Big fish on the big lake
By Ben Olson Reader Staff For more than 40 years, the Lake Pend Oreille Idaho Club has sponsored the K&K Fall Thanksgiving Fishing Derby on Lake Pend Oreille, giving local anglers a chance to...
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Support downtown retailers this holiday season
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Imagine for a moment what Sandpoint would be like without our downtown shopping district. Driving through other towns across the country, it’s hard to miss the fact that most...
A conservative approach to fixing climate change
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Bob Inglis is a rare human being. He served as a Republican U.S. representative for South Carolina from 1993-1999 and again from 2005-2011. The American Conservative Union gave him...
Sandpoint’s ‘hub’
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Some of the most functional nonprofit organizations in Sandpoint arose out of a need noticed by insightful residents. Sandpoint Community Resource Center, which celebrates 10 years in Sandpoint this...
Folk-grass album release concert Saturday
By Ben Olson Reader Staff For the past 18 years, singer-songwriter Kevin Brown has hosted a bluegrass radio show on Spokane Public Radio called Front Porch Bluegrass. In those almost two decades, Brown has...
Johnson Creek closed over winter for restoration project
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The Johnson Creek Access Site in Clark Fork will be closed until approximately April 1, 2020 due to the Idaho Fish and Game’s Clark Fork Delta Restoration Project Phase...
How to listen to live music
By Ben Olson Reader Staff If you’ve read the headline and thought, “Duh, you just listen to it, bro,” you’re missing the point. Furthermore, this article is probably going to be particularly beneficial to...
‘It’s about acceptance’
By Ben Olson Reader Staff In 1998, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shephard was brutally murdered in Laramie, Wyo. — a murder that was denounced as a hate crime since Shephard identified as gay....
Sip, sip hooray
By Ben Olson Reader Staff When Matchwood Brewing Co. owners Andrea Marcoccio and Kennden Culp opened their doors a year ago in Sandpoint, they had dreams that their brewery would be more than just...
‘Inland Northwest Ale Trail’ app brings area breweries to your fingertips
By Ben Olson Reader Staff An estimated 10 million people visit more than 4,100 craft breweries each year. These impressive numbers point to a rising trend among hop-lovers: beer tourism. For the past decade,...
