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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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