A Few Thoughts … On bad roads, mining and wilderness
By Sandy ComptonReader Columnist Cliff Lake lies in a stone basin at the base of St. Paul Peak near the south end of the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness (CWM). St. Paul towers over the tarn,...
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The Sandpoint Eater: Snackpack
By Marcia PilgeramReader Columnist Spring has arrived (I think). It’s time to roll down the car windows, grab a map or two (yes, paper maps, please) and follow the two-lane highways stitching together the...
The world according to Doug
Beloved longtime Eichardt’s bartender Doug Clark hits the road By Ben OlsonReader Staff There’s just something special about Eichardt’s Pub. The unpretentious local eatery and watering hole is Sandpoint’s closest embodiment to the European...
Sandpoint PRCA Rodeo coming to the fairgrounds
By Reader Staff The Bonner County Fairgrounds are gearing up for a month of major events, kicking off Friday, Aug. 1-Saturday, Aug. 2 with the Sandpoint PRCA Rodeo. From 7-9:30 p.m. both days, spectators...
The Hive to host two touring bands
By Ben Olson Reader Staff It’ll be a two-for-one deal Friday, April 25, when The Dead & Down and Babes in Canyon take the stage at The Hive (207 N. First Ave., in downtown...
Earth Day reminds us that we’re a part of nature
By Isabelle Manning Reader Contributor Growing up in the Bay Area, nature came with a schedule and a set of keys. For my family, it always took planning, packing and driving. Nature was weekends...
Groups go to court to get wolves relisted in Montana and Idaho
By Darrell Ehrlick Daily Montanan A prediction, several years in the making, came true on April 8 when an alliance of nearly a dozen conservation groups filed suit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...
Judge finds racist robocaller liable for 4,959 illegally spoofed calls
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Justice finally caught up with Scott Rhodes, a man who lived briefly in Sandpoint while conducting a yearslong campaign of hate through racist robocalls directed at individuals across the...
Area Gray wolves denied Endangered Species Act protection
By Soncirey Mitchel Reader Staff The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a decision Feb. 2 denying wildlife conservation groups’ petition to protect northern Rocky Mountain gray wolves under the Endangered Species Act, which...
A trip to the surreal
By Susan Drinkard Reader Contributor A Trip to Bountiful is my all-time favorite movie, but a trip to Syme’s Hot Springs is my favorite trip to the surreal. Having visited the hot springs innumerable...
