Mad About Science: FISH
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Contributor
Brought to you by Sandpoint Library
Fish! Everyone loves fish, whether it’s between a pair of chopsticks downtown or flitting about your custom 272 gallon …
Category: Opinion
Opinion
Vanderford’s to feature local authors
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
What does a lake monster, a psychic, time traveling, murder, Christianity and a Small Town Ho have in common? No idea? They are all subjects …
Sing, sing, sing
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
I have written before about when, with fellow USAF draft dodgers in Georgia and later with jolly collegians in California, we harmonized our way through …
Benghazi: the GOP is beating a dead horse
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
The GOP House Select Committee on Benghazi has interviewed 100 witnesses, spent $7 million of its own funds, and has forced other agencies to spend …
Vanished: the Disconnection of Reality
By Alexandra Blackwood
Reader Contributor
Editor’s Note: We had such a positive response to Ms. Blackwood’s first article, “A Cloaked Reality” dealing with teenage depression, we asked her to write …
A Cloaked Reality:
By Alexandra Blackwood
Reader Contributor
Illustration by Nancy Cerra
The following article is dedicated primarily to those suffering the affliction of mental illness, and to inform individuals unaware of how …
Amateur radio: a fascinating Sandpoint hobby
By Eric Anderson
Reader Contributor
Some of you may have heard of Amateur Radio, or its other, more common name, “Ham” Radio. The term “Amateur” refers to the fact that …
‘It was the best of times’ said Charles Dickens
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
If one is about to salute a decade, as we are about to in Sandpoint, one could do no better than to celebrate the 1950’s. …
A message to Bonner County: Just Vote
By Rick Price
Reader Contributor
If you don’t vote the Republican ballot in the upcoming primary, you’re missing a chance to pick your leaders.
Two weeks ago, Alan Millar wrote …
Single in Sandpoint: the Bathroom Blues
By Scarlette Quille
Reader Columnist
There has been an issue puzzling me for several weeks now.
I try to avoid being sucked in to public discussions about other peoples’ life …
Letters
- Honor, duty, country… Dear Editor, Honor – Duty – Country, these are words were the foundation of John McCain’s life. Where can these three words find a place in the today’s America? Certainly they will not be among the leadership of the Senate, the House of Representatives or the White House. Nor will they ...
- BCHRTF Contact Info… Dear Editor, The Bonner County Human Rights Task Force is quite dismayed that recently an attempt to contact us was not successful. We are taking all precautions so this does not happen in the future. We recognize the importance of being responsive to our community and will make every effort to ...
- Who’s the Real Boogeyman… Dear Editor, The FBI has said that there is no evidence to date that Trump ever met with a Russian figure banned from the United States. Yet, Trump fired Paul Manafort on Aug. 18, 2016, when he heard that a New York Times report revealed that Trump’s campaign chairman was designated to ...
- County Should Cooperate… Dear Editor, Regional 9-1-1 will save money and lives by supporting fast, cooperative emergency responses. Contrary to some comments, conversations on regionalizing 9-1-1 operations were initiated more than two years ago in Bonner County. Unfortunately, progress stalled. According to former Bonner County Technology Director Bill Harp, in 2016 Bonner County won a ...
- In Response… Dear Editor, David Haussler, since you are so interested in science, you may find it interesting that there are receptors in the human brain whose only purpose is to bind with THC, the psychoactive mind altering substance in marijuana. I have a question for you David: Why did your God put these ...
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Special Report
TIMBER WARS: Six-part series, February-November 2022.
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WHERE ARE THE WORKERS?: Five-part series, September-October 2021.
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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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Community Calendars
Coming up this week! Don’t miss Concerts, Dance Madness, Follies Adjacent, and more! See the full list of events in the Community Calendars:
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Sandpoint in Pictures
Filmmaker Jimmy Matlosz of the Idaho Film Company has made a series of mini documentaries about influential Sandpoint locals, including the late Dann Hall and Erik Daarstad as well as icons Diane Michaels and Dan Shook. He is currently working on a series of interviews connected to the history of the Panida Theater. Jimmy is a 30-year veteran filmmaker who’s work can be seen at dpmatlosz.com.
