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Passing the torch on Father's Day

SANDPOINT – The last time I saw my father alive was on Father’s Day in 2012. The date was June 17, and he was surrounded by children and grandchildren – lucid, entertaining as always and talking about who he would interview next for one of his columns in the Daily …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Painters inspire series of short plays

SANDPOINT — If life imitates art, to lift a snippet from an Oscar Wilde quote, then actors can, too. Or, at the very least, they can reflect its image.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Mystery safe locked tight for 40 years

SANDPOINT — Is there anything more mysterious, more alluring than a locked safe for which no one knows the combination?
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Yoga studio is 'point of change'

SANDPOINT — The body politic has devolved into an embarrassing spectacle where grown men and women now insult one another with schoolyard taunts and squabble like toddlers over pretty much everything.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

'We are all just walking each other home'

SANDPOINT – Life moves in a grand arc that begins with birth, proceeds through school and family and career and ends with the crossing of that final threshold, the end of life.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Hatch to lead MCS fiddle workshop

SANDPOINT –The very words, “music conservatory,” evoke a certain kind of image. For some, it might be the picture of a staid and purely classical environment.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Locals join crowd at D.C. rally

SANDPOINT – There are some in this nation who wish the “Parkland Kids” would just go away. When told, with a dismissive wave, that it was “too soon” to speak out after 17 of their classmates were killed by a semi-automatic-rifle-wielding gunman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, they ignored …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO

Grende calls shots in painting career

SANDPOINT — It is hard to ignore the bear in the corner. He looks terribly hungry, for one thing, and that almost maniacal focus in his eyes is unsettling, to say the least.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Mattox Farm lights up live music scene

SANDPOINT — There’s a new concert promotion company in town and, based on a recent string of highly successful shows, it’s rockin’ it here.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Sandpoint authors find own way into print

SANDPOINT — Here in the midst of the perennial Christmas quandary — what to give and what to receive — three local authors have come up with an answer. They have given themselves books.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

'Salon' launches literary collective

SANDPOINT — With two writing events scheduled within the span of a single week, it appears a literary Renaissance has visited itself upon the region.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

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SANDPOINT – The promotional material for David DaVinci’s magic show sets a high bar for his upcoming date at the Panida Theater. On Dec. 9, the illusionist and magician will take the stage with his wife and assistant, Sandpoint native Jamie (Morris) Womach, for two shows.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

CFHS grad stars as helicopter stunt pilot in action film

SANDPOINT — Talk about a hometown boy making good. Brian Reynolds, who grew up in east Bonner County and made a name for himself as a four-year starter in Wampus Cats football, has gone on to become one of the go-to guys in the movie world.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Men's coach celebrates gender differences

SANDPOINT — The topic of gender has always been explosive. Over the centuries, it has been a subject of supreme interest as the pendulum swings back and forth and the sexes strive to work out their roles at any given time.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Widows' groups reach out to women

SANDPOINT — Vivian Kirkwood knows what it means to be a widow. When her husband, Lee, passed away in 2015, she found herself at a personal crossroads. What she did at that critical juncture is nothing short of inspiring.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

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