Large San Marzano tomatoes are sun ripening on the vines in Maebeth Fulmer’s backyard raised beds, dense and verdant with winter squash, basil, cantaloupe, and zucchini plants, to name a few.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
SANDPOINT — An extended soaking-wet spring made it more challenging for Sandpoint’s Organic Agriculture Center staff on North Boyer, but you wouldn’t know it by the 200-plus pounds of vegetables donated to the Bonner Community Food Bank, so far, from its garden this summer.
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SANDPOINT — It has been 21 years since Linda Larson’s daughter suffered a traumatic brain injury from a fall while riding horseback in an English jumping competition.
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SANDPOINT — Combining artwork with hiking, Lillian Lassen and her young daughter Pearl have created a special bond. They’ve also created a seven-part mother and daughter series of “happy paintings” entitled “Sandpoint Mountain Flora Paintings” on display at two locations at the Pend Oreille Arts Council’s ArtWalk show.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
SANDPOINT — Residents and visitors alike love the Panida Theater, the anchor of our downtown, where performers such as the late John Prine, Emmy Lou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, Jesse Colin Young, Taj Mahal, Jerry Jeff Walker, Keb Mo,’ Wynton Marsalis, Arlo Guthrie and Joan Baez have livened our lives on …
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SANDPOINT — St. Joseph’s Catholic Church members are saying goodbye this week to their beloved priest, Father Dennis Day, who has served parishioners in Sandpoint for the past 24 years. At age 70, the priest is retiring and moving back to his hometown of Boise.
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COCOLALLA — If you really want to support our local economy and its agricultural community, it is not only possible, it’s easier than ever now that Thomas and Darla Fletcher have opened the Only Local Farmers Market in the log cabin near the post office in Cocolalla.
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SANDPOINT — Taking something no one wants, ugly and worn out, and recycling it into affordable wearable art, is what Lacey Inge of Sagle finds gratifying about making earrings out of exhausted bicycle inner tubes.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
SANDPOINT — Sandpoint-area residents are generous, as evidenced by the money contributed through Idaho Gives’ fund drive for the many nonprofits in Bonner and Boundary counties.
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PONDERAY — Hunger can lead to anger and frustration. The term for that is “hangry.” It is a word often bandied about while people have to wait for dinner longer than desired in a restaurant — hunger plus anger equals hangry.
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Going to Sandpoint’s Ecstatic Dance is not anything like going out to dance at a bar on the weekend — where people might throw back a drink or two to get loose, go out on the floor to shuffle their feet a bit, trying not to move their arms, hoping …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
When you find yourself so isolated that you are talking to your colander, well, it’s really OK; everyone reacts to stress differently. But as we go through this elongated period of life during a pandemic, many people are dealing with fear, anxiety, sleeplessness, and they are getting sick of their …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
SANDPOINT — While searching for Valle Novak’s house, an older gentleman walking down Schweitzer Road responded to this writer’s query about locating her home:
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She provides clothing for the homeless and the poor in Sandpoint, as well as counseling for the poor-in-spirit. People know her as “the clothes lady,” and they cherish her.
SANDPOINT — The kid with the tree house in his backyard was the envy of the neighborhood “back in the day.” It was probably a mature oak or a maple tree where daring kids would make the often tricky climb up to a splintery board or even try to swing …
SANDPOINT — Ernest Hemingway wrote a short story entitled “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” about the need everyone has to go to an actual place where inner darkness fades, and where the shadows of one’s heart brighten.
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SANDPOINT — Sandpoint’s sunrise whisperer has retired into the heavens, and the heavens are exactly what people think of when they think of Kirk Miller.
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Some of us think we know everything, even what others are thinking, but that is generally just arrogance or impatience with listening, unless you know Joey and Phina Pipia, the father-and-daughter team who read minds for a living.
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An art gallery in Sandpoint that is still going after 25 years may be as scarce as hen’s teeth, but Ward Tollbom at Hen’s Tooth Studio is still painting finely detailed pictures of wildlife — after all these years.
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