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CSi Weather…
.TONIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY…Cloudy. Chance of rain showers in the morning, then rain showers in the afternoon. Cooler. Highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Cloudy. Rain showers likely in the evening,
then chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows in the lower
50s. North winds around 10 mph. Chance of showers 60 percent in the Jamestown area, 70 percent in the Valley City area.
.THURSDAY…A 20 percent chance of morning showers, in the Valley City area, then mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds
10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows around 50. North winds 5 to
10 mph shifting to the west after midnight.
.FRIDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance
of rain showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…Decreasing clouds. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
Highs in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY…Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs around 80.
Numerous showers and thunderstorms across all of western and central North Dakota late Tuesday night.
Numerous showers and thunderstorms are forecast Wednesday across
all of western and central North Dakota.
Scattered thunderstorms are forecast for Friday night and
Saturday. At this time this system does not look to
bring widespread chances of precipitation.
Jamestown (CSi) The Stutsman County Commission, Tuesday unanimously ratified the Drought Emergency Declaration signed July 25th by Stutsman County Commission Chairman Mark Klose.
Tuesday’s action by commission will continue the declaration from it’s original seven day approval period.
The declaration says that since early Spring 2017, Stutsman County has experienced very limited rainfall with some areas approaching six inches below average rainfall and worsening.
Stutsman County Assistant Emergency Manager Kim Franklin reports the county has remained the same since the July declaration.
The commission unanimously approved the declaration, which will continue it from its original 7 day approval period.
Valley City (CSi) The Valley City Commission met in Regular Session Tuesday evening at City Hall. All members were present.
City Administrator Schelkoph was not present.
Presentation of Block Parties, from Barnes County, On The Move with Andrea Winter.
She said Tuesday was National Night Out Day.
She pointed out that block parties help neighbors to get to know each other watch out for each other, concerning possible needs. She suggests inviting local law enforcement to the parties.
Block Parties may also stem crime.
She gave possible ideas, noting the Valley City web site has information on starting a block party.
Mayor Carlsrud read the Proclamation, proclaiming this summer as Block Party time in Valley City.
APPROVAL OF CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS:
Monthly Reports from the Fire Chief, Building Inspector, Auditor, Municipal Judge and Public Works Accountant.
Monthly Bills for the City and Public Works in the Amount of $2,310,746.01.
Raffle permit for Barnes County Ducks Unlimited, El Zagal Sheyenne Valley Flag Corps, Hi-Line Booster Club
Application to Block off the Street for VCSU on August 24, 2017 on Central Avenue from 4th Street to 2nd Street
PUBLIC COMMENT: No One Spoke.
ORDINANCE
The City Commission approved the Second and Final Reading of an Ordinance to establish a fee required by North Dakota Century Code to benefits local victims of crime.
NEW BUSINESS:
The City Commission approved purchasing and installing a tag axle on two garbage trucks at a cost of $7,600/truck
CITY UPDATES & COMMISSION REPORTS
Mayor Carlsrud asked resident to make VCSU new and returning students feel welcome to the community.
He reminded citizens to use discretion in water usage, and water lawns early morning, or in the evening hours.
City Auditor Richter said the preliminary 2018 city budget is being prepared and will be given to City Commissioners next week to start budget talks.
City Assessor Hansen next week will attend the North Dakota Assessors Conference and workshops along with attending the State Board of Equalization meeting in Bismarck.
KLJ gave an update on projects with the City Parking Lot improvements starting this week.
Kulm (CSi) The Kulm Community Development Corporation (CDC) will be hosting a housing development forum on August 16 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Kulm Community Center. No registration is required and there is no fee for this event, which is open to the public.
The forum will bring together rural communities and partners to share ideas on how to strengthen their economies and build on local assets. As access to affordable housing impacts economic development, discussion will focus on rural housing and shared challenges and opportunities. Not only will Kulm’s efforts be highlighted, but regional representatives will share how they have successfully addressed their community’s housing stock, infrastructure needs and their plans for the future.
