Rohly’s really does have free beer Sunday nights
February 2nd, 2012 by jeffbahr
It’s true. Rohly’s has free beer every Sunday night.
This Sunday will be the third time folks can drop in for a free one. “It’s tap beer, not bottled beer, but they can have all the beer they want from 8 to 12,” says owner Pat Rohl.
Rohl doesn’t even mind if somebody has a free beer and then leaves.
“I’ve found that once you get somebody in the bar, that’s 3/4 of the problem,” he said.
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I simply can’t conceive of Aberdeen without the State B basketball tournament.
But Aberdeen’s most famous sportswriter says the new megapalace in Sioux Falls will likely draw the Big B away from its ancestral home.
The respected scribe predicts that every tournament — basketball, volleyball, wrestling — will migrate to Sioux Falls.
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As I say in response to most things, “That’s not the way they do it in North Dakota.”
Even though its largest city has a building that surpasses anything Sioux Falls could ever imagine, in the Peace Garden State tournaments rotate.
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Justin Sanford, the second candidate to interview for the Northern AD job, presented a spiral-bound 30-page booklet about himself, specially customized for the Northern position.
Inside he has a 30-day plan, a 60-day plan and a 90-day plan in place if he gets the job.
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One of the things Mayor Mike Levsen worries about is that “we’re running out of pheasants.”
On the drive to Pierre, he says, there are fewer pheasants than he used to see.
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Dawn Seiler refers to her defense as an “amoeba,” according to Aberdeen’s friendliest sportswriter.
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Ryan Deal actually went looking for our copy of the Mobridge Tribune this week.
“I expect it on my desk next Thursday, though,” he said.
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A lot of people are wondering if Brad Wilson saw his shadow on Thursday.
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Around here, a ground hog is called a woodchuck.
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I hope my wife thinks of me as honey. But I’m afraid she equates me more with mustard.
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Some people say that Aberdeen has more bike/walking paths than Sioux Falls or Rapid City.
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I was worried about Dan Richardt, who was clearly in a slump. But he kept his head down and believed in himself. Now the former ace business reporter is back.
Once again, we can count on him for the hot scoops.
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McDonald’s new McBites aren’t too bad. They’re a whole lot more natural than McNuggets.
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Dave Vilhauer says he’ll never again speak at the annual convention of the South Dakota Funeral Directors Association.
“They won’t have me back. There was too much dead time,” he says.
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Barry and Monica Eske spent a week in Mexico.
Did it help their marriage?
“No,” Monica says.
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We bid a fond adieu to golfer Dean Shortridge.
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We have established that Christopher & Banks is the store that remains at Lakewood Mall after the merger.
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A local journalist says a family can make the scuzziest character in the world sound like a saint in his obituary.
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“The ’70s and ’80s were just the period during which the best soul music was created and the best records were done,” Don Cornelius told the Los Angeles Times.
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I’m so lonely during my wife’s absence that I’ve even discovered “Freaks and Geeks.”
So that’s where Seth Rogen and Jason Segel came from.
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