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CSi Weather…
TONIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows 15 to 20. Northeast winds around 10 mph.
.THURSDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs around 30. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows around 15. East winds around 10 mph.
.FRIDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. East winds around
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows around 15. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows around 20.
.SUNDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…Cloudy. Chance of snow possibly mixed with rain
in the evening, then chance of snow after midnight. Lows in the
lower 20s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.MONDAY…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of snow in the
morning. Highs in the lower 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow.
Lows 15 to 20.
.TUESDAY…Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of snow in the
morning. Highs in the lower 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20.
.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.
A low pressure system out of the Rockies on Sunday, will move east across the central US through Tuesday.
There is high uncertainty about its track and how much
precipitation will make it into our area, with a chance of rain or snow Sunday through Monday night for western and central North Dakota.
Update
Jamestown (CSi) A suspicious package left at the South Central Human Service Center in Jamestown, Tuesday afternoon, contained only a written correspondence, “not of concern.”
That, according to Jamestown Police Chief Scott Edinger, who told CSiNewsNow.com Wednesday afternoon that police responded to the scene stemming from a call for service, late Tuesday afternoon.
Edinger said the package was secured by police officers around 5 p.m. Tuesday and taken to the Stutsman County Law Enforcement Center in Jamestown where the Jamestown Fire Department and Hazardous Material Response Team from Fargo, investigated the contents, along with other law enforcement authorities, at the scene.
Chief Edinger said the package(s) and the correspondence was sent to the North Dakota State Health Department and state crime lab, as the FBI along with other authorities continue the investigation.
He said the health department and state lab will determine, and verify if there may have been any type of residue in the package, that was not seen, or if it may have been dumped out at some point.
He added that no foul play is suspected, and no other suspicious packages had turned up in Jamestown. He said that during the initial phase of investigations, information is inconsistent until more information is learned.
Authorities are talking with individuals that may have seen something, or possibly been involved in the incident, that will aid in the on-going investigation.
Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Police is warning residents of a high risk sex offender who is living in Jamestown.
Gary Lee Amyotte is a 54 year old American Indian male, five feet seven inches tall, weighing 214 pounds with brown eyes, and brown hair.
He currently resides at 2605 Circle Drive at the North Dakota State Hospital.
He has been assigned a high risk assessment by the North Dakota risk level committee of the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office.
He was convicted of Aggravated Sexual Abuse in November of 1998 in U.S. Federal Court, in North Dakota, involving raping an 83 year old developmentally disabled female he encountered while she was walking along a dirt road, dragging her into an area of brush.
Disposition: 120 month, 5 years supervised release.
He was convicted of Gross Sexual Imposition in July of 1989, in Rolette County, North Dakota District Court, involving dragging a woman into trees attempting to rape her.
Disposition: 7 years, to serve remaining 3.5 years.
Amyotte is currently on GPS monitoring.
Amyotte is not wanted by police at this time and has served the sentence imposed by the court.
This notification is meant for public safety and not to increase fear in the community, nor should this information be used to threaten, assault, or intimidate the offender.
Any attempts to harass, intimidate or threaten these offenders, their families, landlords, or employers will be turned over for prosecution.
Printed handouts of the demographics of Gary Lee Amyotee are available at the Jamestown Police Department.
More information on registered sex offenders is available at the North Dakota Attorney General’s web site: www.sexoffender.nd.gov
Jamestown (CSi) In a show of solidarity, a number of Jamestown High School students, Wednesday morning, at 10-O’Clock, joined a nationwide classroom walkout to protest gun violence, following the mass shooting on Valentine’s day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida where 17 were killed, the number of minutes the walkout lasted .
Before a moment of silence, Jamestown High School students gathered on the school’s front sidewalk, as a student read the list of names of the students and staff killed at Parkland.
Jamestown Public School’s released a statement concerning the Walkouts.
“Students in some communities are planning protests against gun violence. We know that the issue of guns in our society is a controversial and divisive issue. We will neither encourage nor prevent student participation in such activities although we will treat these like any other school absence. We will strive to keep school as normal as possible, and to discourage activity within school that creates conflict. We encourage parents to talk with their children about the right to protest, and about how they will respond to requests to participate, or how they will respond to those that choose to do so.”
Principal Adam Gehlhar says around 50 of their 650 students joined in the walkout, peacefully.
He said some (students) did not follow the protocol for parents excusing the absence and consequences will be enforced as per our policy.
