Local Blogs: Too Many Goodbyes

Pecky Cox/As The Lake Churns
A little girl digs for coins at this year’s Huckleberry Festival in Priest Lake to benefit the Priest Lake Search & Rescue organization.

I know I’m not alone in experiencing the ever-increasing moments of sadness when local obituary columns are filled with faces and names I’ve known forever. This morning’s paper provides yet another example of the cruel reality that “good byes” here are becoming much too redundant. Today our community must say good bye to Tom DeMers, Harry Roberson and Dona Meehan. I know that it would take several sets of fingers and toes to add up the years I’ve known these three Sandpoint folks who passed away over the past few days/ Marianne Love , Slight Detour. More here .

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* Lost stuff /Tumblewords
* Natural consequences /A Butterfly Moment
* Junkies of the St. Joe /The Skinny On North Idaho
* Phantoms of the melodrama /Silver Valley Girl
* Wake up struggle /Synaptic Disunion
* Reading /TUBOB
* Pearls Before Swine wisdom /Wayward Episcopalian
* 3BT: Juniper Pizza, coffee at Theo’s, juicy Huckleberry /Kellogg Bloggin’

Question: Are you a regular reader of newspaper obituaries?