CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows around 60. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.

WEDNESDAY…Sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with chance of rain showers and slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 80. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts

to around 35 mph. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Cloudy. Chance of showers and thunderstorms in

the evening, then showers and chance of thunderstorms after

midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.  Chance of precipitation, 80 percent.

.THURSDAY…Showers and chance of thunderstorms. Highs around 70.

Southeast winds around 10 mph shifting to the northeast in the afternoon.

Chance of precipitation 80 percent.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain

showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 50s.

 

.FRIDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. A 30 percent chance of rain

showers. Lows in the mid 50s.

.SATURDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows around 50.

.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.

.LABOR DAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.

 

 

Jamestown  (City)  Wednesday  September 1, 2021; there will be a temporary water outage from 6th Ave NE to 9th Ave NE and also from Railroad Dr to 5th St NE. This will take place from approximately 9:00 AM to approximately 1:00 PM.

Questions regarding the water outage, please call the City Water Plant at 701-252-5131.

Motorists should use extreme caution in this area and use alternate routes, if possible.

 

 

 

Jamestown (CSi) The start of  construction of Eagle Flats in Downtown Jamestown is days away from the start of  Demolition.  Safety Fencing went up around the former Eagles building, Tuesday August 31.

Originally, the plan called for the event and starting construction in summer of 2020, but was delayed stemming from COVID-19 pandemic  related issues. The first step was to hired a company to clear the Asbestos, that has now finished.

Eagle Flats will have 33 apartment units at the site of the vacant Eagles building on First Avenue South, in Downtown Jamestown.

Commonwealth Companies had anticipated taking title to the Eagles property in October of 2020, and closing financing in April 2021, followed by construction, with completion now anticipated in 2022.

Eagle Flats will provide ground level parking, and have 33 accessible apartment units over the three floors, with a mix of one, two, and three-bedroom units in the secured building.

Residents will be within walking distance of downtown stores, along with Jamestown Middle School and employment in that area.

 

 

North Dakota health officials are confirming 520 new cases of the coronavirus, the highest reported daily total since mid-December. Officials say the increase in COVID-19 cases in recent weeks is due to the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus. Over the past two weeks, the rolling average number of daily new cases has increased by nearly 129%. Johns Hopkins University researchers say one in every 519 people in North Dakota tested positive in the past week. The cases posted Tuesday were the most since 575 tests came back positive on Dec. 10, 2020. The update came a day after a small group of North Dakota State University students marched around campus to protest a university rule that requires masks to be worn in classes and hallways.

The North Dakota Department of Health dashboard is updated daily by 11 am and includes cases reported through the previous day. The investigations are ongoing and information on the website is likely to change as cases are investigated. The information contained in this dashboard is the most up to date and will be different than previous news releases. This dashboard supersedes information from previous news releases or social media postings.

Check out our other dashboards: The COVID-19 Vaccine Dashboard, NDUS Dashboard.COVID- 19 stats:

 

COVID 19 Stats.

Tues. Aug. 31,  2021

10:30- a.m.

Barnes

New Positives: 5

Total Positives: 1466

Active: 14

Recovered: 1421

 

Stutsman

New Positives:  11

Total Positives:  3683

Active:  53

Recovered: 3548

 

 

Jamestown (CVHD) Central Valley Health District reminds residents that COVID testing is on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, at the Jamestown Civic Center, Exchequor Room, from 11-a.m. to noon.

Call CVHD at 701-252-8130 to register.

 

 

 

Valley City  (VCPS)  Valley City Public Schools announces the Continuity of Services Plan as of Friday, August 27, 2021, regarding COVID Protocol.

Frequently Asked Questions and Answers in this story at CSiNewsNow.com

 

 

 

 

 

Jamestown  (JPD)  The Jamestown Police Department  warns Jamestown residents of a new  high risk registered sex offender who is now residing in Jamestown.

32 year-old Robert Michael Williamson currently resides at 1009 12th Avenue Southeast room #24 at the Norway Inn, Jamestown ND.

Williamson is a white male, six feet 3 inches tall, weighing 290 pounds, with green eyes and red hair.

His vehicle is a white 2008 Chevy Blazer.

He has been assigned a high risk assessment by the North Dakota risk level committee of the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office.

Offense: Luring by Computer, meeting a 16 year old female, and later had sexual contact with her.

Conviction Date: February 28, 2018 in Burleigh County, ND District Court.

Disposition: 10 years, first serve 5 years 468 days credit, five years supervised probation, concurrent.

Offense: Gross Sexual Imposition involving intercourse with a 14 year old female.

Conviction Date: February 27, 2018 in Burleigh County, ND District Court.

Disposition: 10 years, first serve five years, 468 days credit, five years supervised probation.

He is currently on GPS monitoring.

Williamson is not currently wanted at this time 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 an offender will be turned over for prosecution.

Printed handouts of the demographics of Robert Michael Williamson are available at the Jamestown Police Department.

