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DRY NO MORE: After 104-year alcohol ban, conservative Michigan town grants pizzeria its 1st liquor license.

If anything warrants breaking the four month hold on MichiBlogger, it’s this:

For the first time in more than a century, beer and wine by the glass will go on sale in a small, conservative city in Michigan with the granting of a liquor license to a pizzeria.

“We could be serving in six to eight weeks,” Vitale’s Pizza co-owner Ryan Snyder told The Grand Rapids Press for a story Tuesday.

Zeeland is a 6,000-member community with a conservative Dutch heritage, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) southwest of Grand Rapids. In November, voters approved an end to the 104-year-old alcohol sales ban, 1,425 to 1,385. Turnout was 73 percent.