CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows around 10 below. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Wind chills around 25 below.

.WEDNESDAY…Increasing clouds. Highs around 10. South winds 5 to

15 mph. Wind chills around 20 below.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of

snow. Lows around 5 below. East winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the

north 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Lowest wind chills around

20 below after midnight.

.THURSDAY…Partly sunny. Patchy blowing and drifting snow

through the day. Highs zero to 5 above. Northwest winds 15 to

20 mph.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows around 15 below. Northwest

winds 10 to 15 mph.

.FRIDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs zero to 5 above.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows around 10 below.

.SATURDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs 5 to 10 above.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows around 5 below.

.SUNDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs 5 to 10 above.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of snow in the

evening. Lows around 10 below.

.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs zero to 5 above.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows around 10 below.

.TUESDAY…Partly sunny. Highs zero to 5 above.

 

A cold Thursday and Thursday night with the arctic high over our
area. Lows Thursday night should be 10 to 20 below zero.

Friday through Monday… a large west coast low to move east across the Rockies and expand in size, encompassing much of western and central US/Canada.

This will bring off and on chances of light snow and continued below average temperatures with highs mainly from zero to 10 above…and lows zero to 15
below zero.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  Jamestown Public Schools will have school on March14, 2019 regular school hours.  This is the make-up day from February 7th storm.

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corporation (JSDC) at Monday’s monthly board meeting, approved a Flex PACE interest buy down.

On Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable two, JSDC Business Development Director, Corry Shevlin said, the request was made by Whitney Bruins, who is purchasing a share of Downtown Dental.

A Flex Pace interest buy down provides a grant from the Bank of North Dakota, along with a loan from the JSDC to reduce interest costs on the business loan.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  University of Jamestown  students will assist the Jamestown Parks and Recreation Department in developing  a strategic plan..

Park Board President, Mindi Schmitz said at Monday’s monthly meeting that after more talks with  the staff of UJ’s Master of Arts in Leadership program, the students agreed again to pursue the Parks and Recreation as a project study.

The UJ students previously considered the project turning down the opportunity but now,  approved the project at no charge to Parks and Recreation

The Park Board also approved on a 2-1 votes requests for $237,900 in additional equipment and projects for 2019.

Park Board Commissioner Mike Landscoot voted no.  Members Mark Ukestad and Mike Soulis were not present.

Projects include bleacher repairs and a reconstructed  press box at Jack Brown Stadium.

Additional dollars will go toward a forklift at Two Rivers Activity Center, and two triplex mowers at Hillcrest Golf Course.and utility carts at Hillcrest Golf Course, plus  renovations and repair items at Eagles and Wilson arenas.

The topic of the Pingree-Buchanan School District busing issue will be discussed a special Park Board  meeting, on Wednesday February 13 at 5:30-p.m.

 

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A West Fargo man has been sentenced to a year and one day behind bars after his 8-month-old daughter drowned in a bathtub.

Twenty-eight-year-old Spencer Foner pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in November. Foner told police he put his daughter in a device that allows very young children to sit up in the tub, ran the water and went to the kitchen for no more than five minutes. When he returned to the bathroom, the child was floating face up.

KVRR reports the girl’s mother asked Judge Susan Bailey not to sentenced Foner to time behind bars because she would be taking him away from their two other children. But, Bailey said gross negligence resulting in a death called for incarceration.

Foner was also ordered Monday to serve two years of probation.

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s House has killed legislation supported by Gov. Doug Burgum that would have the state change its higher education governance from one board to two.Representatives defeated the bill by a 74-19 vote.Burgum says multiple boards would allow the North Dakota’s 11 colleges and universities “to more quickly respond to the needs of the state.”The two-board proposal is a shift from a three-board panel that a task force formed by the governor had recommended.Legislative leaders say they are more amenable to expand the current board that oversees the state’s higher education system. A resolution is expected to be introduced to do that.Any change to the higher education board would have to be approved by voters.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s Republican-led House has passed a measure that would outlaw sobriety checkpoints in the state.The House voted 79-14 Tuesday to approve the bill that requires “reasonable suspicion for certain traffic stops.”

