CSi Weather…

…WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH LATE SUNDAY NIGHT…

Stutsman, Logan, La Moure, McIntosh, Dickey, Portions of central, north central, northwest and west central Minnesota and northeast and southeast North Dakota. counties.

From late Friday night through late Sunday night.

Snow developing late Friday night. Strong winds with possible blowing snow developing Saturday night and continuing into Monday morning.

Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations of 8 to 16
inches possible. Areas of blowing snow possible, as winds could
gust as high as 45 mph. Ice accumulations of up to one tenth of an inch possible.

Travel could be very difficult to impossible.
Widespread blowing snow could significantly reduce visibility..

Monitor the latest forecasts for updates on this situation.

 

Forecast….

.TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows around 10. West winds 5 to 10 mph.

.FRIDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 20s. Southwest winds 5 to

10 mph.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy

with a 20 percent chance of snow after midnight. Lows 10 to 15.

Southwest winds around 5 mph.

.SATURDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow in the Jamestown area, 50 percent in the Valley City area. Highs in the lower 20s. North winds 5 to 15 mph.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow. Lows

10 to 15.

.SUNDAY…Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Windy. Highs

15 to 20.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow.

Windy. Lows 5 to 10 above.

.MONDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow. Highs

15 to 20.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Decreasing clouds. Lows 5 to 10 above.

.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs 15 to 20.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows around 10.

.NEW YEARS DAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 20s.

 

..A SIGNIFICANT WINTER STORM WILL NEGATIVELY IMPACT TRAVEL
SOMEWHERE IN THE NORTHERN PLAINS THIS WEEKEND…

It is too early to know who gets what from this storm, but at

this point it looks like the higher snow amounts and higher wind

speeds should be across the eastern part of North Dakota, on into

South Dakota and Minnesota. The expectation, right now, is that

the area east of a line from Bismarck to the Turtle Mountains

would be impacted the most, but that expectation could change as

we get closer to the onset of the storm. The most likely timing

for the storm is Saturday through Sunday. The most likely impacts

are significant snow and wind.

If you have weekend travel plans anywhere in the Northern Plains

you will want to keep up to date on the weather forecast, and do

not be surprised if that forecast changes.

Make sure to check the forecast often as additional information will be provided as confidence increases.

 

Update…

Jamestown  (CSi)  Jamestown City Street Crews moved into the residential areas, to clear snow, starting at 11-a.m., Thursday.

City crews will continued to work Thursday night at 11-p.m.,with Downtown Jamestown and Business Areas being cleared.

Downtown businesses and private and public schools were asked to have their sidewalks cleared by 9-p.m. Thursday.

 

Valley City  (CSi) Meeting in Special Session, Thursday morning, at City Hall, the Valley City Commission, accepted the resignation of City Administrator, David Schelkoph.

He has said, he tendered his resignation, and is leaving the position to pursue other interests, with his last day as City Administrator, January 17, 2020.

He accepted the position in 2012.

City Human Resources Director Carl Martineck says options will be discussed about the position and the future employee flow chart.

Mayor Dave Carlsrud said a lot of duties have been added to the position.

Jamestown  (uj.edu)  University of Jamestown hosted 40 prospective students during its Fall Wilson Scholarship Day on Nov. 18, 2019. After participating in on-campus interviews and writing an essay, two high school students, Ema Lee (Casselton, ND) and Kristi Carpenter (Moffit, ND), were awarded full-tuition scholarships.

UJ’s Vice President of Enrollment Management, Greg Ulland says, “Both of this year’s winners truly exemplify what it means to be a Jimmie. Not only are they strong academically, their commitment to community and those around them was clear in their interviews and essays. Any student that attends the Wilson Competition should consider themselves part of an elite group of young adults, and ones we would be honored to have join our campus community.”

Established in memory of the late Dr. John L. Wilson and his wife, Palma, the Wilson Competitive Scholarship Program provides four full-tuition scholarships for four years.

Each fall and winter, University of Jamestown invites admitted students with a 3.5 GPA and 24 ACT to compete in their prestigious Wilson Scholarship Day Event. Qualifying students interview with members of the faculty and compose a brief essay. The top two students from each competition receive a Wilson Full-Tuition Scholarship. All other participants are granted a Distinguished Scholarship worth $1,000 per year.

The next Wilson Scholarship Day will be held on Jan. 20, 2020. Students interested in registering for the event should contact the Office of Admissions at 1-800-336-2554 or admission@uj.edu.

Ulland, adds, “Of course, there are great financial incentives for students to attend the Wilson Competition.  An even bigger benefit of attendance, however, is the chance for these like-minded students to make connections with one another and with the UJ community long before they actually enroll.”

For more information on the Wilson Scholarship and the legacy of Dr. John L. Wilson at UJ, please visit uj.edu/WilsonScholarship.

