The Sandpoint Eater: Traditions reimagined
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Wrapping gifts, planning menus and making shopping lists, baking and lots of parties might be the norm …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Wrapping gifts, planning menus and making shopping lists, baking and lots of parties might be the norm …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Nobody knows who wrote the first letter to Santa Claus, but the practice didn’t catch on in mainstream America until a con artist named John …
By Soncirey Mitchell
and Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
So, it’s less than a week until Christmas and Hanukkah and you’re looking for last-minute gifts even though you swore you’d be …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Get ready to dress your worst to celebrate the holidays with Royale, a Pacific Northwest cover band that infuses pop culture into every performance. The …
There are a lot of Halloween happenings around Sandpoint tonight. Here’s a quick and dirty guide to all the eerie events offered on Thursday, Oct. 31:
• Sandpoint Witches, Warlocks …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Communities across Bonner County are coming together under canopies of fireworks to celebrate Independence Day on Thursday, July 4, with each city putting their unique …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
When choosing the theme for the 2024 Fourth of July parade, the Sandpoint Lions Club decided to honor Sandpoint’s history with the theme “Back to …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
At one point in history, slang was regarded as the vocabulary of disreputable people, with those in high society refraining from such low speech.
Today, …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It would be disingenuous to describe last-minute holiday shopping as an “art” — it’s too frantic for that. Rather, the 11th-hour scramble is better understood …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
From pancake feeds to foot races, fantastic parades to fireworks, North Idaho does the Fourth of July right. Here’s a selection of some local events …
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