A tip of the cap to Bonner County history
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff In honor of the 50th annual Winter Carnival — scheduled for Friday, Feb. 16-Sunday, Feb. 25 — the Bonner County Historical Museum will unveil the world’s longest ski hat...
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Travers Park: A proud history and community achievement
By Helen Newton Reader Contributor In 1944, Cecil Ereman purchased five acres on West Pine Street from A.C. Eidam, and from that site operated a private garbage collection service for subscribers in the city...
A long lime ago in a mine not too far away…
By Chris Corpus and Hannah Combs Reader Contributors Delia Holton peered over the edge of the scow into the depths of Lake Pend Oreille. The boat rocked gently beneath the dancing feet of her family...
The brick barons of Sandpoint
By Hannah Combs Reader Contributor Peter LaFond had been playing the real estate market, carefully buying properties and trading up for more valuable investments. With a house in town and a 20-acre lot on...
Taking the sand out of ‘Sand Point’
By Hannah Combs and Will Valentine Reader Contributors “‘Sandpoint’ suggests and always will suggest to the outsider a dreary waste of blowing sand,” wrote George R. Barker, editor of the Pend d’Oreille Review newspaper,...
A match made in Sandpoint
By Hannah Combs Reader Contributor According to an article in a 1917 issue of the Pend d’Oreille Review, the history of the match industry “reads like a romance.” Match factory workers of the mid-1800s...
Nature’s monuments
By Hannah Combs Reader Contributor In 1910, a passenger moving to Sandpoint by way of the rail may, upon glancing out the window, have seen a pennant waving gently in the breeze to welcome...
The stories a building could tell
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Sandpoint’s first federal building, a grand spectacle of brick done in the Spanish Colonial Revival style located at 419 N. Second Avenue, has been home to the post office,...
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...
One room to school them all
By Chris Corpus and Hannah Combs Reader Contributors Scrambling onto his brother’s shoulders and waving his arms wildly in the air, he knew he could catch the teacher’s eye. Spotting the young boy above...
