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High Plains Dice and Games celebrating second anniversary, new location

High Plains Dice and Games celebrated its second anniversary and its new expanded location with a Logan County Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting on Wednesday.

Now located at 100 Broadway Street, Suite 12, in Sterling, the store offers a variety of classic board games, card games and tabletop role-playing games. With the growth their business has seen since it opened owners Shelby and Alan Brandes were feeling the need for more space, which prompted their move to their new site just a few doors down from their previous storefront in the Broadway shopping plaza.

The new store features several expanded games rooms and services including birthday parties and private events. They also offer a chance to rent games, so you can see if you like them before purchasing them. There are no video games though.

“We want to move people away from screens and get them actually talking to each other across a table, that’s one of our big goals,” Shelby said.

Along with games, the store offers a book club that meets on Thursdays. The focus is mostly on science fiction and fantasy-related books. Shelby said they try to keep most of the books available in the store but if they don’t have them she encourages participants to go to Sterling Public Library to check out the book.

She has books picked out for the remainder of the year, so feel free to come in and look at the list to see if there’s something that appeals to you.

Additionally, this summer High Plains Dice and Games will be participating in Northeastern Junior College’s Kids College with several offerings for various age groups from elementary to middle school.

Next week, the store will be holding a second anniversary sale May 3-5 and they will also be celebrating Star Wars Day on May 4 with a costume contest and some Star Wars demo games.

Shelby and Alan would like to give a special shout-out to Josh Hutt, Tyson Urrutia and Michael Yearwood, who were instrumental in helping to build out the store’s new space and “really helped us make the store what it is,” Shelby said. Plus, they would like to thank the group of 15-20 store regulars who helped them actually move.

“We just appreciate so much that Sterling as a community really came together to help us make the store what it is and we’re just so glad that we can provide as much as possible for the community,”  Shelby said.