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Roger Phillips: Countdown to next duck season has begun go to article

Duck hunting may be over for this season, but the memories live on as the countdown to next season officially begins.

Banff Mountain Film Festival go to article

If you love the thrill of outdoor adventure, you’ll want to be at the Banff Mountain Film Festival, a screening of some of the most inspiring and thought-provoking environmental short action films around. In this selection, culled from the more than 300 submitted, you’ll travel to remote landscapes for up-close, adrenaline-packed sports, such as “Reel Rock: Origins — Obe & Ashima,” pictured, which screens Feb. 5. Filmmaker Skip Armstrong introduces his kayaking shorts “Seasons: Fall” on Feb. 6 and “Seasons: Winter” on Feb. 7.

A bridge between winter and spring: Snow-free hiking, riding and more go to article

Enjoy sunsets in the Snake River Canyon by taking late afternoon hikes.

TAke A Look At This go to article

McCall Winter Carnival brings economic boost go to article

Idaho First Bank Reports Year-End Results and Continued Quarterly Income go to article

It's the End of the Festival--But the Garbage Keeps on Going go to article

School doesn't start until September 6th, and fall isn't supposed to officially arrive until September 23rd this year. But everything after the end of Sandpoint's summer music festival seems like the denouement of the season in Sandpoint. We even had a spot of rain yesterday. The iconic big tent is already down, rolled up and stored until next August. Smaller tents remain, along with huge collections of chairs, boxes, hoses, cables, coolers, dollies, tables, and garbage cans. But no garbage. The festival's impressive and activist all-volunteer Green Team has seen to that.

The Great Sandpoint Fish Flop Flap go to article

The family I grew up in was very particular about how a slice of a round cake was to lie on a plate. It was supposed to be positioned so that you could eat it from the inside out and from the bottom up. For all of us right-handers, this meant the frosting had to be to the left. A piece of cake with the frosting on the right was said to be "flopped wrong." This attention to direction has come to mind recently, as the citizens of Sandpoint have debated about whether the fish on their newly installed Sand Creek arch are flopped correctly. I thought the shiny metal back sides of the signs would all be on one side of the arch, so we would have shiny metal fish on one side and colorful fish on the other. Instead, the fish appear to have been more randomly flopped.

Clark Fork Officially Turns 100 go to article

It's evident that a lot happened around here 100 years ago. We celebrated the centennial of Sandpoint's founding a few years back, and shortly after that we celebrated the centennial of the long bridge that crosses Lake Pend Oreille to reach us. Kootenai and Bayview both celebrated centennials last year, as did the East Bonner County Library, and we also remembered--although we could hardly be said to have celebrated--the centennial of the great fires of 1910. On the weekend of July 4, we reached the centennial of the incorporation of Clark Fork, a village of some five or six hundred souls clinging to the upper inner edge of Idaho, just a few miles short of the Montana line.