Is that a chain saw I hear?

Look in the archives for my year-end posting on December 26, 2004:

2005: We are waiting for Jimmy to deliver..............his first pizza. Is there a Family Dollar in our future? Can 56572 support three full service banks? Blandin looking for leaders. When will the Mean Caffeine open? Where will the new PRHS be located? When can we vote on it? Sale pending on Johnson's Furniture?

The old news on the street is that the old Merlin Rieman house (SW corner of Broadway & 10th Ave SW) was sold this week and all the trees on the lot will make way for a Family Dollar store:



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I'm going to miss the trees. Time will tell if we need yet another dollar store.