Celebrating the past – and the future
By Ben Olson Reader Staff A year ago, on Aug. 12, the staff at the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint took the first step of many toward establishing itself as an epicenter of art and...
Category: Business
Comfort food for all
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff New Sandpoint food truck Moxie’s was born from a love for comfort food, frustration with restaurants and pandemic-induced job loss. Vegetarians and partners Angela Woods and Taylor Ward grew...
Keeping their goals in sight
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Before Dr. Nate Harrell opened Pend Oreille Vision Care in Sandpoint a decade ago, he was fresh out of optometry school, dreaming of a place to call home. “He...
New owners on tap
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Jon Hagadone never wanted to be a bartender. When he and Vicki Reich launched Idaho Pour Authority in late-May 2013, both envisioned it as a craft beer retail store...
New kids on the bridge
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff After 12 years at the Cedar Street Bistro, Tim and Manuela Frazier are bidding farewell to the days of crafting crepes, sandwiches, gelato and beyond from scratch. “It needs...
In the thick of it
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Tucked beside the busy Sandpoint Post Office parking lot and always wafting the scent of roasting coffee, Monarch Mountain Coffee has been known to sling tasty drinks and offer...
Hanging up the rollers after 33 years
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The interior house paint of the year in 1987 was called “barely-there pink.” The color of the year for 2019 was known as “blueprint,” advertised as a mid-tone that’s...
Sandpoint holiday events light up downtown
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Downtown Sandpoint is a magical place during the holidays. After three months of construction along First Avenue and Cedar Street, the city of Sandpoint took the fencing down between...
Support downtown retailers this holiday season
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Imagine for a moment what Sandpoint would be like without our downtown shopping district. Driving through other towns across the country, it’s hard to miss the fact that most...
The quest for balance
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Jeff Pufnock was several years into a career in immunology — specifically, searching for a cancer vaccine — when he realized Western medicine wasn’t approaching healing in a way...
