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Following the cancellation of the 2020 North Dakota State Fair due to the uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, the show will go on. The State Fair has announced its entertainment lineup for the July 23-31 run.
Once again country music headliners will appear before grandstand crowds, but there’s a good mix of entertainment regardless of age or musical preference with some impressive and well-known names scheduled to perform – Lynyrd Skynyrd, Dan + Shay, Ashley McBryde, Sawyer Brown, Casey Donahew, Billy Idol, and Kane Brown.
Opening for the fair will be Lynyrd Skynyd, a legendary rock band that just keeps on rock & rollin’. The ever popular band has its roots in Florida in 1964, lost several band members in a fateful plane crash in 1977, and has since rebounded to remain a top draw wherever it perform. It has more than 60 albums to its impressive history and really struck the charts with the blockbuster hit “Sweet Home Alabama�
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Brian Billingsley, director of community and economic development for the City of Minot and co-chairman of a zoning ordinance steering committee, opens a copy of the updated zoning ordinances approved by the Minot Planning Commission and scheduled for consideration by the Minot City Council.
Minot residents and developers could find the city’s zoning rules easier to understand and navigate if the Minot City Council adopts revisions approved by the Minot Planning Commission Tuesday.
The update was a two-year project that rewrote many of the current zoning ordinances and packaged them in a more user-friendly manual.