A penny saved is a penny earned, as Sagle Elementary kids learned firsthand Wednesday morning. A trail of third graders filed their way toward the coin counter machine at Panhandle State Bank bearing jars filled with spare change. One by one, the kids...
In the spring of 1812, fur agent and surveyor David Thompson left the Inland Northwest for good, paddling upstream from Kettle Falls in late April with a canoe brigade that carried almost five tons of beaver pelts. On May 8th he struggled up Athabasca...
A young man was plucked from the Pend Oreille River late Friday night after he reportedly crashed his bicycle into a guardrail on the pedestrian side of the Long Bridge and went over the side of the span. A passing motorist apparently saw the crash and...
On the phone, Dwain Miller's voice has all the resonance and distinctive character of a radio announcer. Not surprisingly really, since he spent some time in the broadcast booth and on the air. These days, Miller's involvement in the radio world is...
A legal challenge of a controversial subdivision expansion at the north end of Priest Lake is being put to rest. The Mosquito Bay Fen Preservation Association filed a petition for judicial review last year in an effort to block the enlargement of the...
Nestled at the base of the Selkirk Mountains in North Idaho's Panhandle region, the community of Sandpoint can be found 60 miles south of the Canadian border and 75 miles northeast of Spokane, Washington. With a population of approximately
7,000 residents, Sandpoint is located in a land of uncompromising natural beauty on the northern shore of Lake Pend Oreille (pronounced Pon-der-ray).
A spectacular, glaciated body of
water 43 miles long, Pend Oreille is the fifth deepest lake (1,158 feet at its greatest depth) in the United States with 111 miles of shoreline. Its pristine waters are a major factor in the community of Sandpoint's high ranking as a premier tourist destination.
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