Fifteen years ago and still reeling
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
Fifteen years ago on Sept. 11, America was yanked into the real world.
As a modern nation we’d been jolted before. Bloody labor strikes and …
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Not all billionaires are bad dudes
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
A longtime friend, a California Republican—as I was back when the Grand Old Party was an organization of pride rather than impropriety and prejudice—was bitching …
Sing, sing, sing
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
I have written before about when, with fellow USAF draft dodgers in Georgia and later with jolly collegians in California, we harmonized our way through …
‘It was the best of times’ said Charles Dickens
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
If one is about to salute a decade, as we are about to in Sandpoint, one could do no better than to celebrate the 1950’s. …
Laddies of the Day, revisited
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
“Be careful what you wish for” thought Ben Franklin as he flew his kite into a hot overhead electric line.Thought Julius Caesar over the Cobb …
When we swung and swayed
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
A recent New York Times carried the obituary of former big band vocalist Kitty Kallen. This, in part, is what it said: “Kitty Kallen, her …
Miles and Me:
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
Charlie “Yardbird” Parker and Dizzy Gillespie blew America’s musical roof off with bebop jazz in the late 1940’s. Softer, conventional jazz—my kind—languished. Their feverish screeching …
You asked for it… the Laddies of the Day
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
Within recent months this esteemed journal has run two features on Sandpoint’s wondrous Ladies Of The Day. Readers responded happily. Well, ladies did. But laddies? …
Good job, you princes of Sandpoint
By Tim Henney
Reader Staff
On Friday night, Nov. 13, the civilized world shuddered. One hundred and thirty people were slaughtered and 350 or more hospitalized in Paris by ISIS …
The Ladies of the Day: An encore
By Tim Henney
Reader Staff
My 1957 bride, Jacquelynn, and I once lived in Logan, Utah, a college town. The university president’s name was Kermit, like the famous frog. The …
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Special Report
TIMBER WARS: Six-part series, February-November 2022.
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WHERE ARE THE WORKERS?: Five-part series, September-October 2021.
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THE AMERICAN REDOUBT: Seven-part series, November-December 2017.
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STANDOFF AT RUBY RIDGE: 25 Years Later. Five-part series, August-September 2017.
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Community Calendars
Coming up this week! Don’t miss New Year’s Eve Celebrations, the Polar Bear Plunge, and more! See the full list of events in the Community Calendars:
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Sandpoint in Pictures
Filmmaker Jimmy Matlosz of the Idaho Film Company has made a series of mini documentaries about influential Sandpoint locals, including the late Dann Hall and Erik Daarstad as well as icons Diane Michaels and Dan Shook. He is currently working on a series of interviews connected to the history of the Panida Theater. Jimmy is a 30-year veteran filmmaker who’s work can be seen at dpmatlosz.com.
