Tagged: personal history

My friend Bob was killed on Highway 95 yesterday [April 14]. Crushed, torn apart, burned. His passenger, a young man, was life-flighted to Spokane in …

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April 14, 2025

New owners, same local vibes

By Ben Olson
Reader Staff

Anyone who has called Sandpoint home for more than a minute has heard of Misty Mountain Furniture. The boutique furniture shop has handcrafted fine art …

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April 12, 2025

From cover to cover

By Ben Olson
Reader Staff

You can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can certainly judge a good bookstore by its owner. Since 1997, Sandpoint has been fortunate …

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 …

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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 …

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 …

History / Memories / Personal history / Politics

January 8, 2025