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CSi Weather…
.TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain possibly mixed with snow and in the evening. Lows in the upper 20s. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation 30 percent in the Jamestown area, 50 percent in the Valley City area.
.THURSDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. Northwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows in the lower 20s.
Northeast winds around 5 mph shifting to the southeast around
5 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 30s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow in the Jamestown area, 60 percent in the Valley City area. Lows in
the mid 20s. South winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the west after
midnight.
.SATURDAY…Partly sunny. Highs around 30.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20.
.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 20s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows 10 to 15.
.MONDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 20s.
.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows around 15.
.CHRISTMAS DAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 20s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows around 10.
.WEDNESDAY…Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Highs in
the lower 20s.
Another potent clipper system will impact the area Friday and Saturday, with strong and gusty winds with chances of rain and snow.
Some light accumulations of snow are possible Friday night, mainly along/east
of a line from Minot to Bismarck, with higher amounts farther east.
Less than an inch of snow is expected.
The clipper will bring cooler conditions, with highs Saturday from the 20s across the northern tier of counties to the lower and middle 30s elsewhere. Lows Saturday night will be in the 10F to 20F range.
Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Police is warning Jamestown residents regarding a convicted sex offender who has changed his Jamestown address.
Nelson Whitetail, Sr. now resides at 518 9th Avenue, SE, Jamestown, ND
His vehicle is a 1979 Chevrolet Scottsdale, with North Dakota License Plate: 147BZR
Whitetail Sr. is a 62 year old American Indian male, five feet eleven inches tall, weighing 238 pounds with brown eyes and gray hair.
He has been assigned a high risk assessment by the North Dakota risk level committee of the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office.
Offense: Gross sexual imposition, involving two girls ages 11 and 13.
Conviction Date: March 1997 in Mercer County, North Dakota, District Court.
Disposition: 10 years.
Offense: Gross sexual imposition
Conviction Date: September 1988 in Burleigh County, ND, District Court.
Disposition: Five years, two years suspended.
Whitetail is not wanted by police 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 Nelson Whitetail, Sr, 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) The Jamestown City Fire Department was called to the parking lot of the Human Service Center, about 7:40-a.m. Wednesday.
Smoke was coming from a vehicle in the lot.
Lt Sheldon Mohr says the smoke was coming from an airbag that deployed, when the vehicle struck a sign post.
The occupant will seek medical treatment on her own.
Two City fire units and 22 firefighters were on the scene about 20 minutes.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Two Fargo lawmakers say the time is ripe to repeal Sunday business restrictions in North Dakota that have been in place since statehood and rooted in religious tradition.
Democratic Rep. Pam Anderson and Republican Rep. Shannon Roers Jones are sponsoring nearly identical legislation aimed at stripping the nation’s strictest so-called blue laws from the books.
“The time has come,” said Anderson, whose bipartisan measure was defeated by a handful of votes in the Senate last year. Three of the Republican senators who voted against the repeal are no longer in the Legislature.
“We were close last time and I think a couple of others, we can flip,” Roers Jones said. Her father, Fargo GOP Sen. Jim Roers, voted against the repeal last time and is expected to do the same this session, she said.
“We argue about it all the time,” she said.
Blue laws have existed since North Dakota became a state in 1889, stemming from fears that visiting a retail store on Sunday morning would compete with church and erode family values, leaving little time for rest.
Critics say Sunday shopping will not keep people from the pews and they hurt businesses, which must now compete with online shopping. The National Conference of State Legislatures says North Dakota is the only state that prohibits shopping on Sunday morning.
Anderson and Roers Jones point to the Legislature’s willingness to relax alcohol sales on Sunday, allowing restaurants and bars to begin serving alcohol at 11 a.m. on Sundays, instead of noon.
Proponents said North Dakota’s booze restrictions put cities bordering other states at a disadvantage because those states allow for earlier sales on Sundays. The argument also should be applied to all Sunday sales, Anderson and Roers Jones said.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Farmers packed a two-day conference in Fargo to learn about innovative ways to keep their fields healthy, as a new focus in the soil health movement encourages farmers to stop tilling the soil and plant cover crops after harvest.
Most Minnesota farmers still till their fields, but University of Minnesota Extension educator Jodi DeJong-Hughes said a growing number of farmers recognize that tilling isn’t sustainable and they are talking about planting cover crops.
DeJong-Hughes, who has helped organize conservation conferences for 14 years, told Minnesota Public Radio News that this year’s conference, which took place Tuesday and Wednesday, was so popular that she had to turn away people. She said this shows the growing interest in changing farming practices.
“It was surprising,” she said. “I mean, we’ve had growing interest, but this year it really took off.”
