‘This isn’t the way we do business here’
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
A few months after Florida-based investor Jim Gissy purchased the Cedar Street Bridge in late 2018, it was hailed as “a new golden age” for …
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‘We have met the enemy and he is us’
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Remember back in June 2020 when armed militia-types patrolled our downtown to protect us from “vans of Antifa” that were coming from out of the …
Conservation: From the Timber Wars to collaboration (part II)
By Zach Hagadone
Special to the Reader
This article is part of a series supported by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council and sponsored by Friends of the Scotchman …
Conservation: From the Timber Wars to collaboration
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The so-called “Timber Wars” are generally described as having occurred in the 1980s and ’90s. It was a period of conflict waged in both the …
A history of remembrance
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Among the most interesting historical sources are the messages soldiers send home from the battlefront. Not so much for what they tell us about the …
Schweitzer announces Phase 1 of worker housing project
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
When Schweitzer announced its Hemlock House employee housing project in Sandpoint last December, mountain officials hinted that there were “bigger projects” in the works. That …
My mom is kind of a big deal
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
There’s not enough room on this page — maybe even in this paper — to adequately praise or even describe my mom. She’s kind of …
A few words on Chartreuse
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Often in winter the best policy is to pretend that you’ve died for as long as the living will allow. But spring is the season …
Sandpoint P&Z gives initial approval for Culver’s Crossing development
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The Culver’s Crossing affordable housing project cleared its first, though crucial, hurdle April 5, when members of the Sandpoint Planning and Zoning Commission voted unanimously …
Two years of COVID
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Two years ago on this day I was out of a job — and, for the first time in my job-hopping life, it was involuntary. …
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