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Sandpoint—Spotlight City

Posted on May 1, 2022 by Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey / Comments Off on Sandpoint—Spotlight City

In with the Old and New By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey On a clear blue day in the summer of 2018, I peered out the windows of a building in downtown Sandpoint and saw the city for the first time—metaphorically,
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Howe—Spotlight

Posted on April 1, 2022 by Anna Sermon / Comments Off on Howe—Spotlight

And the People of the Little Lost River Valley By Anna Sermon The wind in Howe often blows from the west, as it did on October 18, 2012, when the dance hall-bar-restaurant and the store, storage barn, and
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Smelterville—Spotlight

Posted on March 1, 2022 by Mary Terra-Berns / Comments Off on Smelterville—Spotlight

Boom to Bust and Back Again By Mary Terra-Berns On a beautiful sky-blue but slightly blustery day last June, I flew at two thousand seven hundred feet from Coeur d’Alene to Missoula, Montana with my friend LaDonna Beaumont
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Idaho Falls Spotlight

Posted on February 1, 2022 by Bruce Bash / Comments Off on Idaho Falls Spotlight

The Pros and Cons of Popularity Story and Photos by Bruce Bash After two decades of publication, IDAHO magazine has begun to revisit some of our Spotlight City selections of previous years. Here’s a new look at Idaho
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Reynolds—Spotlight City

Posted on January 1, 2022 by Ray Brooks / Comments Off on Reynolds—Spotlight City

From Stage Stop to Scientific Site By Ray Brooks My quest to follow the 1864 route of the Reynolds-to-Silver-City stage line suddenly ended in several bangs. I was far into the Owyhee Mountains on a rough, narrow, seldom-traveled
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Roberts—Spotlight

Posted on December 1, 2021 by Amy McClellan / Comments Off on Roberts—Spotlight

A Town Tailored to Its History By Amy McClellan My family has a long-standing personal connection to Roberts—a town of about six hundred and fifty residents fifteen miles north of our home in Idaho Falls—through our frequent visits
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Moscow—Spotlight

Posted on November 1, 2021 by Miranda R. Carter / Comments Off on Moscow—Spotlight

The Pull of Home By Miranda R. Carter The magazine first visited Moscow as a Spotlight City in our April 2002 issue. We figured it was time to have another look. It was one of those nights that
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Samuels and Sam—Spotlight City

Posted on October 1, 2021 by Eloise Kraemer / Comments Off on Samuels and Sam—Spotlight City

A Town and Its Ghostly Sibling By Eloise Kraemer I have a long association with Samuels and Sam, two sibling communities that are namesakes of the same man. My mother was born and raised in Sandpoint, and for
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Leslie—Spotlight City

Posted on September 1, 2021 by Kathy Corgatelli NeVille / Comments Off on Leslie—Spotlight City

Big Views, Big Mountains By Kathy Corgatelli NeVille When I was growing up on our family ranch east of Darlington in the Big Lost River Valley, I never gave much thought to Leslie, a little settlement a few
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Peck—Spotlight City

Posted on August 1, 2021 by Robyn Bonner / Comments Off on Peck—Spotlight City

A Piece of Heaven By Robyn Bonner and the Students of Peck Elementary School At Peck Elementary School, where I teach, I recently shared with my students in grades three to six the idea of collaborating on a
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