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CSi Weather…
.TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of rain and snow in the evening. Lows in the mid 20s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY…Cloudy. Chance of snow in the morning, then snow
likely in the afternoon. Snow accumulation around 1 inch. Highs
in the lower 30s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance of snow
60 percent in the Jamestown area 40 percent in the Valley City area.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…Cloudy. A 30 percent chance of snow in the
evening in the Jamestown area, 40 percent in the Valley City area. Lows 15 to 20. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 20s. Northwest
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows around 15.
.THURSDAY…Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of snow in the
afternoon in the Jamestown area. Highs in the mid 20s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows 5 to 10 above.
.FRIDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs 15 to 20.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows 5 to 10 above.
.SATURDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 20s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow.
Lows 10 to 15.
.VETERANS DAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 20s.
…STRONG WINDS ALONG WITH SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW TUESDAY…
Strong northwest winds of 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph are
expected across western and central North Dakota Tuesday.
Snow, with accumulations between 1 and 3 inches is forecast for
northwest, north central, and the northern James River Valley.
The strong winds combined with the falling snow will result in
slippery roads and reduced visibilities. Motorists are urged
to slow down and be aware of rapidly changing visibilities.
People planning travel across northern and parts of south central
North Dakota on Tuesday should allow plenty of time for travel. Slow
down and be aware of rapidly changing visibilities and road
conditions as you travel. Let others know your plans, and carry a
winter survival kit in your vehicle.
Tuesday night through the end of the week,on and off chances for light snow with slightly greater chances Thursday and Saturday nights.
Temperatures take a dive as well, with highs in the teens and 20s
on Wednesday through Friday and lows dropping into the single
digits by Thursday night.
Jamestown (CSi) Voters go to the polls in Stutsman and Barnes Counties Tuesday, to make their voices known in the 2018 County and District 29 legislative races.
In Stutsman County three candidates will be elected to the Stutsman County Commission in contested races, along with the Stutsman County Sheriff.
County Measure Number One asks voters if they favor increasing the 9-1-1 Emergency phone system monthly fee.
Voters in District 29 will elect a state senator and two state house of representative candidates.
Barnes County voters will elect candidates in races in Barnes County Commission Districts, two, three and four along with Barnes County Sheriff and State’s Attorney.
Polls at the Jamestown Civic Center are open from 7-a.m., to 7-p.m., along with rural district polls, in Medina, Kensal and Pingree.
One poll for Barnes County is open from 7-a.m., to 7-p.m., at the central voting location at the Barnes County Courthouse.
Voters will also elect state candidates for various offices, along with a U.S. Senator, and U.S. Congressman, along with ballot measures including legalizing recreational marijuana.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Fire Department responded to a car fire Sunday evening at the University of Jamestown campus behind Kroese Hall at 10:21 p.m.
Jamestown Police on the scene reported the fire was out, just before, 10:30-p.m.
The report says the fire was caused by an engine malfunction, with the vehicle likely a total loss.
No injuries reported.
JFD responded with four City Fire Units, and 17 fire fighters on the scene about 20 minutes.
Monday morning, about 11:05, the Jamestown Rescue Squad was called to a location south of Medina where a boater on a body of water was in need of assistance.
The unit was called back to Jamestown when it reached the Cleveland area as they were not needed to assist.
No other information was immediately available.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council met in Regular Session, Monday evening at City Hall.
All members were present.
HEARING FROM THE AUDIENCE: No one spoke.
CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS DISCUSSED SEPARATELY:
Item G was removed by Council Member Brubakken, a Resolution to approve the water utility rate adjustments for 2019, concerning minimum fees, at $25.91. He suggested $12.90 for multi-residential and mobile homes.
The item was modified to the minimum monthly fee and to include the monthly garbage fee.
City Administrator, Sarah Hellekson said garbage pick up walk up to the outside of houses, will be a monthly charge of $20, using the garbage bins, by contacting City Hall.
