Mike’s Corner: Quite the scandal
By Mike Wagoner
Reader Contributor
Archaeologists keep finding cool things out about us… our early history as a species… Homo Sapiens, baby… that’s who we are.
Evidently an early prototype …
By Mike Wagoner
Reader Contributor
Archaeologists keep finding cool things out about us… our early history as a species… Homo Sapiens, baby… that’s who we are.
Evidently an early prototype …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
It’s come to my attention that my life story — such as it is — could be considered less than normal, due to the presence …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Contributor
A couple of days into this year’s rifle hunting season, my husband Alex sent me a photo. The text notification made my heart race. He’d …
By Dick Sonnichsen
Reader Contributor
I love that title phrase. If only it were true.
Sadly, it isn’t. Not even close. It’s an oxymoron, a myth, a preposterous impossibility, a …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
I grew up 10 miles south of Sandpoint, in a log cabin beside Highway 95 near Westmond. To this day, if I hear the faraway …
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
It was, perhaps, not my finest moment.
I might have treated one Sandpoint land baron as a proxy for them all.
I might have …
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
Arriving in Sandpoint after a month away is like returning to the baseline of a familiar song — settling into the steady rhythm of my …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Part of my weekly duties as publisher of the Reader is skimming through old newspaper archives for interesting news stories of the past for the …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Reader fans might recognize the name Daniel Cape as a talented illustrator who helped this newspaper find its voice during the first few years after …
By John T. Reuter
Reader Editor Emeritus
The cafe next door to the Panida Theater had caught fire. As firefighters rushed to put out the blaze, they caused water damage …
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