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Dickinson's wait for Wings ends

Bartenders at Buffalo Wild Wings Grill and Bar cut lemons and limes shortly before opening at 11 a.m. Monday, the restaurant’s opening day in Dickinson.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The wings are ready and the beer is flowing at Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar in Dickinson.

The long-awaited restaurant officially opened its doors Monday after a weekend training opening that packed its roughly 8,300 square foot facility in the West Ridge Development on Saturday night and whet the community’s appetite for the city’s first new national chain restaurant in more than a decade.

“We’re expecting this to be one of the busiest Buffalo Wild Wings in the franchise,” said Ken Herslip of Minot, who along with his family owns the Dickinson, Minot and Williston franchise locations.

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Just another Black Friday: Stores take ‘all-hands-on-deck’ approach anticipating deal hunters

Rachelle Bliss, left, helps customer Janel Ladbury of Dickinson on Friday afternoon at Ace Hardware at the T-Rex Plaza.

Stores take ‘all-hands-on-deck’ approach anticipating deal hunters

Customers flooded Dickinson stores Thursday night and throughout the day Friday, hunting for deals and officially kicking off the holiday shopping season. Yet, store managers in a city known for having employee shortcomings said they were able to keep pace well, despite hectic instances. “This is our all-hands-on-deck thing,” Herbergers store manager Sarah Molnar said. “This is our year right here. So basically, we’re all here.”

Herbergers was the first retail store other than Walmart to open on Thanksgiving Day, starting its deals at 6 p.m. It stayed open through the night and, by 3 p.m. Friday, still had customers waiting in long lines at service counters waiting to pay for the deals they’d discovered.

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JLG Architects sets up shop in downtown Dickinson

JLG Architects branch manager Rob Remark works Oct. 31 at his makeshift desk in his temporary offi ce in the first floor of the historic Elks Building in downtown Dickinson. The space is still under construction and Remark is the firm’s lone Dickinson employee, at least for the moment.

Rob Remark is a lonely soul. At least for the time being.

“We’re moving,” he said as he smiled and sat down in his barren, temporary office on the first floor of the historic Elks Building in downtown Dickinson.

For now, Remark’s desk is a folding table, and his conference table is the kind you play cards at. He doesn’t have anything on the walls. In the area that will become his office, there are two large, antiquated restroom urinals — among other junk — in the process of being removed from the building.

None of that has stopped Remark — the manager and, for now, the lone employee of JLG Architects’ newest branch — and his firm from making inroads in his new community.

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Pheasant outlook optimistic: Hunters flock to Regent as season begins

Lee Donner, right, a Regent native who now lives near Waco, Texas, chats Friday with his friends Jim Stipcich, middle, of Helena, Mont., and John Gerbino, left, of Short Hills, N.J., at a campground off Main Street, Regent.

REGENT — This small southwest North Dakota town typically has two busy seasons: harvest and hunting.

The latter kicks off this morning with the opening of the state’s pheasant hunting season — and Regent is one of the places to be.

Like many rural North Dakota towns this weekend, Regent’s population of about 170 more than doubles, and bars and the little lodging it has fi ll up as hunters from around the state and nation flock to the outdoorsman’s paradise.

“It gets crazy,” said Karen Kouba, co-owner of the Cannonball Saloon and the city’s auditor. “It’s hard to find help just for this period of time. But I think we’re staffed OK this year.”

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‘A different route’: Strategic plan in place for state scenic byways

The Old Red/Old Ten Scenic Byway, also known as Highway 10, begins on the east outskirts of Dickinson. It’s the longest scenic byway in the state at 108 miles.

Robin Reynolds owns a small business in Hebron, a southwest North Dakota town along Highway 10 about 2 miles off of Interstate 94.

Like so many other small towns in the state, Hebron has seen busier times.

“When the interstate came in, these small towns emptied out,” Reynolds said.
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