She said three months is the minimum time frame for the service.
The City Council approved the rate adjustment to include the three month minimum.
The walk up service includes recycling.
Item J was removed by City Administrator Hellekson due to changes in the language, a Resolution to approve the Declaration of Slum and Blighted Area and authorize the application for state funding to improve slum or blighted areas of the City’s main street, which includes the area between 2nd Avenue SE and 2nd Avenue SW from 9th Street SE to 1st Street E, which application and program requires no matching City funds.
The language was changed in terms of the location, adding to the area.
The Council Members approved the changes.
Also approved without discussion was:
Resolution:
The City Council voted to accept the UGP-2-052(043)264 Cost Participation and Maintenance Agreement for the $3,100,000 City of Jamestown Urban Grant Program Project, for which the City must match ten percent of the project costs estimated at $310,000, to be funded through the City’s Special Assessment Deficiency Fund.
REGULAR AGENDA
ORDINANCES:
A PUBLIC HEARING was held: Concerning an ordinance to change the zoning of property located at 124 3rd Avenue SE from M-1 to C-1.
Following the Public Hearing A SECOND READING of an Ordinance, was approved to amend and re-enact the City Code by amending the District Map to change the zoning of Jamestown Original, Block 31, E100’ of Lot 16 & 17, and E100’ of S20’ of Lot 18, from M-1 (Limited Industrial and Manufacturing District) to C-1 (Local Commercial District). The property is located at 124 3rd Avenue SE. A former church to be converted into a residence.
MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBER’S REPORT:
Council Member Brubakken said on Monday November 19th a public informational session will be held concerning which residential streets, and avenues will be switched from alley garbage pick up to curb side. More information to come from City Hall.
Council Member Steele pointed out that former Jamestown Mayor Katie Andersen has accepted the position of Jamestown Regional Airport Manger.
Council Member Pam Phillips invited Civic Center Manager Pam Fosse to speak on the recently held rodeo there.
She said the city street department brought in and hauled out the dirt.
She added that the officials attendance numbers were not yet available.
Any complaints about horses and trailers were handled by rodeo officials.
Mayor Heinrich pointed out positive comments have been received on the Jamestown Citizens Police Academy. Police Chief Scott Edinger said 15 people enrolled in the Academy, with instruction from various law enforcement agencies.
He added that the Homestead tax credit program is available to senior citizens, and those income eligible. The City Assessor has more information.
He said a video crew from Gulf Point Mississippi were given a tour by Mayor Heinrich of Jamestown, including the Buffalo Pasture. The production company produces an outdoor, t.v. program. Include in the tour was Jack Brown Stadium, and Harold Newman Arena, along with the exterior of Historic Franklin School, where Louis L’Amour went to elementary school, as they indicated interest in the life of Louis L’Amour. The School is now the home of the CSi Technology Center, including CSi Cable and Computers.
Included in the tour was city hall.
The meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 67, followed by replays.
Jamestown (UJ) University of Jamestown faculty will be presenting on topics in their areas of expertise during events called “Faculty Firesides.” These events are free and open to the public. Each will begin at 7 p.m. in the Raugust Library lobby on the University of Jamestown campus.
The first event, “The Role and Value of Christian Education in the New Millennium,” will be held Nov. 6, 2018. Data strongly indicate a national trend towards a faith-at-work movement, as more individuals seek to integrate their spiritual lives and work lives. President Dr. Polly Peterson, Chaplain Rev. Dr. Candace Adams, and Assistant Professor of Communication and Director of Character in Leadership Liz Hunt will discuss the current trends and future forecast for Christian institutions of higher education related to the development of faith and spirituality within students and the future workforce.
The second event, “The New Tax Code: An Accountant’s Eye View,” will take place Dec. 4, 2018. Associate Professor of Accounting Vicki Greshik, CPA, will talk about the December 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and how it affects individuals. She will address the changes in tax brackets, loss of personal and dependency exemptions, the revised standard deduction, changes in itemized deductions, and tax credits.
