North Idaho nomenclature, redux
By Ben OlsonReader Staff Back in April, I wrote a Back of the Book essay titled “North Idaho nomenclature” that explored the wild and wooly sayings we often hear in our neck of the...
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Independent and local — always
By Ben OlsonReader Staff When the Reader was founded in 2004, it was owned by three college friends who wanted to provide an alternative voice in North Idaho. When Zach Hagadone, John Reuter and...
What the hunt holds
Reflections on elk season 2025 By Lyndsie Kiebert-CareyReader Staff “It isn’t feeling very elk-y out here today,” my dad whispered. We stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the trail, rifles in the crooks of our arms and...
‘That’s just Mom’
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Contributor Many mothers will receive cards and novelty coffee mugs this May dubbing them “#1 Mom,” but only one Sandpoint woman could ever boast the titles of both Idaho Mother...
An elk hunter’s circle of life
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Contributor In my brief time as a parent, I’ve come to know that the ultimate joy of raising a small person is sharing things with them. So far, this sharing...
Reader takes home wins from Idaho Press Club awards
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Last weekend, all three full-time members of the Sandpoint Reader editorial staff road-tripped to Boise for the annual Idaho Press Club awards banquet, or “Nerd Prom” as we call...
Let the officials officiate
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Emeritus More than 14 million people tuned in to watch the Final Four matchup between the Iowa and UConn women’s college basketball teams earlier this month, setting a new record...
A meditation on the science of musical taste
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Contributor I recently revisited what can only be described as a cinematic and musical masterpiece of the 21st century: the 2003 film School of Rock, starring Jack Black and a...
On motherhood
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff This missive has made it into the pages of the Reader against all odds from a world so far removed from reality that time and space lack any meaning....
Mother, homemaker, world builder
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Recently, upon a Christmas tidings visit to the Reader office, Publisher Ben Olson asked me a perfectly polite and simple question. It was something along the lines of: “Do...
