Category: Featured

Dine Around Sandpoint is back!

By Ben Olson Reader Staff Diners, start your engines. Dine Around Sandpoint is back for its eighth year, and this year it’s bigger than ever. The premise is simple: dine at one of 31...

Range War and Peace:

By Zach Hagadone Reader Contributor It has been nearly six months since lightning sparked a fire in the sagebrush steppe along the Idaho-Oregon border northwest of Silver City. The so-called Soda Fire was intense,...

Rognstad recovering from skiing injury

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff All’s well that ends well for Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Rognstad, who is back home after undergoing surgery for a relatively minor spinal injury. Rognstad sustained the injury while skiing...

Changing your mind:

By Suzen Fiskin Reader Columnist Many moons ago, my friend Donna and I had been working our booties off, and decided to get out of Dodge for the weekend. We scored an invitation to...

Miles and Me:

By Tim Henney Reader Contributor Charlie “Yardbird” Parker and Dizzy Gillespie blew America’s musical roof off with bebop jazz in the late 1940’s. Softer, conventional jazz—my kind—languished. Their feverish screeching eventually wore out their...