29+ min ago   (662+ words) Sawyers Bakery combines Sandpoint heritage with European flair By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Ever since Sawyer opened her first brick-and-mortar business, filling the old Image Maker space at 320 North First Ave. with European, monochromatic charm, the place has been packed with…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1166+ words) Third-generation Sandpointian returns to open The Cakery on First By Ben OlsonReader Staff Abby Stolfo’s road to opening a new business led her back home to Sandpoint. The third-generation Sandpointian recently opened The Cakery on First, located at 323 N. First…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (298+ words) Pine Street Farm to Table — once a simple farm stand turned market and bakery — will welcome guests to its second annual community dinner celebrating locally grown food at the very garden it grew from (11742 West Pine St., in Sandpoint). This…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1062+ words) A couple of weeks ago, I gathered a couple of my grands for our summer call of duty to Silverwood. While sitting on a bench waiting for them to complete another circuit on the Ferris wheel, I found myself beside…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1058+ words) “Mimi, you told me that you invented fry sauce,” declared Fern. I explained that while it’s my favorite condiment and I often make up a little batch at home, I certainly did not invent it. “Well,” she argued, “you told…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (729+ words) By Zach HagadoneReader Staff The Bonner Community Food Bank is on the verge of a major new phase in its more than 40 years of serving area residents with free food assistance, after acquiring a new location in Ponderay. Executive Director…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (877+ words) In Ireland, cream runs as thick as an authentic Irish brogue. Real cream. Not the apologetic half-and-half that passes for luxury here at home, but proper heavy cream with substance, character and the faint sweetness that comes only from deeply…...

7+ mon, 5+ day ago   (860+ words) by Ben Olson · January 28, 2026 By the time the pizza boxes were opened and the checks handed over, six fourth-graders at Priest Lake Elementary were already grinning. What they didn’t know was that the gingerbread house they built for the Festival…...

8+ mon, 3+ day ago   (306+ words) by Ben Olson · December 30, 2025 By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff New Year’s Eve parties and Champagne toasts go hand-in-hand in the modern imagination, but though the beloved sparkling wine is now an institution, it had a long, forgotten history of successes and…...