Category: Sports and Outdoors
By Reader Staff Ready those fingers and prep the jugs: Huckleberry season is upon us. The Idaho Panhandle National Forests is reminding huckleberry pickers that commercial picking of huckleberries is not permitted. Picking huckleberries...
By Reader Staff The Brush Lake Campground on the Bonners Ferry Ranger District is closing to allow for campground improvements Monday, August 1 through Aug. 12. The closure is for public health and safety...
By Kestrel Bass Reader Contributor Two months ago our neighbor brought over three tiny Canadian geese goslings that had wandered out of the woods and onto her field. Unfortunately, there were no adults in...
By Reader Staff Locals and visitors alike will gain new appreciation for Idaho’s spectacular peaks, lakes, streams and wildlife with the Idaho Conservation League’s 10th annual Summer Adventure Series. With ten excursions planned for...
By Jodi Rawson Reader Contributor Most girls had posters in their rooms of boy bands and unicorns from their past. In junior high, my walls were blue and teal, the lovely modern colors of...
By Reader Staff After 30 years as co-owner of Outdoor Experience, Inc, Marc DeLaVergne has announced his retirement from the business effective July 7, 2016. After moving to Sandpoint with his wife, Joyce, from...
By Susan Drinkard Reader Contributor It is good to go away now and again, but magical, transporting experiences occur all the time here, even for those who have called Sandpoint home for decades. Of...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There’s just something cool about classic boats. They evoke feelings of a simpler pre-war America, when it was the bee’s knees to hop in your old Chris Craft and...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff If you’ve never heard of pickleball, get ready, it’s coming. The sport has become one of the fastest-growing sports in the nation. With more than 13,000 indoor and outdoor...
By Reader Staff The Sandpoint Nordic Club is calling on the community of Sandpoint to help raise money to purchase grooming equipment so that grooming cross country ski trails in town can continue. For...