Candidates’ forum recap
By Zach Hagadone and Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
A near-capacity crowd turned out Oct. 17 at the Sandpoint Community Hall for a candidates’ forum featuring office seekers in contested races …
Category: Education
According to Coyote explores the richness and vitality of Indigenous storytelling
By Reader Staff
The Idaho Mythweaver is celebrating 35 years of partnering with regional Indigenous tribes to create cross-cultural connections through storytelling with a special live performance of According to …
Candidate Questionnaire 2023
Compiled by Zach Hagadone, Soncirey Mitchell and Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Publisher’s note: Before each election, the Sandpoint Reader reaches out to candidates to ask questions about how they would …
Mad About Science: Bog bodies
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
This subject isn’t for the squeamish, dear reader. Proceed with caution.
Plant-lovers will recognize peat as the light soilless medium sold at garden stores and …
BOCC approves Providence subdivision
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
At a public hearing Oct. 2, Bonner County commissioners approved development of the Providence subdivision, which encompasses 116 residential lots on approximately 40 acres east …
‘Adult Homecoming’ With school back in session, the PTA Dance is all about the adults
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
As a regular member of several local theater productions and director of The Follies variety show, Dorothy Prophet knows something about having a good time. …
Spacepoint hosts final Sci-Fest event of the year, featuring a talk on black holes and screening of Interstellar
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Despite their prevalence in science fiction, black holes have until fairly recently existed only in theory. That all changed eight years ago, thanks to a …
Let freedom read! 2023 Banned Books Week: Oct. 1 – 7
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
By now our community is far too familiar with the words “banned books.” North Idaho’s libraries are battlegrounds where a few attempt to limit the …
Banned Books in Review: Brave New World
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World has been a topic of censorship ever since it was first published in 1932. The dystopian speculative novel explores societal …
Mad about Science: Kalambo falls building site
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Science: just when you think you’ve got everything figured out, new evidence comes to light that says: “You don’t know squat!”
This happened recently at …
Coming up this week! Don’t miss Live Music, the Summer Sampler, the Art Party, Monarch Grind, the Sandpoint Renaissance Faire, and more! See the full list of events in the 