Tagged: memories

Back of the Book / Memories / Opinion / Politics / Sandy Compton

June 4, 2025

A Few Thoughts… On writing for free

By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist

After 61 days away traveling the West — with 10 days on Maui thrown into the middle — it’s good to be home. I drove …

Eats & Drinks / Featured / Marcia Pilgeram / Sandpoint Eater

June 3, 2025

The Sandpoint Eater: May days

By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Contributor

May’s not even over yet, and it has not disappointed. The first days of May were the tailend of our Ireland trip. I was just …

Community Happenings / Featured / History / Obituary / Profile / Zach Hagadone

May 3, 2025

Farewell to Helen Newton, the definition of an authentic Sandpoint ‘local’

By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff

One of Sandpoint’s truest champions passed away on April 25 — Helen Newton, aged 83, left us but she won’t be forgotten for her wit, …

Arts & Culture / Back of the Book / Ben Olson / Books / Memories / Opinion / Personal history / Politics / Zach Hagadone

March 19, 2025

‘Hey, Rube’

By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff

When I was a cub reporter at the Associated Press, stationed in the bowels of the pre-renovation Idaho Capitol, circa 2003, we had a CRT …

Arts & Culture / Conservation Corner / Featured / Health / Memories / Opinion / Personal history / Sports and Outdoors

January 31, 2025

When heartbreak is a lost trail

By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Contributor

My favorite trail segment on my favorite trail in my favorite place in the world has been closed. I am heartbroken, despondent even, at what …

Ben Olson / Conservation Corner / Featured / Local charities / Sports and Outdoors / Volunteer Spotlight

January 26, 2025

‘The lessons that wilderness can teach us’

By Ben Olson
Reader Staff

Phil Hough can pinpoint exactly when he fell in love with the wilderness.

He remembers paddling down the Allagash River in a canoe in the …

Arts & Culture / Back of the Book / Featured / Memories / Personal history / Politics / Random Digital Madness / Zach Hagadone

January 25, 2025

The art of the deal(ing) with it all

By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff

The first time Donald Trump assumed the presidency of the United States, I quit my job as editor of Boise Weekly, we sold our …

Back of the Book / Memories / Personal history / Random Digital Madness / Sandy Compton / Sports and Outdoors

January 15, 2025

A few thoughts… On learning to ski

By Sandy Compton
Reader Staff

Winter has finally arrived, though the frosting on my small forest looks more like December than January. Thankfully, the frosting is much thicker on our …

Eats & Drinks / Featured / Marcia Pilgeram / Memories / Sandpoint Eater

January 14, 2025

The Sandpoint Eater: A delicious decade

By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist

I’d been having a relatively easy week; Christmas was packed up and tucked away, ideas for this column were half-baked and my recipe for chili …

History / Memories / Personal history / Politics

January 8, 2025

Jimmy Carter and Cecil Andrus exemplified public service

By Helen Newton
Reader Contributor

It was in October 1976, before he was elected, that I met Jimmy Carter. Well, to be fair, I didn’t actually “meet” him; but, in …