For more information on registered sex offenders, visit sexoffender.nd.gov.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The U.S. Department of State is offering up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of a Chinese national suspected of leading an international fentanyl trafficking operation. Authorities uncovered the operation after an overdose death in North Dakota. The reward was announced Tuesday. Jian Zhang is among more than 30 people accused of dealing large amounts of the powerful opioid. The investigation began when 18-year-old Bailey Henke was found dead inside a Grand Forks, North Dakota, apartment building in January 2015. Deaths from fentanyl supplied by the operation have also been reported in North Carolina, New Jersey and Oregon.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s attorney general was ticketed for going 57 in a 35 mph zone just days just days before he pleaded no contest to traffic charges for a car crash that killed a pedestrian last year. Jason Ravnsborg, the state’s top law enforcement officer, received a ticket late Sunday, Aug. 22 in Hughes County, where he lives. He was charged with a second-degree misdemeanor and fined $177.50. He hasn’t paid the fine or admitted guilt. Dakota News Now first reported the ticket. On Thursday, the Republican attorney general pleaded no contest to a pair of 2nd-degree misdemeanors for a crash last year that killed a man walking on a rural highway.

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden Tuesday, addressed the nation on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, defending the U.S. military airlift to extract some 120,000 Afghans, Americans and other allies to end a 20 year war an “extraordinary success,” More than 100 Americans and thousands of Afghans looking to leave were left behind, but Biden said diplomatic and other efforts would continue to get them out. Biden’s speech to the nation on Tuesday came 24 hours after the departure of the last American aircraft from Kabul. He said, in his words, “I was not going to extend this forever war. And I was not going to extend a forever exit.”

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban are reveling in their victory after the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, while reiterating their pledge to bring peace and security to the country after decades of war. An anxious population is waiting to see what the new order looks like. Having humbled the world’s most powerful military, the Taliban now face the challenge of governing a nation of 38 million people that relies heavily on international aid. It remains to be seen what kind of Islamic rule they can impose on a country that is far more educated and cosmopolitan than it was when the group last governed in the late 1990s.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say rain from Tropical Depression Ida is temporarily hampering cleanup efforts for a rural Tennessee community ravaged by recent deadly flooding. But the extra dousing has brought on no recurrence of any flooding so far Tuesday. The Humphreys County Emergency Management Agency said about 2.5 inches of rain fell overnight and showers were expected to continue throughout the day. Agency spokesperson Grey Collier said things were looking OK as of late Tuesday morning. The Tennessee National Guard was watching water levels in creek beds and under bridges, and police in flood-ravaged Waverly were on alert for any road flooding. The Aug. 21 flooding killed 20 people and damaged hundreds of structures.

(AP) Idaho Gov. Brad Little is calling in 220 medical workers available through federal programs and mobilizing 150 Idaho National Guard soldiers to deal with a surge in unvaccinated COVID-19 patients overwhelming the state’s hospitals. The Republican governor says the moves are a last-ditch effort to avoid activating for the first time statewide crisis standards of care that could force medical professionals to decide who lives and who dies. The last week registered about 1,000 new confirmed cases per day, mostly unvaccinated. Little says only four intensive care unit beds were available in the entire state on Tuesday. The workers include a 20-person U.S. Department of Defense medical response team deployed to northern Idaho, where vaccination rates are among the lowest in the state.

 

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A rewrite of election laws in Texas is on the cusp of heading to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk. The Texas House on Tuesday approved a sweeping measure that would put new limits on how and when Texans can vote and make it a crime for election judges to obstruct partisan poll watchers. Republicans call the changes safeguards and accuse Democrats who have spent the summer protesting and stalling the bill of exaggerating the impact. Democrats say the new rules would have a disproportionate impact on voters of color. The Texas Senate must now approve the bill one last time before it heads to Abbott, who has said he will sign it.

 

 

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president is visiting the United States in hopes of bolstering security ties with Washington and persuading the administration to ramp up sanctions against a new Russian gas pipeline bypassing his country. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called the U.S. failure to block the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Germany a grave political error. He is expected to again raise the issue during his talks Wednesday with U.S. President Joe Biden. Zelenskyy has described the new pipeline as a powerful geopolitical weapon for Russia, which annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and backed a separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine wants the U.S. to impose tougher sanctions on the Russian gas pipeline.

 

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has granted posthumous pardons to seven Black men executed in 1951 for the rape of a white woman. At the time, the case attracted pleas for mercy from around the world. In recent years, it has been held up as an example of racial disparity in the use of the death penalty. The ‘Martinsville Seven’ were all convicted of raping 32-year-old Ruby Stroud Floyd in a predominantly black neighborhood in Martinsville on Jan. 8, 1949. It was the largest mass execution for rape in U.S. history. In December, advocates and descendants of the men asked Northam to issue posthumous pardons. Their petition does not argue that the men were innocent, but says their trials were unfair and the punishment was extreme and unjust.