The Sandpoint Eater: Apples and autumn
By Marcia PilgeramReader Columnist Last week, my dear friend Mary and I took a leisurely walk in my neck of the woods. In the warm afternoon sun, we stopped to admire gardens yielding the...
Category: Personal history
My Sandpoint
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff What does it take to call yourself an Idahoan or, better yet, a Sandpointian? I’ve lived along the shores of Lake Pend Oreille all my life. I grew up in...
Gordon K. Walker (Feb. 12, 1939-Aug. 25, 2026)
Renowned Northwest architect Gordon K. Walker’s favorite adage, as anyone who spent time with him knows, was that life is a three-legged stool balanced on talent, discipline and dumb luck. He had all three...
‘Flour, butter, tradition’
Sawyers Bakery combines Sandpoint heritage with European flair By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff If you’ve stopped by one of downtown Sandpoint’s newest businesses — Sawyers Bakery — in the afternoon, you may have noticed a...
Celebration of life planned for beloved late-educators
Legacies of Bill, Larry and Ray Miller to be honored with memorial scholarship By Reader Staff For generations of Sandpoint locals, the Miller family played an outsized role in their education. Brothers William “Bill”...
Emily Articulated: Time travel
By Emily EricksonReader Columnist The keys under my fingertips are raised — tapered white cubes that subtly resist being pressed before giving way with a satisfying click. Although new, they feel strangely familiar, like...
A Few Thoughts … On bad roads, mining and wilderness
By Sandy ComptonReader Columnist Cliff Lake lies in a stone basin at the base of St. Paul Peak near the south end of the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness (CWM). St. Paul towers over the tarn,...
Cat person
By Ben OlsonReader Staff At one point in my life, if someone told me they were a “cat person” or a “dog person,” I would’ve rolled my eyes at them. The idea of marrying...
‘Simple but elevated’
Feeding the community at The Granary General Store By Ben OlsonReader Staff Sam Podmajerski and Emily Peilleron want to feed the community. The co-owners of The Granary General Store opened their doors earlier this summer,...
‘This beautiful story needs to be remembered’
Clark Fork raises funds for statue honoring local heroes By Reader Staff Inspired by a local story of compassion, community and resilience, acclaimed sculptor Austin Casson has begun construction of a 12-foot-tall statue titled...
