The weird and wonderful world of yard sales in North Idaho
By Susan Drinkard Reader Contributor I started going to garage sales when I moved to North Idaho about 40 years ago. I think it’s great fun and also a “ministry” of sorts. I come...
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Mad About Science: The human brain
By Ben Olson Reader Staff We humans like to think we have some pretty big brains, but the truth is that size doesn’t matter for intelligence. What defines intelligence is the brain-to-body-mass ratio as...
Crews containing Bernard, Callahan fires; now working West Branch fire
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Fire crews working the two major fires in the Bonner County area are steadily achieving containment, though a new blaze reported Sept. 16 is now burning about nine miles...
Accommodating the commode
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff When U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials visited the Springy Point Campground in Sagle this past spring to perform a regular facilities check, they came across an unwelcome surprise...
City files motion to recover costs in Festival gun suit
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Two weeks after a district judge ruled in favor of the city of Sandpoint in the lawsuit brought by Bonner County over The Festival at Sandpoint’s no-weapons policy, the...
Sandpoint’s funky float
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff It’s time to strap together a makeshift watercraft and think buoyant thoughts, as the Greater Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce hosts the Sand Creek Regatta: a race “put together by...
Thermo-nuclear family
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff In the immediate days following Sept. 11, 2001, I sat for a junior-year class called “Apocalyptic Literature” at then-Albertson College of Idaho. I remember the professor dropped a pile...
Fifty years along the shore
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Contributor Since its donation to the city of Sandpoint by the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1922, City Beach has drawn tourists from around the world. The Edgewater Resort has housed...
‘The city of our dreams,’ one school at a time
By Chris Corpus and Hannah Combs Reader Contributors She lay in bed, musing about the churches, schools and civic centers that would one day replace the wild land that surrounded her cabin in every...
Mad About Science: COVID-19 misinformation
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist This week’s subject was suggested by the library’s lifelong learning coordinator, Mike Bauer. Thanks, Mike! COVID-19 is a volatile subject right now. It’s still a relatively new disease and...
