City Council roundup: Train bridges and trash bills
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The Sandpoint City Council took up a number of old business items Sept. 18, chief among them pushback to a recent decision by the U.S. Coast Guard regarding the...
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Wentworth, master thief
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Somewhere on the dark, quiet streets of south Sandpoint, Wentworth the cat is on the prowl, searching for another pair of flip-flops to steal. The sandal-stealing feline, owned by...
Mad About Science: Wild Bacteria
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist When we think about bacteria, we think about soaping it off our bodies as quickly as we can. A clean body is a body without bacteria. That’s a load...
Lake level timeline announced
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Lake Pend Oreille will remain at summer pool through Sept. 18, after which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will start a gradual drawdown until reaching winter lake elevation...
Candidates and ballot measures announced for 2019 local elections
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’ll be an eventful election season, as Tuesday, Nov. 5 marks the date when Idaho voters cast their ballots for city council members, mayors, school district trustees and, in...
Sound and fury
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Despite the sound and fury surrounding the Festival at Sandpoint’s policy banning weapons at the publicly-owned War Memorial Field, city officials said they still haven’t received any paperwork indicating...
Tabletop gaming in the age of laptops, desktops, tablets and smartphones
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist When I was growing up, tabletop gaming like “Dungeons & Dragons” was a lot like a trip to Las Vegas: You had a ton of fun with a lot...
Through a glass (not so) darkly
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Read enough reviews of the recently-released, hotly-anticipated Netflix series “Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance” and some central themes emerge. First, it’s visually amazing. The prequel/reboot/obsessive homage to Jim Henson’s...
Archaeological find near Grangeville could rewrite history
By Ben Olson Reader Staff For upwards of 16,000 years, some of the earliest evidence of human habitation in the Americas lay buried in Idaho, waiting to be discovered. According to research published Aug....
P&Z tables decision on Cedar St. housing complex amid neighborhood opposition
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Residents of the west Sandpoint neighborhood comprised of Madison Avenue, Willow Drive and Lincoln Avenue turned out en masse Sept. 3 to oppose a 15-unit, multi-family development planned for...