(AP) Around the nation, students left class at 10 a.m. local time for at least 17 minutes — one minute for each of the dead in Florida. At some schools, students didn’t go outside but lined the hallways, gathered in gyms and auditoriums or wore orange, the color used by the movement against gun violence.
Over and over, students declared that too many young people have died and that they are tired of going to school every day afraid of getting killed.
“Enough is enough. People are done with being shot,” said Iris Foss-Ober, 18, a senior at Washburn High School in Minneapolis.
Some schools applauded students for taking a stand or at least tolerated the walkouts, while others threatened punishment.
About 250 students gathered on a soccer field at Colorado’s Columbine High, while students who survived the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack in 2012 walked out of Newtown High School in Connecticut.
In joining the protests, the students followed the example set by many of the survivors of the Florida shooting, who have become gun-control activists, leading rallies, lobbying legislators and giving TV interviews. Their efforts helped spur passage last week of a Florida law curbing access to assault rifles by young people.
Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Public Works is informing residents that due to the changing weather conditions causing extremely muddy conditions in the alleys, the City Sanitation Department announces that effective Monday, March 19, 2018, the City Sanitation crews will no longer be picking up garbage in the alleyways.
Until further notice, please place garbage containers on the boulevard no further than 3’ from the curb on your scheduled pick up day.
Please place garbage out for pick up by 7:00 a.m. Trucks WILL NOT return to the area due to missed garbage placed out after the scheduled garbage route has been completed.
Jamestown (CSi) This year’s Ice Show’s theme is “Magnificent Musicals.”
Show dates and times at John L. Wilson Arena are:
Friday March 16th at 7-p.m.
Saturday March 17th 2-p.m., and 7-p.m.
Sunday March 18th 2-p.m.
Tickets are available in advance at $8 for adults, $6 for students, and two dollars more at the door. Advance tickets must be purchased by Thursday afternoon, March 15th.
Advance tickets from any skater, along with Neighborhood Grocery and Gifts from the Heart, in Jamestown.
Elementary school students are being given tickets allowing free admission if accompanied by a paying adult.
Returning to the Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Judy Jorgenson said, a special addition to this year’s ice show, is the Alumni Skate. Out of the five alumni skaters two are currently stay at home mom’s, one with three young children and another with one child. One skater is currently in college, one recently finished college and will be working in forestry/conservation, and one other attending law school in Boston, and is currently practicing in a Jamestown law firm.
On our show a returning alumni skater, Chelsea Huber said the alumni skaters have put together their routine, and have been rehearsing the past week.
Chelsea is currently a Junior at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Judy added that there will be three seniors performing this year’s show, choreographed by Club Professional and Coach Mark Vasarhelyi.
Musical numbers this year will have the members skating and performing in a wide variety of music styles, and features solo numbers, and group skates.
The Jamestown High School hockey teams will have representatives performing in the show as well.
She said the James River Figure Skating Club was in competition last weekend in Fergus Falls, Minnesota.
She said after this last performance of the season the JRFSC collected:
10 fourth place metals, 25 third place, 34 second place, and 70 first place metals.
Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown airline boarding in February this year, and year to date numbers are off slightly from a year ago.
The North Dakota Aeronautics Commission reports, in February this year Jamestown boardings were 1,036 compared to 1,199 in February 2017, a decrease of about 13 percent.
Through February this year Jamestown airline boardings were 1,956 compared to 2,061 through February of 2017.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A former LaMoure police chief is awaiting sentencing on several child sex crimes in three southwestern North Dakota counties.
KXMB-TV reports 52-year-old James Watson entered an Alford plea Tuesday to multiple charges related to child sexual abuse in Hettinger and Stark counties. The plea is not an admission of guilt but acknowledges there is enough evidence for a conviction.
A jury in Golden Valley County last month convicted him of continuous sexual abuse of a child.
The charges date back to 2011.
Watson faces life in prison without parole. A sentencing date has not been set.
Update…
TOWNER, N.D. (AP) — A judge has reduced bond for a Minnesota man charged with attacking a priest in North Dakota, though not as much as the suspect wanted.
Judge Donovan Foughty on Tuesday lowered bond for 42-year-old Chad Legare from $250,000 to $200,000. Legare’s attorney had requested $100,000 but Foughty declined to go that far, citing the severity of the charges against the Alexandria, Minnesota, man.
Legare is accused of assaulting Rev. Robert Wapenski Jan. 30 at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Anamoose. He could enter pleas to attempted murder, aggravated assault and burglary during his next court appearance, on April 19.