Kulm Mayor Tony Buerkley will kick-off the meeting by showcasing community successes. Then, Andrew McDermid, president of the Kulm CDC, will moderate a panel of community representatives who include: Dan McKeever, the Mayor of Gwinner; Carol Peterson, Milnor Economic Development Coordinator; Bruce and Emery Lindgren, business owners in Kulm; and Dale Gackle, Kulm Housing Authority President. There also will be several agencies sharing resources to help meet individual and community housing goals through either financing or planning. Agencies participating include: USDA Rural Development, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the North Dakota Housing Finance Agency, Lutheran Social Services, the North Dakota Department of Commerce and the Bank of North Dakota.
A no-host luncheon will follow at the Kulm Cafe, located at 9 Main Ave. South. For more information, contact Sarah Gackle at 651-262-3577 or email sarahjoy.gackle@gmail.com.
Valley City (CSi) The North Dakota State Historical Society is interested in displaying the over 126 year old Barnes County jail, first jail registry book, at the Bismarck Museum.
The Barnes County Commission voted unanimously, Tuesday to retain the book at Barnes County, and allow the Historical Society to showcase it in the museum for a short period of time, if it is still interested in doing so in the future.
The Barnes County jail registry includes entries going back to 1891..
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A lawmaker says some sheriffs and county prosecutors are raising questions about a new North Dakota law that allows most adults to carry a hidden firearm without a permit.
The so-called constitutional-carry law took effect Tuesday and allows law-abiding adults to forgo background checks and classes.
But Mandan Republican Rep. Todd Porter says some law enforcement and prosecutors want to know if it’s legal to have a loaded weapon in a vehicle without a permit. Porter says he thinks it is, but he and other bill sponsors have asked for an attorney general’s opinion to be sure.
Porter says until the opinion is issued, people should not have firearms loaded in their vehicles.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A female sergeant who was fired from the Bismarck police force is accusing the department of discriminating against women.
Police say 37-year-old Robyn Krile was fired from her post in March as the result of an independent letter from a local prosecutor challenging her credibility as a witness.
But Krile says her termination felt like a final blow after years of perceived discrimination based on her gender, which she disputed in a complaint filed with the state department of labor in January.
Krile says she’s fighting to take back her career and even the playing field for women.
Police Chief Dan Donlin says Krile’s termination had nothing to do with the January complaint she filed.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A Park River man accused of providing fentanyl that resulted in an overdose death has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Twenty-six-year-old Zachary Chyle pleaded guilty in March to a pair of charges involving distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death.
Authorities say Chyle told investigators he provided fentanyl in August 2016 to 30-year-old Eugene Mecham, of Grafton. Mechem’s body was discovered by his father in the basement of the family home. An autopsy said it was a “sudden and unexpected death” associated with fentanyl intoxication.
Fentanyl is so powerful that some police departments have warned officers not to even touch it.
U.S District Judge Ralph Erickson also ordered Chyle to serve five years of supervised release and pay restitution of nearly $7,900.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — A man accused in a Grand Forks convenience store shooting is in custody.
Police say a person was shot and wounded at the Valley Dairy about 3 p.m. Monday. The victim was taken to the hospital with injuries that don’t appear to be life threatening.
Authorities say the 24-year suspect fled in a pickup truck before officers arrived at the store. Officers caught up with the man a short time later and arrested him.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Air National Guard has received its first new plane in more than 60 years — and it’s unmanned.
The MQ-9 Reaper drone was unveiled Tuesday in a ceremony at the 119th Wing in Fargo. It’s the first new aircraft flown by the unit since the base received T-33 trainers in the 1950s.
The Reaper is an armed, remotely-piloted aircraft that also conducts surveillance and search and rescue missions.
Col. Britt Hatley, the base commander, says the first flights over the Fargo area should take place later this month. The plane will eventually be flown to Camp Grafton in northeastern North Dakota, where airspace has been marked for training.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota has applied for nearly $14 million in funding from the U.S. government to help pay state law enforcement bills related to months of protests over construction of the Dakota Access pipeline.