The third event, “Monarch Butterflies: To List, or Not to List, That is The Question,” will be held Jan. 15, 2019. Monarchs have become a conservation icon in North America. After providing an overview of the monarch life cycle and migration, Professor of Biology Dr. Michelle Solensky, will focus on monarch conservation. She will also describe anthropogenic threats to monarchs and other organisms that share their habitats, and discuss potential implications of the upcoming endangered species listing decision.
The final event, “Linda W. Slaughter: How a Woman Won the West,” will take place April 2, 2019 and will be presented by Professor of English Dr. Sean Flory.
For a listing of these events, please visit uj.edu/ff
Jamestown (Chamber) Members of the Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassador Committee and the Young Professionals of Jamestown presented the Customer Service Award for November to Clyde Rueb of Walmart for his outstanding customer service. The chamber honors individuals who demonstrate a consistent commitment to delivering products or services that satisfy customers by exceeding their requirements or expectations.
Clyde’s letter of nomination stated, “Every time I walk into Walmart and Clyde is working, he’s got a huge smile on his face! He’s always to kind and talkative and very helpful when needed. Even when I’ve had a crazy day and have to go into Walmart and it’s crazy busy, I know that if I get to see Clyde my day will be made. I think he truly encompasses all the qualities of someone with exceptional customer service!”
Clyde, who along with all the other monthly winners, will be recognized at the Chamber’s annual banquet in January 2019. Customer Service Award nomination forms are available at the Chamber office and on their website at www.jamestownchamber.com or call 701-252-4830.
Voters also will choose a new U.S. House member to replace Cramer. GOP State Sen. Kelly Armstrong of Dickinson is facing Democrat Mac Schneider, a businessman and attorney. He served in the state Senate from 2009 until his defeat for re-election in 2016. Armstrong is a lawyer and the former chairman of the state Republican Party.
The other statewide races on the ballot are attorney general, secretary of state, public service commissioner, tax commissioner and agriculture commissioner — all jobs now held by Republicans.
Voters will also see several ballot measures, including one to legalize recreational marijuana just two years after they said yes to medical marijuana. Another would amend the state constitution to enact several ethics measures, including banning foreign money in elections and creating an independent ethics commission. A third would explicitly block noncitizens from voting, even though it is already illegal for them to vote.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Republican Kevin Cramer says he thinks he’s leading Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp but the race is closer than polls suggest.
Cramer voted early Monday in Bismarck. He told reporters that his campaign’s internal polling show him leading by double-digits, but he says he’s still worried about the election.
He said he remembers Heitkamp trailing six years ago but going on to beat Rick Berg in a close race.
Heitkamp is battling hard for a second term, with a statewide bus tour that was wrapping up on her home turf of Fargo on Monday.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A former Burleigh County sheriff’s deputy accused of stealing evidence from drug cases has pleaded guilty to felony theft and misdemeanor drug possession under a conditional agreement.
The Bismarck Tribune reports that a misdemeanor theft count against Kerry Komrosky was dismissed. The conditional plea also allows him to appeal an order denying suppression of evidence and withdraw his plea if the appeal is successful.
Komrosky was charged in April after investigators reportedly found 2.9 pounds of methamphetamine and 47 grams of cocaine in his home. He later resigned.
The North Dakota Peace Officer Standards and Training Board suspended his peace officer’s license in May pending the outcome of his criminal case.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Standing Rock Sioux is challenging new government conclusions that the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline poses no significant environmental threats to American Indian tribes in the Dakotas.
The Army Corps of Engineers in August finished more than a year of additional study ordered by a federal judge. The agency said the work substantiated its earlier determination that the chances of an oil spill are low, any impacts to tribal hunting and fishing will be limited and that the project does not pose a higher risk of adverse impacts to minority and low-income people.
