The children just want to breathe
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff As fires rage in Idaho’s forests, the smoke hangs so thick sometimes in Sandpoint that its famous views take on a muted, ghostly pallor. Summer vacation, every kid’s dream,...
Category: Sports and Outdoors
State returns to Stage I fire restrictions
By Reader Staff As a spate of regional wildfires and numerous smoke-filled days have given way to cooler, wetter weather, the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation announced Aug. 30 that the state would...
‘This is your sled hill’
By Reader Staff Shortly before the final band took the stage at the inaugural SledFest fundraiser on Aug. 26, Kaniksu Land Trust Executive Director Katie Egland Cox made an important announcement to the community...
August-September Parks and Rec. programming
By Reader Staff Sandpoint Parks, Recreation, and Open Spaces will be offering the following programming during the remainder of August and September of 2023. • Game night with the Lions Club. A FREE family...
The Idaho Club renews push to develop Trestle Creek, threatening imperiled fish
By Jennifer Ekstrom Reader Contributor A proposal to build luxury housing and a large private marina at the mouth of Trestle Creek on Lake Pend Oreille poses major threats to bull trout, which are...
One year’s seeds, seven years’ weeds
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Lake Pend Oreille’s noxious weed problem has worsened over the past six years, as blooms of invasive Butomus umbellatus, or flowering rush, have joined Eurasian milfoil to clog area...
Lake Pend Oreille, 1952: When trophy fish trumped national defense
By Nancy Foster Renk Reader Contributor Dr. C.C. Wendle had uncovered a story that was explosive — literally. An unidentified civilian employee at the Navy’s research facility in Bayview told Wendle about plans to...
Dirt-y secrets: in the thick of it
By Ranel Hanson Reader Columnist Hooray for August! Sun, a warm lake, berries and flowers everywhere — hooray! Little brown frogs, grasshoppers that look like butterflies when they fly, butterflies, bees of all kinds,...
Dive in, swim on
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff In 1995, 68 swimmers joined founder Eric Ridgway on the sandy shoreline of Dog Beach to celebrate the completion of the first-ever Long Bridge Swim. Participants took the scenic...
Where will the children play?
By K.L. Huntley Reader Contributor Everything, absolutely everything eventually evolves. This includes people, wildlife languages and cultures. That is the way it is and the way it will continue to evolve long after we...