Bismarck GOP Rep. Rick Becker was the measure’s primary sponsor. He says sobriety checkpoints are ineffective and don’t act as a deterrent.

Becker says “roving saturation patrols” do more to get drunken drivers off the road.

Becker unsuccessfully pushed similar legislation two years ago.

The measure now goes to the Senate for consideration.

 

Update…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s House has killed a bill to remove what backers describe as subjective language in the state’s breastfeeding law.The House defeated the measure 61-32 on Tuesday.Women may breastfeed in public if they do it “in a discreet and modest manner.” The bipartisan bill aimed to remove that language, and also make it illegal to prohibit a mother from breastfeeding.Several mothers and women’s groups lobbied North Dakota lawmakers Monday to approve the legislation. The bill came after an incident at a Fargo restaurant last year when a woman was told to leave because she was breastfeeding her baby without a cover.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A valve failure is being blamed for a spill of more than 46,000 gallons of saltwater in Bottineau County.The state Oil and Gas Division says 31 Operating LLC on Monday reported the Sunday spill of 1,100 barrels of brine at an oil tank facility about 8 miles east of Mohall. Brine, or saltwater, is a byproduct of oil production.The spilled saltwater was contained on-site. A state inspector is monitoring cleanup. 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Police say a worker was struck and injured by a snow plow at Hector International Airport in Fargo.

Authorities say the victim was struck in the employee parking lot east of the terminal shortly after 3 a.m. Tuesday. The person was transported to the hospital with injuries, but is expected to survive.

KFGO reports the plow operator was a contractor hired by the airport.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s winter wheat crop is a bit bigger than it was a year ago.The federal Agriculture Department says North Dakota farmers last fall planted 110,000 acres of the crop, up from 85,000 acres the previous year.Winter wheat goes dormant over the winter, then begins growing again in the spring and is harvested in the summer. It’s not a major crop in North Dakota, and acreage fluctuations are common.Nationally, farmers planted 31.3 million acres of winter wheat, down 4 percent and the second-lowest U.S. acreage on record. 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s annual midwinter waterfowl survey indicated about 99,000 Canada geese in the state, slightly above average.

The Game and Fish Department says the survey also tallied 5,300 mallard ducks, down from the 10-year average.

Migratory game bird biologist Andy Dinges says the numbers likely would have been higher if not for a late-December blizzard that pushed birds south. He says snow impacts bird numbers more than extreme cold because it covers up farm fields where birds feed.

Dinges says the midwinter survey is used mainly to just monitor bird populations — not to provide an early glimpse of how numbers might shape up for the fall hunt. All states participate in the midwinter survey at the same time to avoid counting birds more than once.

 

In world and national news…

NEW YORK (AP) — The notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been convicted of drug-trafficking charges at a trial in New York. The verdict reached on the sixth day of jury deliberations could put the 61-year-old behind bars for the rest of his life in a high-security U.S. prison selected to thwart another one of the escapes that embarrassed his native country.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says that despite his unhappiness with a tentative agreement to prevent another partial government shutdown, he’s “thrilled” about the direction of border wall construction. He says the bottom line is that “we’re building a lot of wall.” Trump says he’s able to do that by “supplementing things and moving things around.” He says the money is coming from “far less important areas.”

 

PHOENIX (AP) — Retired astronaut Mark Kelly is presenting himself as an independent-minded centrist as he looks to finish John McCain’s term in the U.S. Senate. Kelly announced Tuesday that he’ll seek the Democratic nomination to take on Arizona Republican Martha McSally in the 2020 election. Kelly is married to former Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who survived a mass shooting in Tucson eight years ago.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Several of the nation’s largest universities receive more sexual assault complaints from off-campus than from school property, but their obligation to address off-campus cases could be dramatically reduced under a federal proposal. Data obtained by The Associated Press show that off-campus cases outnumber those from school grounds at colleges including the University of Texas, Texas A&M University and Arizona State University.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new study looks at what the future climate of cities could be under global warming by comparing them to hotter southern cities of today. So in 2080 if carbon dioxide emissions continue to soar, New York could feel like Arkansas, Chicago like Kansas City, San Francisco like Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. like Mississippi. The average city climate shifts 528 miles.