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CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

FRIDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.

.SATURDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to

20 mph.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of

showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.

.INDEPENDENCE DAY…Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers

and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. A 20 percent chance of showers and

thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s.

.MONDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers

and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s.

.TUESDAY…Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and

thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of

showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and

thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s.

 

NDDoH

COVID-19 Stats 10:45 a.m.

Thurs. Jul 1, 2021

Barnes

New Positives  0

Total Positives 1423

Active: 0

Recovered: 1393

 

Stutsman

New Positives 1

Total Positives 3436

Active 1

Recovered 3464

 

 

Valley City  (CCHD)  City/County Health reports, that testing continues to be important. If you have any symptoms, it is important to be tested. If you have symptoms and need to be tested at other times contact your clinic.

Administrator Theresa Will says testing will move inside City County Health, starting Friday July 2  at the CCHD location.  415 2nd Ave NE, from 12:30-p.m., to 1:30-p.m, with  t he Quick test will be administered by staff members inside their offices in Valley City.

Also starting soon testing will be available on Mondays during the same time, with the exemption of Monday July 5.

Call 845-8518 to make an appointment.

Pre-register for all clinics.

 

 

Valley City  (VCPD)  The Valley City Police Department reports, that police along with the Barnes County Sheriff’s Office and the Stutsman County Narcotics Task Force took down a marijuana  growing operation in Valley City.

The News Release says, on June 30, 2021 Valley City Police received information of a possible marijuana  growing operation in the 600 block of 11th Avenue Southwest in Valley City.  As officers investigated they discovered a vent leaving the apartment which smelled of raw marijuana.  A search warrant was obtained for the residence and subsequently  several items associated with growing and manufacturing operations, as well as several live marijuana plants seized.

The police report says 32 year old Douglas Krall, of Valley City, has been arrested for Possession with intent to Manufacture/Deliver a Controlled Substance, a Class B-Felony.  The report says, more charges are expected to be brought forth, at a later time.

VCPD, and BCSD collaborate  with SCNTF for these types of investigations.  The SCNTF covers a five county region including, Barnes, Stutsman, LaMoure, Eddy, and Foster Counties and the Cities of Jamestown, Valley City and Carrington.

 

 

Valley City  (CSi)  – Starting July 2nd, 2021, the temporary stop signs at the intersections of 2nd Street SW and 6th Avenue SW, 3rd Street SW and 6th Avenue SW, and 3rd Street SW and 7th Avenue SW will be removed. The intersections then return to uncontrolled.

Maps for all road closures and updated sign layouts will be posted on the City of Valley City’s webpage http://www.valleycity.us/engineers/ when they are taking affect. If you have any questions regarding the project, please contact KLJ at (701)-845-4980.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A group of ultraconservative North Dakota lawmakers and Republican Party leaders have proposed a ballot measure to place term limits on the governor and members of the Legislature. If Secretary of State Al Jaeger approves the petition, which he received Thursday, petitioners would have one year to gather 31,164 signatures to put the measure to voters next year. The initiative would add a new article to the state constitution, effective Jan. 1, 2023, imposing term limits of eight cumulative years each in the House and Senate. The governor could not be elected more than twice. More than 60 current lawmakers have served eight or more years. Two Republicans, Sen. Ray Holmberg, of Grand Forks, and Rep. Bob Martinson, of Bismarck, have each served more than 40 years.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — An environmental group wary about the sale of North Dakota’s largest coal-fired power plant by a nonprofit Minnesota electric cooperative wants officials in that state to review the deal. The Sierra Club says ratepayers are being left in the dark. Bismarck-based Rainbow Energy Center LLC said it reached an agreement Wednesday to acquire the Coal Creek Station in west-central North Dakota from Maple Grove, Minnesota-based Great River Energy. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Great River supplies electricity to 28 rural Minnesota cooperatives. It’s unclear if the cooperatives have signed off on the deal.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A new monthly survey of business leaders suggests the economy continues growing at a strong pace in nine Midwest and Plains states. The overall index for the region crept up to 73.5 in June from May’s already strong 72.3 reading. Any score above 50 suggests growth. Creighton University economist Ernie Goss said the region is expected to keep growing and return to pre-pandemic levels early next year. Business leaders said supply delays are causing problems in manufacturing and high inflation remains a concern. The monthly survey covers Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota.

 

 

In sports…

American Legion Baseball

Thursday …

Sheyenne New Rockford  12  Carrington Post 25  2 (6 innings Mercy Rule)

Jamestown Post 14       14   Watford City Post 29   1   (5 innings)

Jamestown Post 14        11      Watford City Post 29    1   (5 innings)

 

 

 

In world and national news…

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Rescue efforts at the site of a partially collapsed Florida condominium building have been halted out of concern about the stability of the remaining structure. Officials say crews noticed widening cracks and up to a foot of movement in a large column early Thursday. The stoppage that began shortly after 2 a.m. threatened to keep search teams off the rubble pile for an unknown period and dim hopes for finding anyone alive in the debris a week after the tower came down. The rescue operations were called off on the same day that President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visited the devastated community.

 

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — President Joe Biden is offering comfort to the grieving and federal support for the efforts to search for the missing and rebuild after last week’s collapse of a high-rise condo building along the Florida coastline. Biden met with first responders Thursday who are hunting for survivors among the rubble in Surfside. But underscoring the dangers still present in the search, work was halted before Biden arrived due to concerns about the stability of the section still standing. Biden and his wife Jill arrived in Florida a week after the collapse of the 12-story Champlain Towers South beachfront condominium killed at least 18 people and left 145 missing.

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s company and its longtime finance chief were charged Thursday in what a prosecutor called a “sweeping and audacious” tax fraud scheme. The indictment says Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg allegedly receive more than $1.7 million in off-the-books compensation, including apartment rent, car payments and school tuition. It is the first criminal case New York authorities’ probe has yielded. Both Weisselberg and lawyers for the Trump Organization pleaded not guilty. Trump himself was not charged at this stage of the investigation, jointly pursued by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has upheld voting restrictions in Arizona in a decision that could make it harder to challenge other state limits put in place by Republican lawmakers following last year’s elections. The court reversed a lower court ruling in deciding that Arizona’s limits on who can return early ballots for another person and the state’s refusal to count ballots cast in the wrong precinct are not racially discriminatory. The federal appeals court in San Francisco had held that the measures disproportionately affected Black, Hispanic and Native American voters in violation of the landmark Voting Rights Act.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-led House has approved a sizable $715 billion transportation bill. The bill passed Thursday includes spending for roads, rail, public transit and water and could serve as a marker in the negotiations over a bipartisan infrastructure bill. President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of senators have already agreed to a blueprint for a roughly $1 trillion infrastructure package, but it has not yet been turned into legislation. House Democrats will be pushing to include many of their provisions when Congress negotiates the broader bipartisan product this summer.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The new committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has a surprise member: Republican Liz Cheney. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday named Cheney and seven Democrats to a new select committee on the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. The panel will investigate what went wrong when hundreds of supporters of then-President Donald Trump broke into the Capitol, hunted for lawmakers and interrupted the congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory. Cheney says she’s “honored” to serve on the committee. The Wyoming Republican was ousted from House Republican leadership earlier this year for her harsh criticism of Trump.