The spirit of song
By Cate Huisman Reader Contributor It is a warm, bright September evening, the kind that gives no hint of the cold and dark that will inevitably come. Sweaterless, I toss my music folder and...
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Reasons for hope in the housing crisis
By Cate Huisman Reader Contributor Anyone who reads the “Bouquets and Barbs” column of this newspaper may recall a recent rant by Ben Olson, who serves our community both as the paper’s publisher and...
How Bonner Community Housing Agency is helping to house locals
By Cate Huisman Reader Contributor In my last piece about area housing policy [Opinion, “What we can do to address our housing crisis,” May 25, 2022], I mentioned that I wanted to write more...
What we can do to address our housing crisis
By Cate Huisman Reader Contributor My earlier piece about what we can’t do to address our crisis in workforce housing [Reader, Opinion, “What we can’t do to address our housing crisis,” April 21, 2022]...
What we can’t do to address our housing crisis
By Cate Huisman Reader Contributor It’s a little painful to see our fields and empty lots filling up with housing, but this is good, because we have a shortage of housing — right? The...
A new arbor for the arboretum
By Cate Huisman Reader Contributor When members of the Kinnikinnick Native Plant Society asked local builder Collin Beggs if he would build something to replace an aging arbor at the Lakeview Park arboretum, he...
Bumpy road: A brief history of the proposed Sagle asphalt plant and what’s happening next
By Cate Huisman Special to the Reader The saga of the proposed asphalt batch plant in Sagle continues. It’s a window into how governments make land use decisions and how citizens can affect the...
Seeking out grizzlies in the Selkirks
By Cate Huisman Reader Contributor When you head out for one of the many popular hikes north of Sandpoint, chances are you will end up in the Selkirk Mountains Grizzly Bear Recovery Zone, one...
Help wanted at the arboretum
By Cate Huisman Reader Contributor If you had visited Sandpoint’s public library 20 years ago this spring, you might have seen a notice posted there: •Interested in the native plants of North Idaho? •Would...
The future of oil trains redux
By Cate Huisman Reader Contributor A year ago in these pages, I wrote about a hearing in Spokane at which hundreds of inland Northwest residents protested the proposed construction of an “energy distribution terminal”...
