‘Part of the family’
Kathy Chambers shares the joy of hosting foreign exchange students through Sandpoint Rotary By Ben OlsonReader Staff After hosting foreign exchange students in her Sandpoint home over the years, Kathy Chambers now hopes to...
Category: Community Happenings
Uncommonly beautiful style at The Hive
By Reader Staff At the onset, the music of The Sweet Lillies is heartfelt and collaborative. The Boulder, Colo. quartet conjures a sonic amalgamation between members Julie Gussaroff, Becca Bisque, JJ Murphy and Jones...
Summit Schweitzer at the annual Race the Wolf
By Reader Staff Enough “fun runs” and easy, paved jaunts — it’s time for a race that tests the strength of your legs and your will. Priest Lake Race’s Race the Wolf returns on...
Festival at Sandpoint welcomes new director of community and strategy
By Reader Staff The Festival at Sandpoint recently announced Caroline Hawkins would serve as the nonprofit arts organization’s new director of Community and Strategy, which was created in February to partially replace the executive...
Thy humble beginnings
The beloved Renaissance Faire returns to Sandpoint By Ben OlsonReader Staff From its beginnings in a field in 2017, the Sandpoint Renaissance Faire has grown into one of the most popular local events of...
Snacks at Midnight headline Festival fundraiser at The Hive
By Reader Staff The Festival at Sandpoint is hosting a special fundraiser Saturday, June 13 featuring local band Snacks at Midnight at The Hive (207 N. First Ave., in downtown Sandpoint). Doors open at...
Southside Elementary students experience week-long fiddle residency
By Reader Staff Southside Elementary students explored a new style of music with the Fiddle Camp Program, a special, weeklong fiddle residency taught by traveling musician and educator Kelly Thibodeaux. Children in Kindergarten through...
Marcella Nelson: Short in stature but big in service and commitment
By Reader Staff Longtime area residents are well familiar with Marcella Nelson, who celebrated her 97th birthday in October 2025. Though famously petite, Nelson has played an outsized role in the Ponderay and Sandpoint...
101 Women award $11K grant to Priest Lake Food Bank
By Reader Staff Local philanthropic organization 101 Women Sandpoint announced the recipient of its 2026 spring grant cycle, awarding $11,000 to the Priest Lake Food Bank. The food bank plans to use grant dollars...
Sandemonium pandemonium at the library
By Reader Staff Sandemonium, the perfect Sandpoint-sized comic con, is back Saturday, May 30 for one of two nerdy parties. The celebration of fan culture, science fiction, fantasy, games and everything else that makes...
