SANDPOINT — Geoff Penrose points right to his staff when asked why Lake Pend Oreille Alternative High School has been able to improve its metrics since he first arrived on the scene a little more than two years ago.
SANDPOINT — In a town that prides itself as a hotbed of artistic talent, Carol Deaner keeps raising the bar on what the definition of “arts community” really means.
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SANDPOINT — Paul Graves has no qualms about being called a geezer. To the contrary, he throws the term about as a badge of honor, recognition of what it means to be someone “of a certain age” who still brims with life.
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SANDPOINT — The stories are horrifying: Children who have never had a meal cooked for them by their parents. Kids who can barely speak because they have been virtually ignored since birth. And those stories are nothing compared with the ones of serial sexual abuse, sometimes involving every child in …
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SANDPOINT - Start with a few tons of castoff paper plates and food scraps, mix it with several yards of manure and rotten hay, let it cook for two years and the result is what gardeners like to call "black gold."
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SANDPOINT - If there is a subtext that weaves its way through the more than three decades that Lawrence E. Keith has been writing poetry, it might be the thread of longing for real and lasting communication.
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