Downtown construction update
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Work continues apace on street and pedestrian right-of-way construction in the downtown core. Nearly a month after crews broke ground on the project — Phase …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Work continues apace on street and pedestrian right-of-way construction in the downtown core. Nearly a month after crews broke ground on the project — Phase …
By Lyndsie Kiebert and Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Since Burlington Northern-Santa Fe announced plans in the spring of 2017 to begin pursuing permits for building a second rail bridge to …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Summer is typically tour season for traveling bands, and a handful of out-of-towners are swinging through the 219 Lounge in the days immediately before the …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Stepping into The Longshot cafe feels a bit like stepping outside of Sandpoint — in a good way. Though located in the former Wrenco Arms …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
As Winston Churchill reportedly once said, “Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig! He looks you in the …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Hot on the heels of its successful legal fund-drive in early September, the Idaho Second Amendment Alliance is headed to Sandpoint as part of its …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The Sandpoint City Council took up a number of old business items Sept. 18, chief among them pushback to a recent decision by the U.S. …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
There’s a myth about writers, silently toiling in solitude to turn out a perfect page of prose. There’s truth to it — writing can be …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Like any good obsession, Charity Luthy’s affinity for mid-century art and aesthetics started randomly and quickly grew out of all proportion.
“I got really into …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It’ll be an eventful election season, as Tuesday, Nov. 5 marks the date when Idaho voters cast their ballots for city council members, mayors, school …
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