Let’s talk about vampires
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff I blame Twilight on the Puritans. Vampires have featured in American culture and media for centuries, but never more so than in the past 50 years, with smash-hits like...
Category: Opinion
Travers Park: A proud history and community achievement
By Helen Newton Reader Contributor In 1944, Cecil Ereman purchased five acres on West Pine Street from A.C. Eidam, and from that site operated a private garbage collection service for subscribers in the city...
‘The biggest mistake I ever made’
By Carrie Logan Reader Contributor I regret my decision as mayor of Sandpoint to create a new city position: city administrator. If I had it to do it again, I would not go down...
Altered perspective
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The last time I went up in a small aircraft from the Sandpoint Airport had to have been sometime between 2001 and 2002. A high-school friend of mine was...
Ashes to ashes, grapes to wine
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Idahoans feel the impact of climate change every summer when temperatures skyrocket and fire season fills the air with smoke. Rising temperatures around the globe are affecting long-standing wine...
Mike’s Corner: It came to me
By Mike Wagoner Reader Contributor I hang tomato plants upside down in the windows of my cabin just before the frost, allowing all those green ones to slowly ripen as the late fall kicks...
Growing old gracefully
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 delusional figment of imagination. It’s...
Idaho Conservation League celebrates 50 years
By Brad Smith Reader Contributor The Idaho Conservation League was founded in 1973 to be the voice for conservation in the Idaho Legislature. Conservation activists and local groups from around the state recognized that...
A Few Thoughts… On 58 visits to Nespelem
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist Life is full right now. Time seems compressed, but on Saturday, I will take a day to travel to the Colville Reservation to visit a dried-up cemetery. I have...
A message of peace from 1937
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Since J.R.R. Tolkien published his novel The Hobbit on Sept. 21, 1937, the thrilling tale has shaped the hearts and minds of readers across the globe and inspired several...