Steve Groff, a Pennsylvania farmer who was the conference’s opening speaker, said he’s been preaching the benefits of using cover crops and not tilling for years. He told attendees that changing the way they farm won’t be easy but it will be necessary, “because we live in a rapidly changing society, and farmers will be impacted by that,” he said. “They better stay up to date on what’s going on, so that they don’t become obsolete.”
Groff said there is growing pressure to produce food more sustainably, and most farmers understand they need to do more to protect the environment.
“I think farmers kind of intuitively know that, at some point, they’re going to have to justify every pound of nitrogen that they use on their farm,” he said. Excess nitrogen that runs off farm fields can pollute streams and drinking-water wells.
Minnesota’s buffer law, which protects streams from farm pollution, is a symptom of current farming practices, DeJong-Hughes said. She said she believes farmers can save money and improve water quality by planting cover crops, and the practice can reduce the need for costly nitrogen fertilizer and pesticides.
BISMARCK, N.D. (Dec. 19, 2018) – Gov. Doug Burgum Wednesday welcomed the latest estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau that show North Dakota’s population reached an all-time high of 760,077 residents as of July 1, 2018, an increase of 4,901 from last year’s revised estimate.
“We’re excited to see more people moving into North Dakota, and for good reason: Our economy is strong, our jobs are abundant and our quality of life is second to none,” Burgum said. “While this population growth affirms our state is on the right track, we still have thousands of jobs to fill, making it vitally important that we invest in workforce development and create healthy, vibrant communities to attract and retain a 21st century workforce.”
Migration into the state has returned to the positive column after two years of out-migration due largely to a slowdown in the state’s energy sector from 2015 to 2017.
“Births remained high, deaths did not climb as much as expected and migration returning to a positive figure is the story behind the estimate for the state’s population,” Census Office Manager Kevin Iverson said. “I think we are in a period of slower but more sustained growth compared to what we saw in the earlier part of the decade.”
North Dakota’s estimated 2017 population was revised down slightly to 755,176 residents from 755,393. Revisions are common and tend to grow larger toward the end of the decade as more time passes since the last decennial census, Iverson said.
With the estimate released today, North Dakota retains its status as the 47th most populous state, a ranking it regained when the state surpassed Alaska between 2013 and 2014.
Since the last decennial census, North Dakota has been one of the nation’s fastest-growing states – estimated to have grown by nearly 13 percent since 2010. Only four states – Colorado, Florida, Texas and Utah – are estimated to have grown by a higher percentage since 2010. Last year’s census estimate also placed North Dakota as the fourth-youngest state, a position Iverson said he expects the state to retain this year.
In sports…
UNDATED (AP) — The Twins will retire Joe Mauer’s Number 7 jersey next season, honoring the six-time All-Star who retired after a 15-year major league career. Mauer will become the eighth former Twins player or manager with a retired number.
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve has raised its key interest rate for the fourth time this year to reflect the U.S. economy’s continued strength but signaling that it expects to slow hikes next year.
The quarter-point hike, to a range of 2.25 percent to 2.5 percent, lifted the Fed’s benchmark rate to its highest point since 2008. The increase will mean higher borrowing costs for many consumers and businesses.
The Fed’s move came despite President Donald Trump’s attacks in recent weeks on its rate hikes and on Chairman Jerome Powell personally. The president has complained that the rate increases are threatening the economy. At a news conference Wednesday, Powell said Trump’s tweets and statements would have no bearing on the Fed’s policymaking.
The statement the Fed issued Wednesday after its latest policy meeting says “some” further gradual rate increases are likely; previously, it had referred simply to “further gradual increases.” But its updated forecast projects just two rate hikes next year, down from three the Fed had predicted in September. The new forecast also reduces the long-run level for the Fed’s benchmark rate to 2.8 percent, down from 3 percent.
U.S. stocks rapidly surrendered an early surge and wavered between small gains and losses Wednesday afternoon as investors reacted to the announcement. Stocks had been sharply higher before the Fed announced the rate hike. But bond prices rose, sending yields lower.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will soon withdraw all of the approximately 2,000 American troops from Syria, a U.S. official said Wednesday as President Donald Trump declared victory in the mission to defeat Islamic State militants there.
Planning for the pullout has begun and troops will begin leaving as soon as possible, said the official, who was not authorized to publicly discuss military planning and spoke on condition of anonymity.
On Wednesday, as Vice President Mike Pence met with top military leaders in the Pentagon, Trump tweeted: “We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.”
That declaration of victory is far from unanimous, and the withdrawal decision immediately triggered demands from Congress — including Republicans — for more information and a formal briefing on the matter. Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., who just returned from Afghanistan, said he was meeting with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis late in the day.
The decision will fulfill Trump’s long-stated goal of bringing troops home from Syria, but military leaders have pushed back, arguing that the IS group remains a threat and could regroup as it battles in Syria’s long-running civil war.
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