Mad about Science: Pumpkin spice
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Staff
Though Reader Editor Zach Hagadone has expressed an aversion to the phraseit’s that time of the year again, that’s what it is — …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Staff
Though Reader Editor Zach Hagadone has expressed an aversion to the phraseit’s that time of the year again, that’s what it is — …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Sorry, 7B. This one is a birthday present to myself. Cue the sad, lonely, lip-dampened noisemaker celebrating the slow march to the grave.
As a …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
It’s a wrap, folks. The 16th annual Heart Ball proved as successful as its predecessors. The following night, I watched the Grammys and thought that …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
There is an irreparable rift in our country. On either side of the aisle, voices are raised, fingers are pointed, insults are thrown. It’s doughnut! …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
My girls, their families and I wrapped up summer with a long Labor Day weekend in Spokane. In keeping with tradition, we stayed at the …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
I turn to therapy cooking when I’m whirlwind-busy with my travel business. The kitchen’s my sanctuary, where I seek solace from work and life-related stress. …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Cooking is a chemistry class in which you get to eat your grade at the end. Most of us know how to cook food, but …
Reader Columnist
I’ve been hitting “Mimi’s mysteries” from my freezers pretty hard this week. It’s just me and my three-legged, insulin-dependent cat, Laurel, and we’ve both been grateful for all …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Food Columnist
Lent, the solemn religious period observed by Christians around the world, comes late this year. In these parts, it’s a good thing because maybe …
The Sandpoint Reader is our town's local, independent weekly newspaper. "Independent" means that the Reader is locally owned, in a partnership between Publisher Ben Olson and Keokee Co. Publishing, the media company owned by Chris Bessler that also publishes Sandpoint Magazine and Sandpoint Online. Sandpoint Reader LLC is a completely independent business unit; no big newspaper group or corporate conglomerate or billionaire owner dictates our editorial policy. And we want the news, opinion and lifestyle stories we report to be freely available to all interested readers - so unlike many other newspapers and media websites, we have NO PAYWALL on our website. The Reader relies wholly on the support of our valued advertisers, as well as readers who voluntarily contribute. Want to ensure that local, independent journalism survives in our town? You can help support the Reader for as little as $1.