Legare during an earlier hearing made a reference to the priest being a rapist. Court documents show Legare believed Wapenski had sexually assaulted Legare’s girlfriend.
Authorities haven’t discussed a motive.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Congressional committees and farm groups have crafted language to fix a provision in the federal tax overhaul that gave an unintended tax advantage to farmers who sell their crops to cooperatives instead of other buyers. Both sides are now trying to get the agreement included in a massive spending bill that needs to pass next week. The U.S. Department of Agriculture endorses the deal but the National Farmers Union opposes it.
OBERON, N.D. (AP) — No cattle were killed when a semitrailer hauling 67 head rolled onto its side in a ditch on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation.
The Highway Patrol says the driver of the semi lost control on a curve on U.S. Highway 281 near Oberon on Tuesday morning.
Area ranchers helped haul the cattle to Devils Lake to be inspected for injuries.
The driver wasn’t hurt. He was cited for care required.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A new shelter for the homeless being proposed in Bismarck could also include a detox center.
A subcommittee of the Mayors’ Gold Star Community Task Force is working on a permanent homeless shelter plan after Ruth Meiers Hospitality House closed its men’s emergency shelter in October.
Bismarck City Commissioner Nancy Guy updated the task force on the committee’s efforts on Tuesday, the Bismarck Tribune reported . Guy said the committee is looking into location and agency options, as well as best practices. She said the committee is also considering co-locating with a social detox center.
“There’s a lot more to it than just a shelter,” Guy said. “There is connecting the clients to all of the solutions to get out of that homeless position and be successful members of our community and that deal with the issues that have gotten them where they are.”
Guy said the homeless shelter and social detox center could share resources and ensure “there’s a warm hand-off from one agency to the next,” for those people transitioning between services.
Guy also discussed efforts to gauge the faith community’s interest in banding together to provide homeless services.
The Missouri Slope Areawide United Way has filled the emergency shelter gap for the area since last fall. The agency opened a temporary shelter in a downtown apartment complex last week that is expected to be open until July.
“United Way is committed to sheltering there until July 1 or sheltering, period, until July 1,” Guy said. “It is our goal to have another agency in line to take over for them when that time frame is done.”
Community leaders will gather together for a stakeholders’ meeting to discuss shelter needs in April.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Democrats are preparing for an annual convention featuring speeches from Sen. Heidi Heitkamp and former Vice President Joe Biden as they look to build enthusiasm for a midterm election expected to be favorable for their party nationwide.
But as the party gathers in Grand Forks, its outlook at home is challenging.
Heitkamp faces a tough re-election fight against Rep. Kevin Cramer in one of the nation’s mostly closely watched Senate races. Three Democrats are trying for the House seat Cramer is leaving.
But the party has no declared candidates for attorney general and agriculture commissioner — positions that make up two-thirds of a panel that oversees energy development in the state. Democrats are also still searching for many legislative candidates as they try to chip away at Republican supermajorities in both chambers.
The convention starts Thursday at the Alerus Center, with most key business — including the Heitkamp and Biden speeches and an endorsement in the House race — happening Saturday.
Party Chairwoman Kylie Oversen, said she expects all candidate spots to be filled. She said Heitkamp’s past success in the conservative state has bolstered enthusiasm among delegates and office-seekers.
More than 625 delegates are expected to attend, which would be higher than the Democrats’ three previous conventions, said Daniel Tick, a state party spokesman.
In sports…
Bismarck (NDHSAA) Team seeding and drawing for the 2018 North Dakota High School Activities Association’s State Class B Boys Basketball Tournament are set.
The top five teams were ranked through an online voting process by coaches of the participating schools with the remaining three teams being randomly drawn to determine quarterfinal matchups.
Matchups for Thursday, March 15 in Bismarck:
1:00 p.m. – #2 Seed St. John vs. Wyndmere/Lidgerwood (Second Random Draw)
2:45 p.m. – #3 Seed Bishop Ryan vs. Shiloh Christian (Third Random Draw)
6:30 p.m. – #1 Seed Hillsboro/Central Valley vs. Beulah (First Random Draw)
8:15 p.m. – #4 Seed Stanley vs. #5 Seed Carrington
The 2018 NDHSAA sponsored State Class B Boys Basketball Tournament will be held March 15-17 at the Bismarck Event Center located at 315 South 5th Street, Bismarck, ND 58504. Dave Zittleman, Activities Director for Bismarck Public Schools, will be the tournament manager.
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