Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Wilderness Act
By Phil Hough
Reader Contributor
On Sept. 3, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act, preserving 54 areas as wilderness, totaling 9.1 million acres in 13 states. More …
Tagged: history
Rounding up the horses
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
The horses have finally found a home. In 2016, after Clay and Reno Hutchison unpacked two trailers and brought an intact 1920 Allan Herschell carousel …
A Few Thoughts… On a big word, Flannery O’Connor and Alexander the Great
By Sandy Compton
Reader Staff
In the July 3 edition of the Reader, I confessed to gathering odd words and the names of short-lived famous people from American Heritage …
Together in the graveyard
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
There’s a patch of shade behind my house hidden under the drooping boughs of ocean spray shrubs. The only markers now separating it from the …
Dangerous past times
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Among the titles that I’ve coveted in my life — from president to general to knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter — …
‘I will raise such a war-cry against you as shall be remembered forever’
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Thursday, May 30 marks the 593rd anniversary of the execution of Jeanne d’Arc for her part in the Hundred Years’ War and the supposed heresy …
The good ol’ days
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
I miss the good ol’ days.
You know, that era in politics when a candidate — no matter which party they belonged to — did …
A few thoughts… On spring in the Norther Rockies
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
It seems to be spring. Winter wasn’t so great, as winters go; after too many days of skiing last season, I’ve not had enough this …
Mad About Science: Steroids in baseball
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
I was an 8-year-old nerd in a class full of boys — who were primarily jocks — when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa fought an …
Mad About Science: Fentanyl
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
These articles are usually filled with an adequate level of snark and silliness tucked between lines of dense information. This week may not have so …
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 