Wounded in Vietnam, fifty years ago
By Jodi Rawson Reader Contributor John “Doc” Ivy served five tours in Vietnam from 1966-1971. He was introduced in the Reader on May 23, 2017, as my beloved veteran neighbor. Today, at age 72,...
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From the Senate to the schools
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff It seems Idaho’s longest-serving female senator won’t have to give up her passion for improving the state’s public education system anytime soon. Idaho Gov. Brad Little announced Sept. 26...
Ellen Weissman: Celebrating five years with the Sandpoint Senior Center
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Ellen Weissman passes an important milestone Sunday, Sept. 15: five years of working as the executive director for Sandpoint Area Seniors, Inc. The job, which Weissman throws herself into...
A pageant and a platform
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Like many young women of Bonner County, Mindy Dunn got her start in pageants early in life with a star-turn in Sandpoint Junior Miss. Though she didn’t win the...
Tolerance is not a dying virtue
By Ben Olson Reader Staff In the mid-1950s, a 7-year-old Gary Buck witnessed an act of compassion that stuck with him all his life. His father, a truck driver that had lived in Sandpoint...
Still weird after 25 years
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There’s just something about Eichardt’s. Whether you’re a fan of the food, the cozy atmosphere or the social discourse over pints and plates that occurs every day, it’s just...
Bonner Gospel Mission: Serving the community since 1982
By Jodi Rawson Reader Contributor The vision of the Bonner Gospel Mission originated with Corky Kalben in 1982. “In those years I was doing jail ministry because I had been in and out of...
Suzanne Davis: Sandpoint’s librarian for children and beyond
By Jodi Rawson Reader Contributor Suzanne Davis has been the children’s librarian at the Sandpoint branch of the East Bonner County Library District for 13 years. She was the first friend I made in...
Remembering Tamie Jo Martinsen, 57
By Reader Staff On Dec. 27, 2018, Sandpoint lost a valued member of its community, Tamie Jo Martinsen. She passed away peacefully at the Schneidmiller Hospice House in Coeur d’Alene at the age of...
Brian Casey: An everyday local hero
By Jodi Rawson Reader Staff Though we have both lived in Sandpoint over a decade, I just met Brian Casey last year. I adore him. Just being around him, I find that I can...
