CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of snow after midnight. Lows near zero. West winds around 5 mph shifting to the northwest up to 5 mph after midnight.

.FRIDAY…Cloudy. Snow likely in the morning, then slight chance of snow in the afternoon. Snow accumulation around 1 inch. Highs around 15. North winds around 5 mph increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of snow 60 percent in the Jamestown area, 70 percent in the Valley City area.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows around 10 below. Northwest

winds 10 to 15 mph.

.SATURDAY…Partly sunny. Colder. Highs near zero. Northwest

winds 10 to 15 mph.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows around 15 below.

.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs around 5 below.

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

.MONDAY…Partly sunny. Patchy blowing and drifting snow through

the day. Highs 5 to 10 above.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Patchy blowing and drifting snow

in the evening. Lows near zero.

.TUESDAY…Partly sunny. Highs 10 to 15.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows near zero.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs around 15.

 

Snow expected to develop Thursday night across southern North Dakota. Snow amounts appear to be in the one to two inch range, with some

isolated 3 inch amounts. Most of the accumulation will be along

and south of Interstate 94 with the higher amounts along the

South Dakota border.

 

The arctic front will move through after the snow ends Friday

afternoon and Friday night

 

Saturday, Sunday and Monday mornings all look very cold, with

lows near 30 below Sunday morning northwest and 15 to 25 below

elsewhere. Coldest wind chills could be as low as 50 below Sunday

morning north and 40 below or colder south.

Some blowing snow Sunday and Monday with a moderate northwest wind of 20 to 30 mph.

 

 

Jamestown city crews will begin the snow removal program in the Downtown district starting Friday, March 1, 2019 at 11:00 p.m.

 City Ordinance Section 25-10 requires that a property owner keep the sidewalk adjoining the property clear of snow and ice. Do not deposit snow or ice on the city street after the city plow has cleared the street. These violations are class B misdemeanors under the general penalty and will result in a fine.

PLEASE NOTE:

The above schedule is contingent upon changing weather conditions and snow accumulation totals

 

Valley City  (VCSU) The music department at Valley City State University has rescheduled its Mid-Winter Instrumental Concert at 7:30 p.m., to Thursday, March 7, in Vangstad Auditorium on the VCSU campus.

The concert that had been scheduled for March 1, has postponed due to unforeseen circumstances.

The concert will include the Jazz Ensemble, directed by Dr. Kenneth Jimenez, and the Concert Band, directed by Jerrold Heide. The concert is free, and the public is invited to attend.

 

(REDWOOD FALLS, Minn.  (Farmers Union) – Farmers Union Enterprises recently released STEM:IT AG, a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) curriculum focused on agriculture, food and natural resources for kindergarten through 12th grade students.

The curriculum is a joint effort between five Farmers Union state organizations

(Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin), which comprise

Farmers Union Enterprises, based in Redwood Falls, Minn. Farmers Union Enterprises

partnered with the design group, STEM Fuse to produce and distribute the curriculum.

Doug Sombke, president of Farmers Union Enterprises and South Dakota Farmers Union. Says “Talk about making science relevant – all students eat.  We are excited to

share this curriculum which integrates STEM-based information into interactive units

about agriculture and where food comes from with educators and students throughout

the nation.”

 

Carter Tatge, founder and CEO of STEM Fuse, says,  “Collaborating with the Farmers Union Enterprises team, we designed the curriculum to easily integrate ag-based STEM education in any unit teachers are focusing on.  You don’t need a STEM

background or an agriculture background to provide STEM:IT AG to students. In fact,

the curriculum requires little guidance from educators.”

 

Miranda Letherman, North Dakota Farmers Union youth education specialist, said the

curriculum also exposes students to potential careers, everything from computer

coding and three-dimensional (3D) printing to developing agricultural commodities.

In one STEM:IT AG challenge, students create a tool that could be used to harvest a

crop, while another challenge asks them to design a solar oven from a shoebox,

tinfoil and black paper to heat up food using the sun’s energy.

