CSi Weather…

 

.SUNDAY…Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of snow in the

afternoon. Highs around 15. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.

.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY…Partly cloudy. Lows around 10 below. Highs 5 to 10 above.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY…Mostly cloudy. Lows around

10 below. Highs zero to 5 above.

Light snow Friday will move out of the area by late afternoon.

Wind chills of 25 degrees or less can be expected for Saturday

night/Sunday morning along the International border. Wind chills

of 25 degrees or less is forecast for Sunday night/Monday morning. The low wind chills is expected to continue throughout all next work week…especially at night and in the morning hours.

 

 

Jamestown  (YPJ)  Members of the Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassador Committee and the Young Professionals of Jamestown presented the December Customer Service Award to Maximilian Kirchdorfer, employed by Hugo’s Market Place of Jamestown.

The chamber honors individuals who demonstrate a consistent commitment to delivering products or services that satisfy customers by exceeding their requirements or expectations.

Maximilian’s letter of nomination stated, “Max is always polite, is smiling and always willing to help out. He stops what he is doing just to assist people. He never stands around and visits, but is always there to help customers. We need more young people like him. He is a joy!”

Congratulations to Maximilian, who along with all the other monthly winners, will be recognized at the Chamber’s annual banquet in January 2018. Customer Service Award nomination forms are available at the Chamber office and on their website at www.jamestownchamber.com or call 701-252-4830.

 

Jamestown  (Chamber News)  The Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce understands the value of supporting the small business community in Jamestown. Promotional materials including shopping bags, magnets, entry rugs, posters and more were provided to 17 chamber member businesses to help them promote Small Business Saturday, which was held on November 25th.

The member businesses included Orriginals, Inc.; Brown and Saenger; The Arts Center; Gladstone Inn & Suites; Shubert’s Carpet One; Two Rivers Printing; The UPS Store; Zimmerman’s Furniture; Home Design Center; Medicine Shoppe; The Dakota Store; High Plains Water; Conlin’s Furniture; Professional Eyecare Center; Papa Murphy’s; Quiznos Sub; and the Easterseal Goodwill Retail Store.

These local small businesses were able to provide the promotional materials to their customers during this special day of recognition of how important it is to shop local and support the small, local businesses.

Small Business Saturday is an annual shopping tradition dedicated to supporting small businesses and celebrating communities across the country in their efforts to recognize the value of that support to the local economy. Founded by American Express in 2010, Small Business Saturday has been celebrated every year on the Saturday after Thanksgiving to provide community residents a chance to support their mom and pop stores, which in turn help support the local sales tax and wages paid to their employees, which provides direct support to the community.

This year’s event, sponsored by the Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce, wanted to recognize chamber members who provided both products and services. We thank them for participating in this event, and thank those who shop locally to help sustain our community.

For more information on shopping local and supporting chamber members, please contact the Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce at 701-252-4830, or check out the business directory on our website at www.jamestownchamber.com.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — More deputies have left the McKenzie County Sheriff’s Office since North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum reinstated the sheriff four months ago.

The Bismarck Tribune reports that eight deputies have resigned since Sheriff Gary Schwartzenberger’s return in August. Three of the deputies whose last days were in December took law enforcement positions at other agencies. Two other deputies filed grievances with the state Labor Department.

Former Deputy David Christensen says he will likely file a complaint as well. He says Schwartzenberger brought a “negative atmosphere” into the agency.

Schwartzenberger was suspended from his position last year by then-Gov. Jack Dalrymple during a removal proceeding on allegations of bullying and retaliation. He’s scheduled for a misdemeanor trial in February related to unauthorized use of a county credit card.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A federal agency is turning to the University of North Dakota to help alleviate a pilot shortage.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is offering part-time jobs to underclassmen at the Grand Forks school with hopes they will help protect the country when they graduate.

Students will work as aviation enforcement trainees and earn as much as $14 an hour while going to school. There are $100,000-a-year jobs waiting for them when they graduate.

The so-called Pathways Program is open to sophomores and juniors at North Dakota, which was selected for the fledgling project partly because it’s close to the security branch that guards the northern border.

UND Aerospace Assistant Dean Ken Polovitz says the program illustrates opportunities in aviation. He says regional airlines are also recruiting students as sophomores.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Unemployment rates dropped to record lows in Alabama, California, Hawaii, Mississippi and Texas in November.

The Labor Department’s report on state unemployment showed rates fell in 19 other states, a positive sign for U.S. economic growth. Over the past 12 months, 27 states have added payroll jobs — with largest absolute gains in Texas, where the number of jobs climbed 330,600. California was second in job additions with 288,300. Job totals have essentially been unchanged in 23 other states.

Hawaii reported the lowest seasonally adjusted unemployment rate at 2 percent. The unemployment rate was below 2.7 percent in Nebraska, New Hampshire and North Dakota. In total, 17 states have unemployment rates below this national average of 4.1 percent.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota School Superintendent Kirsten Baesler says a new “school dashboard” offers parents and taxpayers an easier way to look up information about how schools are performing. People can use it to view data about individual schools and districts. It can be accessed from the Department of Public Instruction website and the North Dakota Insights website. It currently includes information about graduation rates and test results, and will be updated.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — More deputies have left the McKenzie County Sheriff’s Office since North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum reinstated the sheriff four months ago. The Bismarck Tribune reports that eight deputies have resigned since Sheriff Gary Schwartzenberger’s return in August. Three of the deputies whose last days were in December took law enforcement positions at other agencies. Two other deputies filed grievances with the state Labor Department.

 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Associated Press analysis finds that Americans in states that President Donald Trump carried in last year’s election account for most of those who signed up under the Obama health care law. The analysis of new figures from the government found that 7.3 million of the 8.8 million people signed up thus far for next year come from states Trump won. That’ll be in the background when Congress returns to another installment of the long-running health care debate.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed into law a $1.5 trillion bill that provides generous tax cuts for corporations and the wealthiest Americans, plus smaller cuts for middle- and low-income families. It is the first major overhaul of the nation’s tax laws since 1986. The tax cuts are expected to add $1.5 trillion to the national debt.

UNDATED (AP) — The Republican tax overhaul includes an expanded child tax credit at the insistence of Republican Sen. Marco Rubio. But the benefit for poor families will vary. Experts say the expanded credit will provide little relief for some of the lowest-income families. An analyst with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities expects about 10 million children among the lowest-income working families to receive a token increase or none at all.

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — This year’s historic hurricane season exposed a little-known public health threat: Highly-polluted Superfund sites can be inundated by floodwaters, potentially spreading toxic contamination. In Houston, more than a dozen Superfund sites were flooded by Hurricane Harvey, with breaches reported at two. In the Southeast and Puerto Rico, Superfund sites were battered by driving rains and winds from Irma and Maria.

PARIS (AP) — Journalists chase stories, but now hackers are chasing journalists. An AP investigation into the Russian cyberespionage collective known as Fancy Bear has found that the group has gone after scores of reporters, bloggers and television personalities. One Russian media figure says that hackers are hunting for information “which they can use as leverage for later.”