Burnin’ rubber for 37 years
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
The city of Sandpoint, plus a thousand or so friends, are ready to start rockin’, rollin’ and strollin’ through downtown to celebrate the 37th annual …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
The city of Sandpoint, plus a thousand or so friends, are ready to start rockin’, rollin’ and strollin’ through downtown to celebrate the 37th annual …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Get ready for the sound of vintage motors revving, doo-wop music blaring over loudspeakers and a couple thousand people milling about downtown Sandpoint — it’s …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Gerry “Rocky” Seader has been playing the drums since the age of 10 and drumming on the road with classic rock ’n’ roll acts since …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
When the coronavirus pandemic waylaid every event in the spring of 2020, Carolyn Gleason assured the people of North Idaho that there would be a …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
For the second year in a row, Sandpoint’s Lost in the ’50s — a celebration of the cars, fashion and music of the 1950s — …
By Reader Staff
Sandpoint’s annual classic car event and celebration of decades gone by, Lost in the ’50s, has been canceled for 2020.
Event organizers took to Facebook to share …
Reader Staff
A post in the Sandpoint Local Forum Facebook group on March 11 created a firestorm of concern over the future of the annual Sandpoint event Lost in the …
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
This plea is on behalf of the handful of doddering, post-dotage Sandpointians who, during our fair town’s annual Lost in the ‘50s, wander First Ave. …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Lost in the ‘50s weekend is often called the biggest party of the year in Sandpoint. It has served as the unofficial start to the …
By Scarlette Quille
Reader Columnist
It’s that special time of year in Sandpoint: Birds are singing, flowers are blooming, the snow has melted and it’s been a month since the …
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