Category: Featured

Kinderhaven 2.0

By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff For 25 years, Kinderhaven served as a physical haven, sheltering local kids in need as they outnumbered available foster homes. That changed in May, when the longtime institution closed...

Misery is off the chopping block

By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff The Oct. 11, 2018 edition of the Sandpoint Reader features candidate interviews, news of a bobcat sighting on the Long Bridge and an article announcing the cancellation of a...

Nøkken: A Halloween story

By Jeff Keenan Reader Contributor The water is too cold for visitors and she understands your reluctance to visit. Nonetheless, she wishes you would see her. She has promised to fix her hair if...

Emptying the bucket

By Ben Olson Reader Staff Genres are helpful to narrow down music styles into convenient buckets. But what happens when those buckets are flipped over, emptied of their contents, placed upside down and banged...

Homegrown science

By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Everyone knows that an apple a day keeps the doctor away. As it turns out, samples of a few dozen apples on a Saturday afternoon keep agricultural science alive...

On the elk’s terms

By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff I nearly failed hunter’s ed.  At least, that’s what it felt like at the time, as a 9-year-old girl who accidentally let her finger slide inside the trigger guard...