Origins of a misnomer
By Ben OlsonReader Staff I’ve written several times in these pages about the strange proclivity Sandpointians have of saying “Third Street Pier” instead of the actual name, “Third Avenue Pier.” Like using the grammatically...
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Cucumber Pete and the ‘riot’ at the Seattle Mug Saloon
By Nancy Foster Renk Reader Contributo Note: This article uses the original spelling of Sand Point as two words instead of the current single word. Sand Point had a bit of a reputation in...
Those **** Californians!
By Nancy Foster Renk Reader Contributor We love to complain about newcomers. After all, they’re loud. They drive too fast. They think they own the place — and they probably do. They’re changing our...
Lake Pend Oreille, 1952: When trophy fish trumped national defense
By Nancy Foster Renk Reader Contributor Dr. C.C. Wendle had uncovered a story that was explosive — literally. An unidentified civilian employee at the Navy’s research facility in Bayview told Wendle about plans to...
James Henry Towles of Hope
By Nancy Foster Renk Reader Contributor Hope was a relatively new town when James Henry Towles arrived there no later than 1901. The Northern Pacific laid tracks across the Idaho Panhandle in 1881-1882 and...
Panida to celebrate 90 years
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Writer In the office above the Panida Theater hangs a calendar of epic proportions. The timeline spans all the way from January 2016 to next month. It hangs on...
A brief history of farmers’ markets in Sandpoint
By Nancy Foster Renk Reader Contributor It was a warm spring morning, the first Saturday in May, and I heard the marimba music several blocks away. The joyful sounds drew me to Farmin Park...
