A case for human compassion
By Nishelle Gonzalez
Reader Contributor
I often get curious when someone has different political ideals. I honestly don’t like talking about politics in the frame of “what side are you …
Category: Opinion
Opinion
One week at a time
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Where in the name of Edward R. Murrow has eight years gone?
That’s how long it’s been since we brought the Reader back from the …
The Lumberjill: The f-bomb is only acceptable when talking about the president, and other language arts lessons from North Idaho
By Jen Jackson Quintano
Reader Columnist
My little one was nervous for the first day of school. The entire drive found her curled in the fetal position, reciting the mantra, …
Emily Articulated: Tipping
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
I spent an entire decade of my life in a tip-based industry, waiting tables, tending bar and tour-guiding at everything from college pubs to fine …
Remembering a ‘true servant of mankind and plants’
By Pete Hicks
Reader Contributor
Jeffrey Rich, known to many of us as Sprouts, blessed our community for more than 40 years. My family only got the chance to know …
On memories
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
If I want to remember when something happened, I scroll through the photos on my phone.
I last cleaned out the folder in late 2019, …
Winter motorized rec. proposed alternative: An environmental apocalypse
By Paul Sieracki
By Reader Contributor
The North Zone Winter Recreation proposal — developed by a “collaboration” of pro-motorized recreation groups — will severely impact endangered, candidate and sensitive species …
Facts on local growth
By Jeremy Grimm
Reader Contributor
Ben, I appreciated the reflection provided in your opinion piece “Embrace the shoulder season… while we still can,” published on Sept. 1, 2022. You captured …
A Few Thoughts … On artistic types in the wilderness
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
Each year, a backpacking trip into a nearby wilderness is undertaken by certain artistic types (ATs), most often plein air painters. ATs follow “guide” Bearly-Seen …
Embrace the shoulder season… while we still can
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
You hear it in conversations at bars and restaurants all over town. Locals complain to one another about the summer tourist struggles but, when someone …
Letters
- Shooting could have been avoided… Earlier this month an incident took place in Sandpoint where a law enforcement officer used deadly force in the execution of his duties. Sad to say, but this confrontation was easily avoidable. I’m not for one minute saying the use of deadly force was not justified. Quite the opposite, it ...
- Electrical hypersensitivity follow up… Dear Editor, Thank you so much for covering the story of electrohypersensitivity . As a follow up to the happenings of it in my life, the new meter; a non-two way communicating I-tron meter was put in but I’m still feeling pressure in my inner ears, and ...
- Just like Laura… Dear Editor, Several hundred people, or so it appeared, showed up last Sunday afternoon on a grassy knoll on Lakeshore Drive to celebrate Laura Bry’s life of goodwill and good work. She had died of a heart attack at 53. As we listened to and empathized with the emotional tributes from ...
- Highway 200 roadside cutting wrong… Dear Editor, They are the minions of the Sarnonian, Darth Vadian, and Voldemortian absolute worst agency in our state—those who do the dirty work for the ID(I)OT Machine. I usually include that middle “I” when describing this arrogant and seemingly all-powerful government agency—the Idaho Department of Transportation. I rarely know, and ...
- Sandpoint Lions Club gives thanks… Dear Editor, The Sandpoint Lions Club would like to take this opportunity to thank Schweitzer Mountain Resort and Papé Machinery for their participation in this year’s Independence Day Celebration. Without the generous gift on a 2015/2016 season ski pass and Papé’s assistance in purchasing a John Deere Gator, the Lions Club would ...
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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 out on Live performances of music & theater, fundraising, 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.
