On buzzer beaters
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff It was like the climax of a sports movie, only less probable. I was volunteering to help coach a girls’ junior high basketball game when a divine combination of...
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The bitter pill of nostalgia
By Ben Olson Reader Staff I love watching movies from the 1990s. There’s something nostalgic and warm about that decade right before we all became consumed by the internet, smartphones and social media. It...
The soft underbelly of a humbug
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Maybe it’s because I was born the day after Christmas that I became a humbug. Throughout my childhood, Christmas always loomed before my birthday; the annual eclipse that left...
An ode to the makers
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Christmas brings to mind the iconic imagery of Santa’s workshop. It’s been depicted many ways over the years, but the basis remains the same: There is a place, at...
No: The Nazis were not liberals. Stop trying to say they were
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff There’s been a curious trend in the letters to the editor I’ve been receiving lately: people trying to claim that the Nazis were “actually” liberals and that the Democratic...
Not far from the tree
By Ben Olson Reader Staff When I was younger and someone asked where I was from, I’d tell them I was born and raised right here in Sandpoint. They might ask the usual questions:...
What the woolly worm told me
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Everyone knows about the prognosticating powers of the groundhog, recognized each February when Punxutawney Phil does or does not see his shadow, indicating the remaining length of winter. The...
‘Dear Editor’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Things are bad, folks. I say this not as a partisan for any particular political party, but as a son raised in a fuzzy melange of lapsed Scottish Presbyterian...
A weekly reminder: You’re not crazy
By Ben Olson Reader Staff In the nearly eight years I’ve been at the helm of this newspaper, one constant remains as a motivating reason why we do what we do — to remind...
I wanted a barn cat
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff I’m a dog person. Most people can make assertions about what kind of person that makes me, and they’d likely be right. I am outgoing, energetic and enjoy the...
