Taking the sand out of ‘Sand Point’
By Hannah Combs and Will Valentine
Reader Contributors
“‘Sandpoint’ suggests and always will suggest to the outsider a dreary waste of blowing sand,” wrote George R. Barker, editor …
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A factory, a bridge and the name that made them legendary
By Hannah Combs
Reader Columnist
One Friday afternoon with nothing pressing to do, I turned onto the “Popsicle Bridge road.” My eyes habitually searched for a stand of aspen trees …
A match made in Sandpoint
By Hannah Combs
Reader Contributor
According to an article in a 1917 issue of the Pend d’Oreille Review, the history of the match industry “reads like a romance.” Match …
Nature’s monuments
By Hannah Combs
Reader Contributor
In 1910, a passenger moving to Sandpoint by way of the rail may, upon glancing out the window, have seen a pennant waving gently in …
Mysteries of the deep – Part 2
By Chris Corpus and Hannah Combs
Reader Contributors
The early morning light bathed the trees in light on the shores of the Pend Oreille River, and Kristoffer Solheim relaxed in …
Escape to the lake and the advent of tourism
By Chris Corpus and Hannah Combs
Reader Contributors
Laying her luggage on the bed (a real innerspring mattress, just like back home), she steps out the door and across the …
An underground mystery
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
When Heather Upton, interim director of the Bonner County History Museum, received a tip that secret rooms had been uncovered beneath the Abbott Building on …
A North Idaho pandemic: Then & Now
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
For everyone alive in North Idaho today, the novel coronavirus outbreak is uncharted territory.
Across the world, leadership is suspending gatherings, closing schools and encouraging …
Take a walk through Sandpoint’s past
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Thanks to the Sandpoint Historic Preservation Commission, with an assist from the Bonner County Museum, residents and visitors alike are able to hold an abundance …
Historic photos to spruce up downtown fire damage
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Downtown Sandpoint took an aesthetic hit when a fire gutted several historic buildings in early February.
Just as locals gear up for the tourist-heavy summer …
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