Raye of Hope
By Ben Olson Reader Staff For the past six years, Raye Johnson has experienced a different Christmas than most 10-year-old girls. While others are home playing with their presents, sitting by a warm fire...
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Local musician Chris Paradis releases new album Way Up Yonder
By Ben Olson Reader Staff For such a small town, Sandpoint has always been blessed with an inordinately high number of talented musicians. One of the more prolific artists in town is Chris Paradis,...
An Election Day for the books
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff I did the math the other day, and figured out I’ve covered Sandpoint City Hall under six mayors: David Sawyer, Ray Miller, Gretchen Albrecht-Hellar, Marsha Ogilvie, Carrie Logan and now...
Zombies: the democratic monster
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Classic movie monsters usually have a long literary tradition in Gothic or horror novels, but that isn’t the case for the zombie, which made the jump almost immediately from...
Candidate Questionnaire 2023
Compiled by Zach Hagadone, Soncirey Mitchell and Ben Olson Reader Staff Publisher’s note: Before each election, the Sandpoint Reader reaches out to candidates to ask questions about how they would represent the constituents in...
Mind, body and running shoes
By Ben Olson Reader Staff For Matt and Angie Brass, it all comes down to teamwork. Longtime coaches for cross-country and track at Sandpoint High School, the husband-and-wife duo have decided to hang up...
Education, empowerment and connection
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff There’s a new face at the East Bonner County Library, as Joyce Jowdy gets underway in her new role as coordinator for community engagement and adult programming for the...
My ‘office sister’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff There is a page in my desk calendar that I’ve been dreading since there was still snow on the ground. Sometime back in the late-winter or early-spring, I wrote...
Out of the trenches
By Ben Olson Reader Staff I still remember when Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey joined our little family at the Reader. It was the summer of 2016 and I had received an email from a University of...
What I learned while interviewing Vietnam combat veterans
By Ben Olson Reader Staff In 2017, my partner and I made plans to backpack through Vietnam for five weeks. As many who own their own business can attest, there is no such thing...
