1
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Our subject today is too large to confine to a single page. Fortunately, the crew at the Reader tolerates my nonsense when I try to pull off something as...
Panida announces hiring of new managing director
By Reader Staff After a nearly two-month search, the Panida board of directors announced Sept. 14 that Veronica Lynn Knowlton has been hired as the managing director of the theater. Knowlton comes to...
Back of the Book: Thank you, and you, and you
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff After my recent wedding, I took it upon myself to handwrite thank-you notes to everyone who attended or helped with the big event. This was not my original intention....
Instrumental improvement
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Parents, by and large, want their kids to be better than them in all the ways that they lack; and, already, mine are my betters in more areas than...
POAC announces 2021-’22 Performing Arts season
By Reader Staff The Pend Oreille Arts Council announced its first full season of live performances since the COVID-19 pandemic cut short the 2019-’20 season. POAC’s 2021-’22 season will include eclectic performances ranging from...
Festival at Sandpoint recap
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Of all the words to describe the 2021 Festival at Sandpoint, “transition” seems to be the most appropriate. Between the global pandemic, a major change from natural grass to...
