SHELBY — The Prairie Peddler Coffee and Gift Shop will reopen its doors this weekend after a fire destroyed their original home in January 2024, marking a triumphant return for the beloved Shelby business.

Owner Kelli Lohr said the fire was devastating and left the future looked uncertain. Prairie Peddler set to re-open in Shelby

"It was pretty devastating. And we weren't quite sure what was going to happen, but it was pretty hard for us to sit and watch everything, that day and not knowing what was going to happen after that," Lohr said.

Her son Klayton Lohr received the shocking news through a text from a neighbor: "'Your mom's store is on fire.' And so I alerted my parents and, and in the town, we came. And, by the time we got here, the fire department was busy fighting the fire a

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