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, and have since taken...
Category: Opinion
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 including the grizzly bear,...
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 many of the observations...
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 Svensson (not his real...
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 brings up September, their...
‘Idaho nice’
By Dick Sonnichsen Reader Contributor A friend of mine from Minnesota brags about the friendliness of the people of his state, a concept the inhabitants call “Minnesota Nice.” “Minnesota Nice” is a cultural stereotype...
Finding Schitt’s Creek in ‘the Caribbean of the Rockies’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It has taken 10 years, many miles and more car barfs, backseat brawls and emergency roadside pit stops than I care to recall (including an apocalyptic diaper eruption six...
Reasons for hope in the housing crisis
By Cate Huisman Reader Contributor Anyone who reads the “Bouquets and Barbs” column of this newspaper may recall a recent rant by Ben Olson, who serves our community both as the paper’s publisher and...
River daze
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Every once in a while, as life stacks up a bit too high, the river calls. I dream of long days in the canoe, drifting along with the current,...
The wedding singer
By Ben Olson Reader Staff I’ve played music at some interesting places in the dozen years I’ve been in a band. Once I played atop the freezers in Winter Ridge, my head just feet...
