What’s in a name? (pt. 4)
By Ben Olson Reader Staff This is the fourth installment of an ongoing series exploring the origins of where we got some of our placenames from. Last week, we covered Newport/Oldtown, Scotchman Peak, Talache,...
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Scenic Newport train offers June dates
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The Scenic Pend Oreille River Train, or SPORT, is offering June rides in addition to their regular fall color routes held in September and October. In conjunction with the...
What’s in a name? (pt. 3)
By Ben Olson Reader Staff This is the third installment of an ongoing series exploring the origins of where we got some of our placenames from. Last week, we covered Sagle, Schweitzer, Colburn, Selle,...
What’s in a name? (pt. 2)
By Ben Olson Reader Staff This is the second installment of an ongoing series exploring the origins of where we got some of our placenames from. Last week, we covered Pend d’Oreille, Sandpoint, Priest...
What’s in a name? (pt. 1)
By Ben Olson Reader Staff I’ve always been fascinated by how something gets its name. People have been asking questions about the origins of words since the time of the Greek philosophers. Why is...
Railroad exhibit shines light on Sandpoint history
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff The history of the railroad is a key part of the Sandpoint community. It’s fitting, then, that the community played a key part in capturing its legacy with a...
The pioneers’ keepers
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff For the second year, a group of volunteer citizens will perform an extensive cleanup on the Pioneer Cemetery — or “Chinese Cemetery” — in Hope. It’s an effort to...
Mad About Science: Superbears
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist It’s a bird, it’s a plane! It’s a bear that weighs as much as an F-150! Bears are perhaps the most majestic, awe-inspiring creatures in North America. They are...
A short history of religious violence in Sri Lanka
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist “The sword is pulled from the scabbard, it is Not put back unless smeared with blood.” —from a Sri Lankan Buddhist battle song. Over the past 36 years I’ve...
Mad About Science: The Dodo
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist The dodo was a bird closely related to pigeons and doves, though you wouldn’t think it if you ever saw one. They were about three feet tall, fat and...
