Off the Record: Moms
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff It’s an ongoing joke that even though my mom and I live about a quarter-mile apart, we never see each other. This is not entirely true. We are busy...
Category: Profile
For Ethan, and for all
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff If you don’t see Justine Murray at La Chic Boutique, her business in downtown Sandpoint, chances are she is probably hiking. Being in the mountains is a pastime that...
Hatching egg-ceptional memories
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Easter eggs are a staple of childhood. They’re often plastic, filled with candy and money. Sometimes they’re real — boiled, vibrantly colored and enjoyed three meals a day until...
Madame Wu
By Phil Deutchman Reader Contributor The U.S. Postal Service issued a new, “forever” stamp featuring the portrait of nuclear physicist Chien-Shiung Wu. She is not known to the general public, but is famous to...
Made for the Mongol Derby
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Lena Haug is a dedicated equestrian and adventure seeker, and plans to prove it in the most awesome way possible: competing in the 2021 Mongol Derby, the longest —...
Zoom Boom: Tensions between regulation and deregulation
By Susan Drumheller Reader Contributor The “Zoom boom” economy has exploded in Bonner County — one of many western outdoorsy communities getting flooded with “amenity migrants” seeking a better and, for some, a more affordable...
Bringing solutions, not division, to the table
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff For years, Luke Malek’s name has circulated among Idaho politicos as one to watch. A 2004 graduate of the College of Idaho, he served as North Idaho regional director...
James Henry Towles of Hope
By Nancy Foster Renk Reader Contributor Hope was a relatively new town when James Henry Towles arrived there no later than 1901. The Northern Pacific laid tracks across the Idaho Panhandle in 1881-1882 and...
From the ground up
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff It’s a balmy 40-degree January morning in Sandpoint, and Dan Wimberly and his volunteer construction crew are hard at work building a Habitat for Humanity home for a local family...
Bringing the herd together
By Ben Olson Reader Staff If there’s one word that encapsulates the Carousel of Smiles restoration project for Reno Hutchison, it’s “magic.” Reno and her husband Clay have brought the restoration of this one-of-a-kind...
