The Sandpoint Eater: Apples and autumn
By Marcia PilgeramReader Columnist Last week, my dear friend Mary and I took a leisurely walk in my neck of the woods. In the warm afternoon sun, we stopped to admire gardens yielding the...
Category: Memories
My Sandpoint
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff What does it take to call yourself an Idahoan or, better yet, a Sandpointian? I’ve lived along the shores of Lake Pend Oreille all my life. I grew up in...
Gordon K. Walker (Feb. 12, 1939-Aug. 25, 2026)
Renowned Northwest architect Gordon K. Walker’s favorite adage, as anyone who spent time with him knows, was that life is a three-legged stool balanced on talent, discipline and dumb luck. He had all three...
The schoolhouse rocks
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Much political hay has been made about the supposedly decrepit state of our nationwide public school system, with whole industries devoted to tearing down confidence in how kids are educated. ...
Celebration of life planned for beloved late-educators
Legacies of Bill, Larry and Ray Miller to be honored with memorial scholarship By Reader Staff For generations of Sandpoint locals, the Miller family played an outsized role in their education. Brothers William “Bill”...
Emily Articulated: Time travel
By Emily EricksonReader Columnist The keys under my fingertips are raised — tapered white cubes that subtly resist being pressed before giving way with a satisfying click. Although new, they feel strangely familiar, like...
The Sandpoint Eater: People of paradise
By Marcia PilgeramReader Columnist I’ve just returned from escorting a group aboard the m/s Paul Gauguin, a ship I’ve sailed on many times. The French Polynesian scenery is, of course, spectacular. The lagoons are...
Robert Rice “Bob” Eldred (March 13, 1940 – Aug. 4, 2026)
Robert Rice “Bob” Eldred, 86, passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026, near Sandpoint, Idaho. Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 15 at Lakeview Funeral Home at 301 South...
Emily Articulated: Coastal
By Emily EricksonReader Columnist The overhead fan hums through my borrowed camper van, mixing with waves riding a Pacific wind. The air is cool and clean and thick with briny humidity. Sand and damp...
Cat person
By Ben OlsonReader Staff At one point in my life, if someone told me they were a “cat person” or a “dog person,” I would’ve rolled my eyes at them. The idea of marrying...
