Cucumber Pete and the ‘riot’ at the Seattle Mug Saloon
By Nancy Foster Renk
Reader Contributo
Note: This article uses the original spelling of Sand Point as two words instead of the current single word.
Sand Point had a bit …
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Those **** Californians!
By Nancy Foster Renk
Reader Contributor
We love to complain about newcomers. After all, they’re loud. They drive too fast. They think they own the place — and they probably …
Lake Pend Oreille, 1952: When trophy fish trumped national defense
By Nancy Foster Renk
Reader Contributor
Dr. C.C. Wendle had uncovered a story that was explosive — literally. An unidentified civilian employee at the Navy’s research facility in Bayview told …
James Henry Towles of Hope
By Nancy Foster Renk
Reader Contributor
Hope was a relatively new town when James Henry Towles arrived there no later than 1901. The Northern Pacific laid tracks across the Idaho …
Panida to celebrate 90 years
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
In the office above the Panida Theater hangs a calendar of epic proportions.
The timeline spans all the way from January 2016 to next …
A brief history of farmers’ markets in Sandpoint
By Nancy Foster Renk
Reader Contributor
It was a warm spring morning, the first Saturday in May, and I heard the marimba music several blocks away.
The joyful sounds drew …
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 