Museum exhibit explores Sandpoint’s mercantile history
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
As President Calvin Coolidge said in 1925, “the chief business of the American people is business.” The same could be said of Sandpoint, dating back …
Category: History
The time Sandpoint celebrated Armistice Day twice
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The headlines in the Pend d’Oreille Review of Friday, Nov. 8, 1918 sound eerily familiar: “Republicans Win County Election”; “With No New Cases of ‘Flu’ …
A long lime ago in a mine not too far away…
By Chris Corpus and Hannah Combs
Reader Contributors
Delia Holton peered over the edge of the scow into the depths of Lake Pend Oreille. The boat rocked gently beneath the …
The brick barons of Sandpoint
By Hannah Combs
Reader Contributor
Peter LaFond had been playing the real estate market, carefully buying properties and trading up for more valuable investments. With a house in town and …
Taking the sand out of ‘Sand Point’
By Hannah Combs and Will Valentine
Reader Contributors
“‘Sandpoint’ suggests and always will suggest to the outsider a dreary waste of blowing sand,” wrote George R. Barker, editor …
Mad About Science
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
If one were to imagine the armor of the medieval ages, images of gallant knights in full—body platemail astride awe—inspiring steeds in full barding would …
A factory, a bridge and the name that made them legendary
By Hannah Combs
Reader Columnist
One Friday afternoon with nothing pressing to do, I turned onto the “Popsicle Bridge road.” My eyes habitually searched for a stand of aspen trees …
Mad About Science: The Titanic
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
People have long been fascinated by the RMS Titanic — a British passenger liner that hit an iceberg and sank into the Atlantic Ocean on …
A match made in Sandpoint
By Hannah Combs
Reader Contributor
According to an article in a 1917 issue of the Pend d’Oreille Review, the history of the match industry “reads like a romance.” Match …
Mad About Science
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Earth is old — more than 4.5 billion years old. As far as we know, life has been clinging to Earth in its various forms …
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Special Report
TIMBER WARS: Six-part series, February-November 2022.
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THE AMERICAN REDOUBT: Seven-part series, November-December 2017.
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Community Calendars
December is creeping in! Head out to the return of the live gathering for the Kinderhaven Festival of Trees, or just take in a showing of The Polar Express or It’s a Wonderful Life with your family. See the full list of events in the Community Calendars:
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Sandpoint in Pictures
Videography Jimmy Matlosz is making mini-documentaries, aka “mini docs” of notable Sandpoint persons. So far subjects have included cinematographer Erik Daarstaad, broadcaster Diane Michaels and man-of-many-talents Dan Shook. Latest is photographer Dann Hall. Go watch them at The Idaho Film Company»
