Valentine’s Cards for Seniors enters its fourth year
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
For the fourth consecutive year, Valentine’s Day will usher in a bit more love for Sandpoint’s senior population. Donna Price began Bonner County Valentine’s Cards …
Category: Living Life
Emily Articulated: A place between
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
I’m approaching my seventh anniversary of living in Sandpoint. Upon my arrival, I had only the incredible surroundings, a new bartending gig and the online …
Hosed by pipes
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Throughout my lifetime in Idaho, I can count on two fingers (especially the middle one) the number of times my pipes have frozen in the …
End-of-year ID unemployment holds steady: Growth in government jobs, decline in arts, entertainment and recreation
By Reader Staff
The percentage of unemployed Idahoans stayed steady in December 2023 at 3.3% — a figure carried over from November with a number of trends canceling each other …
On motherhood
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
This missive has made it into the pages of the Reader against all odds from a world so far removed from reality that time and …
Sister of Eve
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Nana made our clothes until her hands couldn’t hold the thread. She dedicated her downstairs living room to the craft: pins and needles scattered across …
Taking on the snow
By Kaleb Keaton
Reader Contributor
Here we are Sandpoint; snow is back in town! To many, snow is alluring with the potential it has for recreation or to get out …
Emily Articulated: How about this weather?
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
I never used to understand why everyone talked about the weather. Throughout my childhood and adolescence, quippy weather observation was the small talk go-to ahead …
Mother, homemaker, world builder
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Recently, upon a Christmas tidings visit to the Reader office, Publisher Ben Olson asked me a perfectly polite and simple question. It was something along …
A few thoughts… On being worried and enraged in 2024
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
It’s time to write something clever about the new year. Or at least something. We get an extra day in 2024, and we get to …
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 