U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp says the state in late June applied to the Justice Department’s Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance Program.
Even if the $13.85 million request is granted, it will make only a dent in the $38 million spent by the state.
Gov. Doug Burgum in late April asked President Donald Trump for a disaster declaration to pave the way for federal aid. The Trump administration denied the request in May.
The $3.8 billion pipeline built by Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners began moving oil from North Dakota to a distribution point in Illinois in June.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s Agriculture Department, North Dakota State University and a Michigan-based nonprofit are joining in an effort to help provide hay for drought-stricken ranchers in North Dakota.
The department and university have set up a site near the Fargo campus to accept hay donations that will be doled out to needy producers through a lottery process.
Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring says Michigan-based Ag Community Relief is spearheading a large hay donation to the state this month. The first hay drawing will be in early September.
The latest U.S. Drought Monitor map shows most of western North Dakota in extreme or exceptional drought, the two worst categories.
The federal Agriculture Department reports that nearly three-fourths of the state’s alfalfa hay crop is in poor or very poor condition.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Several American Indian tribes in the Dakotas are eligible for a federal program to return land on reservations to tribal control.
The buyback program was initiated by the Obama administration and has already spent $1.2 billion to purchase parcels of land with multiple owners and transfer them to tribal governments.
The Interior Department has announced a plan for doling out the remaining $540 million.
Tribes eligible in the Dakotas are the Three Affiliated Tribes and four Sioux tribes — Standing Rock, Spirit Lake, Cheyenne River and Rosebud.
The buyback program resulted from a lawsuit that alleged U.S. officials for decades mismanaged trust money held on behalf of hundreds of thousands of Indians.
In Sports…
Valley City (CSi-VCSU) – Valley City State University senior linebacker Nicholas McBeain has been named to the College Football America 2017 Yearbook NAIA Starting Lineup.
The honor is the CFA version of a pre-season All-America Team.
A native of Shakopee, Minnesota, McBeain is the all-time leading tackler in VCSU history. McBeain posted a school-record 188 tackles last season and led the NAIA in tackles per game (18.8). He broke five different season and career tackle records at VCSU during the 2016 season. His 446 career tackles are 80 more than the second best career total in Viking football history.
McBeain was named 2nd Team AFCA NAIA All-American and was a finalist for the Cliff Harris Award, which recognizes the best small college defensive player in the nation. He was also named 1st Team All Conference last season and has earned All Conference awards each of his three seasons at VCSU.
Valley City State University is coming off a 6-4 record, which included two victories over Top 25-ranked teams. The Vikings open the 2017 season on September 2, 2017, hosting Dickinson State University.
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The No. 2 Senate Republican leader seemed to suggest that the two parties should try working together on health care. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas did not specify what issues the two sides could address together. But his comments followed last week’s crumpling of the Senate Republican effort to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s health care law.
WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, President Donald Trump has been threatening to stop billions of dollars in government payments that reimburse health insurers for financial assistance to low-income consumers. It would be a way of forcing what he says is the inevitable collapse of “Obamacare.” But legal experts say such a tactic could backfire, handing insurers a solid court case against the government. State attorneys general are trying to intervene to preserve the payments.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s son-in-law says the Trump campaign couldn’t have colluded with Russia because the team was too dysfunctional and disorganized to coordinate with a foreign government. Jared Kushner, a senior adviser to the president, made the comment during a closed-door session with congressional interns on Monday. Kushner was responding to a question about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided Moscow’s election meddling.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Supporters of Leopoldo Lopez have a released a video he taped a week before state security agents whisked him back to a military prison. It shows the opposition leader calling on Venezuelans to be firm in resisting President Nicolas Maduro.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s choice to replace James Comey as head of the FBI is heading toward Senate confirmation. The Senate is slated to vote Tuesday evening on the nomination of Christopher Wray, the former Justice Department official who would inherit the FBI at a particularly challenging time given Comey’s firing.
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