Uncomfortably numb
By Jerry Luther
Reader Contributor
We parked close to the City Parking Lot, got our puppets out of the car and quickly became our characters — my wife is in …
By Jerry Luther
Reader Contributor
We parked close to the City Parking Lot, got our puppets out of the car and quickly became our characters — my wife is in …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
There was a time when what you thought about guns didn’t somehow indicate your opinions on everything from electric cars to the germ theory of …
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
Darn! It’s already March. November is coming up fast, and I declared my 2020 candidacy for president back when the Trump got elected, but then …
By Marjolein Groot Nibbelink
Reader Contributor
More than 97 guns are owned per 100 people in the United States. Serbia is second, with 58 per 100, and Yemen third with …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Hot on the heels of its successful legal fund-drive in early September, the Idaho Second Amendment Alliance is headed to Sandpoint as part of its …
Carrying in public places: ‘Better to have it and not need it’
By Steve Wasylko
Reader Contributor
The short answer is “yes,” I would feel safe at the Festival knowing …
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
My godfather Kevin is as avid an outdoorsman as they come, with the quiet, confident demeanor of someone who doesn’t need to brag about their …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Wrenco Arms isn’t just a store — it’s a gravitational center for Sandpoint’s large, thriving community of shooting enthusiasts.
All the more appropriate, then, that …
By Ben Olson and McCalee Cain
Reader Staff and Contributor
A heavy spring snowfall didn’t deter the hundreds of people from marching on Saturday morning. At the south end of …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
A gun forgotten at Foster’s Crossing this week required an impromptu investigation into Idaho firearm law.
Storekeepers at the local antique retail and cafe shop …
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