The spirit of song
By Cate Huisman
Reader Contributor
It is a warm, bright September evening, the kind that gives no hint of the cold and dark that will inevitably come. Sweaterless, I toss …
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Reasons for hope in the housing crisis
By Cate Huisman
Reader Contributor
Anyone who reads the “Bouquets and Barbs” column of this newspaper may recall a recent rant by Ben Olson, who serves our community both as …
How Bonner Community Housing Agency is helping to house locals
By Cate Huisman
Reader Contributor
In my last piece about area housing policy [Opinion, “What we can do to address our housing crisis,” May 25, 2022], I mentioned that I …
What we can do to address our housing crisis
By Cate Huisman
Reader Contributor
My earlier piece about what we can’t do to address our crisis in workforce housing [Reader, Opinion, “What we can’t do to address …
What we can’t do to address our housing crisis
By Cate Huisman
Reader Contributor
It’s a little painful to see our fields and empty lots filling up with housing, but this is good, because we have a shortage of …
A new arbor for the arboretum
By Cate Huisman
Reader Contributor
When members of the Kinnikinnick Native Plant Society asked local builder Collin Beggs if he would build something to replace an aging arbor at the …
Bumpy road: A brief history of the proposed Sagle asphalt plant and what’s happening next
By Cate Huisman
Special to the Reader
The saga of the proposed asphalt batch plant in Sagle continues. It’s a window into how governments make land use decisions and how …
Seeking out grizzlies in the Selkirks
By Cate Huisman
Reader Contributor
When you head out for one of the many popular hikes north of Sandpoint, chances are you will end up in the Selkirk Mountains Grizzly …
Help wanted at the arboretum
By Cate Huisman
Reader Contributor
If you had visited Sandpoint’s public library 20 years ago this spring, you might have seen a notice posted there:
•Interested in the native plants …
The future of oil trains redux
By Cate Huisman
Reader Contributor
A year ago in these pages, I wrote about a hearing in Spokane at which hundreds of inland Northwest residents protested the proposed construction of …
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 