Mayor’s Roundtable
By Mayor Shelby Rognstad
Reader Contributor
This is the fourth article in the series detailing recommendations that came out of the city of Sandpoint’s Housing and Economic Study developed by …
By Mayor Shelby Rognstad
Reader Contributor
This is the fourth article in the series detailing recommendations that came out of the city of Sandpoint’s Housing and Economic Study developed by …
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
There are times when it is appropriate for a person to be resolved, to be “firmly determined to do something.” A resolution is a venture …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
We’re just going to get this one out of the way at the top. Since 2020, when we started doing these annual review/previews, we included …
By Mayor Shelby Rognstad
Reader Contributor
This is the third piece in a six-part series discussing the Leland Report. The purpose of the report was to help guide the city …
By K.L. Huntley
Reader Contributor
A long, long time ago I lived in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas in a town originally built during the gold rush of 1849. …
By Barbara Russell
Reader Contributor
On Oct. 21, 1985, First Lady Nancy Reagan presented the United Nations with the gift of a mosaic on behalf of the United States in …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Maybe it’s because I was born the day after Christmas that I became a humbug. Throughout my childhood, Christmas always loomed before my birthday; the …
By Jennifer Ekstrom
Reader Contributor
We have some pretty amazing wild spaces up here in North Idaho. Massive lakes. Sparkling rivers. Diverse landscapes ranging from rainforests to rocky crags. And …
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
Once upon a time, we had a client named Elaine. Once upon an earlier time, she was something of a painterly powerhouse. She was …
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
I love the experience of gift giving. I revel in the days of warm rumination about the people I care about, letting thoughts of their …
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