Escape to the lake and the advent of tourism
By Chris Corpus and Hannah Combs
Reader Contributors
Laying her luggage on the bed (a real innerspring mattress, just like back home), she steps out the door and across the …
Category: History
The one who Shook up City Beach
By Hannah Combs and Chris Corpus
Special to the Reader
Young Vernon Shook didn’t let anything stand in the way of his ambitions to become an engineer or doctor — …
An underground mystery
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
When Heather Upton, interim director of the Bonner County History Museum, received a tip that secret rooms had been uncovered beneath the Abbott Building on …
Trees as old as time
By Hannah Combs
Reader Contributor
My first spring in Sandpoint, I visited a friend at her cabin and she wouldn’t let me leave without a visit to “the big tree.” …
Beehives to bangs: Hair through the ages
By Hannah Combs
Reader Contributor
Have you found yourself lately standing in front of the mirror, hoping that quarantine will last the three months it takes to flesh out a …
Wildlife: Friend or faux pas?
By Hannah Combs
Special to the Reader
Courtesy of the Bonner County Historical Society and Museum
Since the last of the snow melted, I have been scattering small piles of …
Museum launches pandemic ‘portraits’ initiative
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The Bonner County History Museum is joining forces with local photographer Kiersten Patterson to launch “Sandpoint Porchraits” — an initiative to photograph Sandpoint families on …
The threads that bind us
By Hannah Combs
Special to the Reader
Courtesy of the Bonner County Historical Society and Museum
On a fine summer morning in 1918, seven women gathered at the home of …
A North Idaho pandemic: Then & Now
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
For everyone alive in North Idaho today, the novel coronavirus outbreak is uncharted territory.
Across the world, leadership is suspending gatherings, closing schools and encouraging …
Captive audience
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Regardless of whether you’re on COVID-19 quarantine at home, most of the world’s premiere art galleries, museums, libraries or exotic places are, or probably will …
Reader in Print
Special Report
THE AMERICAN REDOUBT: Seven-part series, November-December 2017.
GO READ IT»
STANDOFF AT RUBY RIDGE: 25 Years Later. Five-part series, August-September 2017.
GO READ IT»
Curious about what media the locals use? Check our 2018 Local Media Survey. GO SEE »
Community Calendars
Visual feast. Downtown Sandpoint venues host the Pend Oreille Arts Council’s ArtWalk opening receptions Friday evening, when the public is invited to browse local art and check out the POAC’s newly renovated gallery.
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Sandpoint in Pictures
Enter the Sandpoint in Pictures Winter Photo Contest! Post your best winter snapshot in the Sandpoint Winter Photo Contest for a chance at hometown fame, plus a $20 gift certificate to MickDuff’s and a copy of the scenic coffee table book ‘Selkirks Spectacular.’ How to enter? Easy – just post your photo and vote daily at SandpointPictures.com»
