SANDPOINT – Hard to believe, when you see this dolled up old home that’s filled with both activity and treasure, that the location for The Cottage sat empty only 10 years ago.
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SANDPOINT — James Brown has been gone for some time now, so the title of “The Hardest Working Man in Show Business” might rightfully go to Truck Mills.
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SANDPOINT — Scattered about the landscape, all but invisible to the untrained eye, are the remnants of centuries — in some cases millennia — past and the people who came before us.
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SANDPOINT – From the outside, the funding for the Pine Street Woods project seems to have fallen into place as if by magic. Seen from inside, however, one realizes that the concept of a “community forest” and the work to bring the project home has been in play for nearly …
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SANDPOINT — Local residents and members of the area’s medical community have teamed up as part of a worldwide movement to promote health and communication through the Walk With a Doc program.
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SANDPOINT — It’s a $53 million dream project that started with an independent film and some free firewood. The inspiration came from the former, while the latter provided the courage to forge ahead.
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SANDPOINT — For more than 18 years, a group of local residents — and a few folks who travel into town to join the fun — have been gathering monthly to celebrate their enjoyment of social dance.
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SANDPOINT — This Friday night, the Pend Oreille Arts Council continues its mission of supporting and promoting local artists with a concert event titled, Northern Stars Rising.
SANDPOINT — On Tuesday, voters head to the polls to decide the fate of a two-year, $25.4 million replacement maintenance and operations supplemental levy.
SANDPOINT — You’re standing in the greeting card aisle, scanning the options for just the right sentiment. The problem is, the romantic cards are too sappy, the condolence cards are too much of a bummer and the supposedly funny cards are, well — not all that funny.
SANDPOINT — What happens to an act of kindness once it has been given and received? Does it stop there? Or does it gain momentum and touch additional lives?
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SANDPOINT — He’s got a wild mind, while she’s a linear thinker. He’s a mind-mapper and she prefers an outline. So when these two friends began to brainstorm on a hike to Scotchman Peak, what started out as a string of random what-ifs in the mind of Adrian Quinn became …
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SANDPOINT – Classical ballet is back in a big way at Dance Works studio. Owner Becky Lucas, who operates two locations – one in Sandpoint next door to the First Presbyterian Church and another in Priest River – has just welcomed Devyn Vaughan-Jolley to her teaching staff.
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SANDPOINT — For most of us, a trip to see the family is an over the river and through the woods kind of affair — even when crossing the river and traveling through the woods is updated to include flight schedules and rental cars.
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SANDPOINT — On Saturday, the third North Idaho Women’s March will keep up the momentum that began immediately after the presidential inauguration in 2017.
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SANDPOINT — It has been six years, almost to the day, since local guitar builder Joel Keefe Shoemaker set up his first, proper shop in the historic granary building on Church Street and set his hand to turning out custom-built instruments.
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SANDPOINT — Makerpoint Studios has always had the coolest toys in town, whether you need a fully equipped wood or metal shop, have a big welding job or want to create a design on computer and etch it into wood with a laser engraver.
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SANDPOINT — In the world of raising children, everything matters. That includes things that might cruise under the radar, such as how often their diapers get changed.
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SANDPOINT — Patsy is all smiles as you enter the front door to the DayBreak Center. She looks over, catches your eye and says, “Good morning” in a way that makes you feel right at home.
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SANDPOINT — The world-class concerts in this series take place in venues located in Spokane and Post Falls. The inspiration behind them, however, is rooted deeply in Sandpoint.
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SANDPOINT – Ten years ago, Dennis Pence watched as a global economic downturn knocked aside his vision of funding a branch campus for the University of Idaho in Sandpoint. His plans to support that venture through a private foundation were a casualty of the recession that followed.
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SANDPOINT — Local community radio station KRFY-FM got its construction permit in mid-2009 and was on the air by January of 2011. But the conversations that led to the volunteer-run, community funded concept started in 2006, when broadcast visionary Scott Daily began shopping the idea around town and caught the …
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SANDPOINT — Catholics, Protestants, children, women and men. The innocent and the directly involved. When it came to misery and death, “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland paid no heed to age, religion or political affiliation.
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SANDPOINT — It’s always nice when a church community adopts a cause and offers its ongoing support. Holy Spirit Episcopal Church, which serves Sandpoint and Dover, has been doing that since the first Episcopal congregation formed here in 1905.
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SANDPOINT – Her concert posters are striking, atmospheric – dramatic, even. In person, Sadie Sicilia easily matches that vibe. No matter that she showed up for a coffee shop interview with her two small children in tow. The artist with raven hair, almost alarmingly intense eyes and drop-dead lipstick makes …
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SANDPOINT – Two local Rotary clubs have partnered with the Lake Pend Oreille School District to help groom the leaders of tomorrow. The Rotary Club of Sandpoint and Ponderay Centennial Rotary Club will host what they’re calling a “Mini-RYLA” event for students in a weekend program set for Nov. 2-4.
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SANDPOINT — Be afraid, robocalling racists. Be very afraid. Time was when you could hide behind some hijacked local number to spew intolerance in anonymity.
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SANDPOINT — A little bit of London’s old Globe Theater will rub off on the fairgrounds this evening, as Montana Shakespeare in the Parks takes to the boards for a performance of the classic thriller, “Othello.”
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SANDPOINT — In a way, the Five Minutes of Fame open mic sessions never really went away. True, the writers and spoken word artists who frequented the monthly gatherings rolled up their collective rug a few months back and marked the end of the long-running event, but the spirit of …
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SANDPOINT — There is no manual for those important, first steps in raising happy, well-adjusted children. If there was, it might well resemble what Mountain States Early Head Start has been teaching North Idaho families since 1998.
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SANDPOINT — Tina Friedman’s first book of photographs, titled “Sandpoint: A Small Town With a Big Heart,” was published in 2008 as a gift to the community. Her next series of books could rightly be considered a gift to the world at large.
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SANDPOINT — Never underestimate the power of a creative mom. With just one of them, a good idea can take flight. Add several more to the mix and you’ve got an honest-to-goodness movement on your hands.
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SANDPOINT — With new digs on the Cedar Street Bridges and a renewed focus on the performing arts, the Pend Oreille Arts Council enters 2018 with an energetic vision for how culture can shape community.
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SANDPOINT — How do you describe a space where imagination is the driving force, where creativity is the compass and ideas stack up like products coming off a production line?
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