 

To learn more, contact Letherman at 952-0166 or mletherman@ndfu.org. To order

STEM:IT AG, visit www.stemfuse.com or call STEM Fuse’s National Sales Director

Stephanie Spaan at 605-521-9213.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) —  North Dakota’s Republican-led Legislature is getting some criticism for trying to make it more difficult for citizen-led initiatives to get on the ballot.

Beulah power plant worker Kevin Herrmann told a Senate committee on Thursday that the move “will hamper or stop” citizen efforts to amend the state constitution.

Senators voted this month to allow the Legislature to vote on an initiated measure following voters’ approval. The initiative would go back to voters for final approval if lawmakers don’t endorse it.

Lawmakers also have a resolution to raise to 60 percent the margin necessary to approve a constitutional amendment, rather than a simple majority. Another would double the number of signatures required to put a measure before voters.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Legislature has removed mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenses.The Senate endorsed the House bill 44-1 on Thursday. It now goes to Gov. Doug Burgum for his signature.The bill allows judges to depart from the mandatory sentence guidelines and decide their own punishment.Longtime North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem has promoted the idea of giving judges an escape hatch from mandatory minimum sentences. 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Native American tribe leading the fight against the Dakota Access oil pipeline said Thursday that an Army Corps of Engineers document shows the agency concluded the pipeline won’t unfairly affect tribes before it consulted them.

Standing Rock Sioux officials say the document, which they shared with The Associated Press, bolsters the tribe’s claim that the Corps disregarded a federal judge’s order to seriously review the pipeline’s potential impact on the Standing Rock Sioux and three other Dakotas-based tribes and to not treat the study as a “bureaucratic formality.”

“This was a rigged process intended to justify a dangerous and illegal pipeline,” Standing Rock Chairman Mike Faith said in a statement to the AP.

The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Corps has said previously that the four tribes suing to shut down the pipeline that began delivering North Dakota oil to a shipping point in Illinois two years ago have been difficult to work with. And the agency did meet with the tribes before it presented its study findings to U.S. District Judge James Boasberg.

 

In sports…

Bismarck   Jamestown’s Blue Jays Boys basketball defeated Dickinson in the WDA West Region Tournament, Thursday afternoon, by a score of 67-44.

Next up for the Jays, they move to the semi finals on Friday evening at 5:30-p.m., taking on  Minot, at the Bismarck Event Center.

 

In world and national news…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief challenger in upcoming elections is calling on the Israeli prime minister to resign to fight corruption allegations. Appearing on nationwide TV, Benny Gantz said Thursday that being prime minister cannot be a “part-time job” and said Netanyahu should conduct his legal battle as a private citizen. He also called on Netanyahu to stop attacking state institutions, such as police and prosecutors, who have investigated him.
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — President Donald Trump has stressed United States’ military power as he stopped at a military base in Alaska on his way back to Washington after an unsuccessful summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. Trump did not directly respond to North Korea’s assertion that he had mischaracterized the reason the summit collapsed. Instead, Trump said the U.S. was investing in missile defense technology, and he issued a broad warning to U.S. enemies.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida Republican congressman Matt Gaetz says he’s apologized to Michael Cohen for taunting him about his private life. Gaetz had tweeted Wednesday that new details would emerge about Cohen’s private life. Gaetz apologized on Thursday. Cohen is back on Capitol Hill, this time to testify behind closed doors to the House intelligence committee.
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Turkish officials say Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan has called President Recep Tayyip Erdogan amid his country’s standoff with India. A statement from Erdogan’s office said the two discussed the tensions between Pakistan and India and other developments in the region during Thursday’s telephone conversation
UNDATED (AP) — The Trump administration is proposing a federal tax credit for donations made to groups offering scholarships for private schools, apprenticeships or other educational programs. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos unveiled the plan Thursday, while legislation is being proposed by Republicans in the House and Senate. The proposal, called the Education Freedom Scholarships and Opportunity Act, is DeVos’ latest attempt to promote school choice.