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CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. NORTHWEST WINDS

10 TO 15 MPH. GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH IN THE EVENING.

.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S. NORTHWEST WINDS

10 TO 15 MPH.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S. SOUTHWEST

WINDS AROUND 5 MPH.

.FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY IN THE MORNING…THEN MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A

30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE

AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S. SOUTHWEST WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY. RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY IN

THE EVENING…THEN SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND

THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE MID 50S. CHANCE OF

PRECIPITATION 60 PERCENT.

.SATURDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS

AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.

.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S.

LOWS IN THE MID 50S.

.MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.

.TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS

AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.

 

THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY…THEN AGAIN MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown City Council’s Public Works Committee was updated Wednesday afternoon from Dakota Sanitation of Bismarck, and Renaissance Recycling of Jamestown, on requests for proposals for curbside recycling in Jamestown.  Council Member Gumke was not present.

Rick Anderson from Dakota Sanitation told the committee that the proposal is “single sort.”

He said a Jamestown recycling facility, would be established and ship the unsorted material,  to a Minnesota site, in Shakopee,  and that there would be no drop site.

He added that the weekly participation rate is 50-55%, and the monthly participation rate is expected to be 75%.

He explained that the pick up equipment that will be used, is 20 cubic yard trucks, every two weeks, to coincide with the garbage pick up day, providing a single container for residents to collect all recyclable materials allowed by the program.

Billing would be included on the monthly water bill.

It does not anticipate enough value in the recyclables to make any revenue share payments to the city of Jamestown.

He said a five year contract would likely involve a renewal to the contract with the city a the end of five years.

Ralph Friebel said, Renaissance Recycling would pick up with an automated cart, no glass is allowed, unlike the Dakota Sanitation, plan. The pick up would be every other week.   The material would be brought to the drop off site, with a manual sort, which will also be open to the public.

Six additional workers would be employed.

The material is then shipped out of town.

The present building would have to be expanded.

He is asking for a ten year contract with the city.

The proposal includes revenue sharing with the city, at 40%.

The Renaissance Recycling proposal includes a July 2017 program kickoff and Dakota Sanitation in the summer of 2017.

Both proposals included information in news releases and other methods of public information to explain the best ways to use the recycling program, as all residents would be charged for the recycling program.

Mayor Andersen suggested the city order in samples of the container sizes for the public to view.

Commercial businesses wanting to recycle would contract independently with either business.

Neither proposal includes the pay-as-you-throw plan, previously considered an option to operate the program to encourage recycling participation.

Mayor Andersen said a pay- as- you- throw plan is necessary, using variable container sizes.

Council Member Brubakken said the city needs to look at the city’s changes in garbage pick up concerning equipment or possible reductions in staff.

Council Member Buchanan also favors the pay-as-you-throw, plan.

He added that the contractor agreement should be of a substantial length to avoid uncertainties.

He said the fee of $5,000 a month to Renaissance Recycling would be eliminated, and suggested a subsidy.  He said public information will be needed, including savings under automated program.

Renaissance Recycling proposes a cost of $9.26 per residence per month for residential homes and trailer parks with the fee going down  to $6.30 per residence per month when apartments are added to the mix.

Fees are based on container size.

Jamestown City Beautification Committee, Chairperson Joan Morris said pay-as-you-throw, would establish costs based on how much is thrown into the landfill, versus recycled materials.

Questions and discussion concerned availability for condo residences, and how commercial collections would be made.

Dakota Sanitation  is proposing a cost of $9.42 per residence per month if only residential homes and trailer parks are included. The proposed cost goes down to $6.88 per residence per month if apartment buildings are also included.

Mayor Andersen said the city next needs to determine costs for automated equipment purchases.

Discussions of changes to the Sanitation Department, including a pay-as-you-throw system, and the term of the contract could take place during city Budget Hearings this month.

Recycling will be addressed again at the September Public Works Committee meeting.

The meeting was shown live on CSi 67, followed by replays.

 

Carrington  (CSi)  The Carrington City Fire Department responded to a call of  scrapped cars on fire Tuesday evening.

A spark from a cutting started a small blaze that quickly got out of control.

21 Carrington fire fighters responded with two pumpers and two tankers.

New Rockford and Jamestown Rural Fire Departments sent tankers and fire fighters to help keep flames from a  house and barn on the property.

Water trucks from Rosenau’s and Carr’s were sent to supplement the tankers.

No injuries reported with damage limited to the scrap pile.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) —  A federal judge in Washington, D.C., is considering a request by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe for a temporary injunction against an oil pipeline under construction near their reservation, which straddles the North Dakota-South Dakota border.

Tribal officials are challenging the Army Corps of Engineers’ decision last month to grant permits for Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners’ $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline that is intended to carry oil from North Dakota to Illinois.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg will hear the case Wednesday afternoon.

The hearing, which comes amid growing protests over the pipeline that would cross the Missouri River less than a mile upstream of the reservation, attracted dozens of protesters, including actress Susan Sarandon. She says the pipeline creates a “dangerous situation” that threatens the tribe’s drinking water.

 

MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — A county sheriff from North Dakota who was charged following a confrontation at a bar in Minnesota has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors.

Sargent County Sheriff Travis Paeper was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct as a result of an altercation at the Red Hen Taphouse in Dilworth May 14. Paeper pleaded not guilty.

