Sticks and stones
Words of the Year provide a long view at the bubbling yeast of humanity By Ben OlsonReader Staff In 2003, Merriam-Webster began declaring a Word of the Year because it was the most-searched definition...
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Mad About Science: Unexplained mysteries
By Brenden BobbyReader Columnist We’ve spent October exploring all sorts of unexplained mysteries; and, as Halloween descends upon us, we look at our final batch — the oddest and most intriguing unexplained mysteries I’ve...
Trophy hunting
Elk season and volleyball season coalesce By Lyndsie Kiebert-CareyReader Contributor For an elk hunt to end with a harvest, a lot has to go right. Of course there are elements within the hunter’s control:...
Slop new world
By Ben OlsonReader Staff For the first time in the Reader’s history, we ran the candidate questionnaire responses that we publish before every election through an AI-detection software called Pangram. We were surprised and...
Under the city of love
A brief history of the Paris Catacombs By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff In the grand scheme of things, the catacombs beneath Paris are a relatively recent creation — younger, in fact, than most of its...
Mad about Science: Doppelgängers and weird coincidences
By Brenden BobbyReader Staff History is full of weird coincidences. Enough people exist for a certain length of time and you are bound to have some expected, albeit unusual, occurrences. It’s just statistics at...
Emily Articulated: Lacy and Jan
By Emily EricksonReader Columnist There’s a trope about Millennials: We love it when our plans get canceled. We get to stay home instead of attending the social engagement we agreed to during a period...
Why should you care about roadless areas?
By Brad SmithReader Contributor Some of my fondest childhood memories involve hiking to pristine alpine destinations like Harrison Lake, catching cutthroat trout in a secret stream and seeing a rare mountain caribou in the...
JAMCO Comedy Series brings troupe of NYC, Boise comedians to Panida
By Reader Staff The JAMCO Comedy Series has been elevating established and up-and-coming stand-up comedians since 2006, and Saturday, Oct. 24, founder Jamal Harrington will do it all over again with a 7 p.m....
CANDIDATE QUESTIONNAIRE
2026 general Election By Reader Staff Before each election, the Sandpoint Reader reaches out to candidates in contested legislative and local races to ask questions about how they would represent the constituents in the...