 

(AP)  A Minot man is accused of punching a nurse while he was hospitalized after a night of drinking. The Minot Daily News reports that 36-year-old Alberto Moreno, is charged with Class C felony simple assault for last weekend’s incident. A police affidavit shows that Moreno was kicked out of a bar and was later found unconscious and taken to a local hospital. A nurse says she had been talking on a cellphone with Moreno’s brother and when she went to return the phone Moreno sat up and punched her in the face.

(AP)  The Grand Forks Police Department says it has received numerous reports of mail being stolen from residential mailboxes in the city. Two suspect vehicle descriptions have been provided to police. One is a dark colored sport utility vehicle and the other is a white four-door sedan. Police say the thefts have occurred late at night and early in the morning in the southeastern quadrant of the city. Police are recommending that residents not leave outgoing mail for pickup in their mailboxes overnight and that they ask the Post Office to hold their mail when they are out of town

(AP) The North Dakota Trade Office has a new executive director. The agency’s board of directors announced Thursday that Drew Combs, who joined the trade office in August as a business development executive, is taking over the post. The trade office is a membership-based, private-public partnership that promotes North Dakota companies in order to help them increase exports and grow their international business. Sanford says the board likes the fact that Combs has a background in agriculture and energy, which the lieutenant governor calls “pillars of North Dakota’s economy.”

Bismarck (Gov. Burgum’s Office) Gov. Doug Burgum released the following statement Dec 26, 2019 after longtime public servant Eliot Glassheim passed away Wednesday, Dec. 25. Glassheim served in the North Dakota House of Representatives in 1975 and again from 1993 to 2016 and was a member of the Grand Forks City Council from 1982 to 2012.

“Eliot Glassheim was a true statesman whose wisdom, integrity and quick wit made him an effective consensus-builder and beloved public servant for more than two decades in the House and 30 years on the Grand Forks City Council,” Burgum said. “Kathryn and I extend our deepest condolences to his family and friends as we honor his incredible legacy of public service.”

 

Bismarck  (NDGF)  The  State Game and Fish Department reports, that North Dakota’s river otter trapping season is closed immediately. The statewide season’s predetermined harvest limit of 20 has been reached.

Only North Dakota residents were eligible to participate, with a season limit of one otter per trapper.

 

In world and national news..

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — Police in New Mexico are investigating the shooting of four people who were found dead on Christmas Day in a home in an Albuquerque suburb. Police in Rio Rancho have not identified the dead. They didn’t say whether they have a suspect or suspects, but issued a statement that they did not believe there was an ongoing threat to the public. A woman told KRQE-TV she’s related to the people who lived in the home, and her mother and brother found the bodies. They went to the home because they were concerned that they had not heard from the family.

 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man is being held without bond in the stabbing deaths of two men outside a Nashville bar on Saturday. According to police, Michael Mosley is charged with criminal homicide in the deaths of 22-year-old Clayton Beathard and 21-year-old Paul Trapeni III. Beathard was the brother of NFL quarterback C.J. Beathard of the San Francisco 49ers. The 23-year-old Mosley was arrested on Christmas Day following a days-long manhunt. Police say the altercation started when Mosley made “unwanted advancements” toward a female friend of the victims. Injured in the attack was a 21-year-old University of Tennessee student whom police have not named.

 

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say they’ve located a 14-year-old boy suspected of fatally stabbing a Barnard College freshman in a park near the school’s Manhattan campus. Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison tweeted Thursday that the boy had been found, but gave no other details. He is one of three youths police believe were involved in the stabbing of 18-year-old Tessa Majors on Dec. 11 at Morningside Park. Police tracked him down after taking the unusual step last Friday of releasing photographs of him but not his name or any other identifying information. Of the two other suspects, only one has been charged.

 

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump is speaking out against what he describes as the “carnage” afflicting civilians in a rebel stronghold in Syria. He wrote in a tweet Thursday that “Russia, Syria and Iran are killing, or on their way to killing” thousands of civilians in Idlib province. That’s the last rebel-held bastion in Syria. The province has been subjected to an intense air and ground bombardment by government forces that has displaced many civilians toward the Turkish border. About a month ago, Syrian government forces launched a renewed effort to take the province.

 

NEW YORK (AP) — More people did their shopping online this year in one of the shortest holiday shopping seasons in years and that pushed overall sales higher. Early data from Mastercard SpendingPulse shows that retail sales in the US rose 3.4% between Nov. 1 and Dec. 24 compared with last year. However, that’s slower growth than in the previous year, when sales grew 5.1%. Online sales rose at a faster pace, up 18.8% from last year.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled American Airlines workers at Newark’s airport who claim they’ve been shorted on overtime pay can’t sue as a class. The ruling published Tuesday reverses a New Jersey judge’s decision that would have allowed the lawsuit to go forward and include all non-exempt hourly workers employed at the airport since April 2014. Several employees say American’s timekeeping system automatically paid employees based on their schedules rather than on the hours they actually worked. American has denied the allegations. An attorney representing the employees said in an email Thursday that his clients were considering their options.