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 …
Category: History
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 …
Nature’s monuments
By Hannah Combs
Reader Contributor
In 1910, a passenger moving to Sandpoint by way of the rail may, upon glancing out the window, have seen a pennant waving gently in …
The stories a building could tell
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Sandpoint’s first federal building, a grand spectacle of brick done in the Spanish Colonial Revival style located at 419 N. Second Avenue, has been home …
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Special Report
WHERE ARE THE WORKERS?: Five-part series, September-October 2021.
GO READ IT»
THE AMERICAN REDOUBT: Seven-part series, November-December 2017.
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STANDOFF AT RUBY RIDGE: 25 Years Later. Five-part series, August-September 2017.
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Curious about what media the locals use? Check our 2018 Local Media Survey. GO SEE »
Community Calendars
Happy 4th of July! Check out Pairing in the Pines, then head out to the Mobius Biology Workshop. And don’t miss out on Sandpoint Beerfest, or Jacey’s Race. See all 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»