Clay County Attorney Brian Melton has agreed to defer the charge for one year if Paeper has no other offenses and pays $150 in court costs.

Court documents say Paeper was sitting with three women who asked him to leave. Paeper told police that a woman hit him in the face five times. Police say Paeper was uncooperative when a Dilworth officer arrived and criticized the officer for not “backing a brother in blue.”

 

CROSBY, N.D. (AP) — Two children from Noonan after dead after a two-vehicle crash in Divide County.

The Highway Patrol says the 2-year-old and 8-year-old girls were passengers in a car that as rear-ended by a pickup truck at a construction zone on state Highway 5. Both vehicles overturned in the ditch.

The crash happened shortly before 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, about 3 miles east of Crosby. The car’s 31-year-old male driver and a 4-year-old boy who also was a passenger suffered serious injuries and were flown to a Minot hospital. They also are from Noonan.

The names of the victims were not immediately released.

The Chiefland, Florida, man driving the truck suffered minor injuries. A woman working as a flagger in the construction zone was struck by debris but not seriously injured.

 

EVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) — A Devils Lake man accused of burglarizing and burning down a fast food restaurant is set for trial later this year. Judge Donovan Foughty on Tuesday set a late-November trial start for Michael Ott and also rejected a defense request to bar some evidence and statements by Ott.

Authorities allege Ott set fire to a Hardee’s restaurant on Oct. 25, 2015, to cover up the burglary of more than $1,100. No one was hurt in the fire, but the blaze destroyed the business.

Ott faces felony arson and burglary charges along with misdemeanor drug-related counts. He could face more than 16 years in prison if convicted on all charges. He remains jailed.

 

MANDAN, N.D. (AP) — Some students who attend school in Mandan will be getting a police escort to classes due to a protest over an oil pipeline.

The Bismarck Tribune reports that the 28 students live south of a barricade put up on state Highway 1806 on Aug. 17 because of safety concerns related to the protest in southern North Dakota of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Opponents fear the $3.8 billion pipeline that’s to carry North Dakota oil to Illinois could leak and contaminate drinking water on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.

The Morton County Sheriff’s Office will send a patrol car to escort the students’ bus to and from school on Thursday, the first day of classes. Sheriff’s Office spokesman Rob Keller says the escorts will continue as long as necessary.

 

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The winter wheat harvest in North Dakota is wrapping up, and the spring harvest is progressing well ahead of the average pace.

The Agriculture Department says in its weekly crop report that the winter wheat harvest is 95 percent complete. About two-thirds of the spring wheat crop is in the bin, compared to the average pace of slightly more than one-third.

This year’s sugar beet harvest is getting underway in the Red River Valley, at 2 percent complete.

Pasture and range conditions in North Dakota are rated 56 percent good to excellent. Stock water supplies are 77 percent adequate to surplus. Both percentages are up significantly from the previous week.

 

CASSELTON, N.D. (AP) — Voters in the Central Cass School District will be deciding a bond issue to handle what district officials say is unprecedented student growth.?

Two previous referendums have failed, leading leaders in the Casselton area to come up with a proposal that combines public and private funding.

KFGO radio reports that the board last month approved an $18 million dollar referendum and another $8 million through private fund raising. An anonymous donor pledged $1 million contingent on the district raising its fund raising goal.?

The school district has purchased 20 acres next to the current school in Casselton for an elementary school addition, and a multi-use space for both use by the school and community. It would include a theater and auxiliary gym.

The vote is set for Oct. 4.

 

In world and national news…

AMATRICE, Italy (AP) — An Italian firefighter says an eight-year-old girl has been pulled alive from the rubble left by an earthquake that destroyed three central Italian towns on Wednesday. At least 120 people were killed — but there are no firm numbers on the dead and missing, since a large number of vacationers were in the area for the end of the summer. The quake reduced entire blocks of buildings to piles of sand and rock.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump is again urging African-Americans and Hispanics living in inner cities to give him a chance. Speaking in Tampa, Florida, Trump said that Democratic policies have only led to more poverty, crime, and joblessness in cities like Chicago and Baltimore. He said: “To those suffering, I say, vote for Donald Trump,” asking once again what they have to lose. Trump says that if he’s elected, he’ll make sure everyone can walk down the street without being shot.

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man who tried to travel to Syria with his fiancee to join the Islamic State group has been sentenced to eight years in prison on federal terrorism charges. Muhammad Dakhlalla was sentenced today by a federal judge. He pleaded guilty in March to one count of conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist organization. His fiancee was sentenced earlier this month to 12 years in prison. Prosecutors have said she converted to Islam while studying at Mississippi State, and that she talked Dakhlalla into the plan.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — It’s the first day of classes at the University of Texas — a little more than three weeks after a new state law took effect that allows concealed handguns in college classrooms and dorms. And hundreds of students protested that law Wednesday by waving sex toys at a campus rally. Several faculty members also attended the rally.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest scores from the ACT college entrance exam suggest many of this year’s high school graduates aren’t ready for college-level course work. In its annual score report released Wednesday, the testing company said only 38 percent of graduating seniors who took the exam hit the college-prepared benchmark in at least three of the four core subjects tested — reading, English, math and science. That compares with 40 percent last year. The benchmark is designed to measure a strong readiness for college.