Gift Guide 2023: Last-minute shopping
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It would be disingenuous to describe last-minute holiday shopping as an “art” — it’s too frantic for that. Rather, the 11th-hour scramble is better understood as a series of...
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Gift Guide 2023: Buying Local
By Ben Olson Reader Staff In each December edition that comes out before Christmas, the Reader dedicates a page to help our readers figure out what the heck to buy their loved ones for...
Why shop at small businesses this holiday season?
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The shopping season is in full swing, with downtown streets aglow with Christmas lights and shoppers swaddled in parkas and ear muffs. The Sandpoint Shopping District will host its...
Support downtown retailers this holiday season
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Imagine for a moment what Sandpoint would be like without our downtown shopping district. Driving through other towns across the country, it’s hard to miss the fact that most...
Welcome to First Thursdays
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Sandpoint is hopping these days, with a handful of new businesses joining tried-and-true retailers that have established a vibrant marketplace in downtown Sandpoint. To help launch the summer season,...
What’s new? pt. 2
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Editor’s Note: New businesses are springing up all over Sandpoint this summer, and here at the Reader, we’re making an effort to introduce them to the community. Are you...
What’s new?
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Editor’s Note: New businesses are springing up all over Sandpoint this summer, and here at the Reader, we’re making an effort to introduce them to the community. Are you...
Back for the season: The Sandpoint Farmers’ Market celebrates opening day May 4
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff With the spring weather (hopefully) here to stay, North Idaho’s produce growers are readying their harvests for the first day of the Sandpoint Farmers’ Market. Saturday, May 4, marks...
Downtown shopping a Sandpoint holiday tradition
By Lizbeth Turley Fausnight Reader Contributor I remember the first time my husband and I drove into Sandpoint in 2004. We were so excited about our future new home. Having been drawn in the...
Same market with a fresh twist
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff There’s a delicate balance to strike when taking over a long-standing Sandpoint tradition. Kelli Burt and Emma Stanford are well aware of that balance, so in taking over the...
