Saving the libraries
By K.L. Huntley
Reader Contributor
It is high time for everyone to sit down and quietly come to their senses. Eons ago I wrote a bad song (all of them …
By K.L. Huntley
Reader Contributor
It is high time for everyone to sit down and quietly come to their senses. Eons ago I wrote a bad song (all of them …
By K.L. Huntley
Reader Contributor
I always loved the story of the young people participating in the Special Olympics in Seattle almost 50 years ago. It was the 100-yard dash, …
By K.L. Huntley
Reader Contributor
Everything, absolutely everything eventually evolves. This includes people, wildlife languages and cultures. That is the way it is and the way it will continue to …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
It was genealogical research that led local author Kathleen Huntley to the story of Flora MacDonald.
A first-generation American by way of Scotland on her …
By K.L. Huntley
Reader Contributor
What seems like several eons and another planet ago, I worked in a men’s correctional facility — in short a prison. One of those great …
By K.L. Huntley
Reader Contributor
A long, long time ago I lived in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas in a town originally built during the gold rush of 1849. …
By K.L. Huntley
Reader Contributor
Icy roads and a chill blowing down the snow-covered mountains didn’t deter close to 60 souls gathered at Sandpoint’s First Presbyterian Church on the evening …
By K.L. Huntley
Reader Contributor
Nothing warms the heart more than when someone sincerely tells us they love us — when the cat jumps in your lap and begins to …
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