The Standing Rock Sioux tribe, which is leading a four-tribe lawsuit against the four-state pipeline built by Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners, in court documents filed Thursday asked a federal judge to reject the findings.
“The corps has conducted a sham process to arrive at a sham conclusion, for the second time,” tribal Chairman Mike Faith said in a statement.
The pipeline has the capacity to move half of the oil produced daily in North Dakota, the nation’s second-leading producer behind Texas. It passes just north of the Standing Rock Reservation, beneath a Missouri River reservoir that is the tribe’s water source.
The pipeline has been moving North Dakota oil through South Dakota and Iowa to a shipping point in Illinois since June 2017. That same month, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled that the Corps largely complied with environmental law when permitting the pipeline but needed to do more study of its impact to tribal rights. The Corps filed its work with the court in late August.
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is kicking off his final campaign blitz before the midterm elections by declaring that “everything is at stake.”
Trump’s first stop Monday was in Cleveland, where he stumped for Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, the Republican candidate for governor.
He bashed DeWine’s Democratic opponent, Richard Cordray, whom he declared “a bad person” who “has hurt a lot of people.”
The midterm elections have become a referendum on Trump, who urged the crowd to maintain Republican control in both the House and the Senate.
He says, “In a sense, I am on the ticket.”
But in recent days, Trump has distanced himself from Republican efforts to hold the House, which most pollsters believe could flip to the Democrats.
After Ohio, Trump will travel to Indiana and Missouri.
ATLANTA (AP) — Tuesday’s midterm elections will mark the first nationwide voting since Russia targeted state election systems in the 2016 presidential race, with federal, state and local officials seeking to reassure the public their voting systems are secure.
Federal authorities say there have been no signs that Russia or any other foreign actor has tried to launch cyberattacks against voting systems in any state.
The Department of Homeland Security has been working over the last year to improve communication and intelligence-sharing with state and local election officials. It says systems are running smoothly so far.
The same can’t be said about early voting and the voter registration process in some states.
Voters casting ballots early have encountered faulty machines, inaccurate mailers and voter registration problems, among other concerns.
ATLANTA (AP) — The Republican candidate for Georgia governor has alleged with little evidence that Democrats sought to hack a voter database that will be used in Tuesday’s elections.
Republican nominee Brian Kemp made the allegation just as reports emerged of a gaping vulnerability in a system that he controls as secretary of state. Democrat Stacey Abrams says she believes her opponent “cooked up the charge, because he realizes, once again, he left the personal information of six million voters vulnerable.
Kemp is not only running Georgia’s elections, he’s also the Republican candidate for governor, and in response to reports of the flaw, he’s accusing Democrats of trying to hack the system.
Abrams appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Monday. The program said it gave Kemp an opportunity to appear, but he declined.
Polls suggest Kemp and Abrams are locked in a tight race in a contest that has taken on historic significance because of the potential of Abrams becoming the nation’s first black female governor.
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC says that “after further review,” it will stop airing President Donald Trump’s campaign advertisement that featured an immigrant convicted of murder.
The advertisement aired on “Sunday Night Football” and on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday.
CNN rejected the same ad, declaring it racist. That drew a public rebuke from the president’s son, Donald J. Trump Jr.
The advertisement includes footage of Luis Bracamontes, a twice-deported immigrant from Mexico sentenced to death in California for killing two police officers
NBC said Monday that in its further review, it recognizes the insensitive nature of the ad.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Officials in Mexico City say hundreds of migrants have arrived in the capital from the caravan that set out from Central America more than three weeks ago.
Nashieli Ramirez, ombudsman for the city’s human rights commission, said more than 500 migrants arrived Sunday at the Jesus Martinez stadium on the eastern side of the city, where they were served hot meals and supplied with blankets to spend the night.
City officials are preparing to soon receive as many as 5,000 migrants at the stadium, which has capacity to seat 6,000. Ramirez said the migrants may stay as long as necessary.
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