CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny with chance of showers and slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning, then mostly cloudy with showers likely and chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon.

Highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 60 percent in the Jamestown area, 70 percent in the Valley City area

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 60 percent chance of rain showers and thunderstorms in the Jamestown area, 80 percent in the Valley City area . Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.

.THURSDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain showers in the Jamestown area, 50 percent in the Valley City area. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.

.THURSDAY NIGHT… A 30 percent chance of thunderstorms in the Jamestown area, 50 percent chance  in the Valley City area. Lows in the mid 50s.  Lows in the upper 40s.

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

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.

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

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.

.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of rain showers in

the afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.

.MONDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.

 

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. Sept 28, 2021

10:16 – a.m.

Barnes

New Positives: 2

Total Positives:  1592

Active:  36

Recovered: 1522

New  Breakthrough Incidence Per 10K Fully Vaccinated Individuals: 91

 

Stutsman

New Positives:  2

Total Positives:  4007

Active:  53

Recovered: 3870

New Breakthrough Incidence Per 10K Fully Vaccinated Individuals: 133

 

 

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 1-pm

Call CVHD at 701-252-8130 to register.

 

 

 

 

 

Valley City (VCPS) Valley City Public School Superintendent Josh Johnson updates the community on the COVID-19 breakdown on cases, absentees, and the face mask survey.

The News Release States:

“Our school district continues to closely follow the presence of COVID-19 in our schools. After 23 days of school, I believe things have gone well, and our students/staff/parents are making responsible “individual” decisions to prevent the spread of any type of virus in our school district and community.

Here is a general breakdown of the past 4 weeks related to COVID-19:

Active Positive Cases (Avg. in Past Four Weeks)- Averaging 2 active positive cases per day (0.16% of students/staff)
Location- Majority of cases have been with 7-12 students
Contact Tracing- No confirmed cases of spread within VCPS (yes, close friends and family have spread cases)
Student Absences (due to illness) Past Three Weeks- Avg. of 35 k-12 students absent daily due to illness

At the beginning of September, we had surveyed our staff and parents regarding masks and contact tracing. This information was reported at the public board meeting and referenced below for your information.

Parents (436 responses)

68.58% No to District Masks; 31.42% Yes to District Masks
62.93% No to Elementary Masks; 37.07% Yes to Elementary Masks
57.21% No to Contact Tracing; 42.79% Yes to Contact Tracing

Staff (104 responses)

75.96% No to District Masks; 24.04% Yes to District Masks
64.08% No to Elementary Masks; 35.92% Yes to Elementary Masks
65.38% No to Contact Tracing; 34.62% Yes to Contact Tracing

Our school administration has been notifying parents via email when a positive case has been identified in a classroom (elementary), grade level (secondary), or activity team (secondary). We have been asked by a few parents and healthcare officials in our community to modify our notification letter and include additional information “encouraging” close contacts to wear a mask, providing the date of last exposure, and information about testing. We are reviewing these recommendations; however, please know decisions regarding masks and testing will remain with the individual students/staff/parents in our school district. So far, this approach appears to be working after 23 days of school. If this changes, we will be prepared to change as well.

Many predictions have been made by healthcare organizations that the peak of the COVID-19 wave in North Dakota will be at the beginning to mid-October. Thank you for helping us to maintain a healthy and safe school environment for our students and providing everyone with the ability to make individual/personal decisions with COVID-19. We will continue to closely follow COVID-19 in our school district and remain ready to change our plans if necessary.”

Josh Johnson

Superintendent

Valley City Public Schools

(701) 845-0483

 

 

Jamestown (CSi) A Great Plains Food Bank Distribution is set for  Wednesday September 29 from 1:30-p.m., to 3:30-p.m., at the Jamestown Civic Center.

Anyone in need of food assistance is Welcome.

Other distributions that day include:

New Rockford 10:45-a.m. to 11:45-a.m. at St. John’s Catholic Church. Line up of 3rd Avenue, facing east toward 2nd Street.

Sheyenne, 11:30-a.m. to 12 Noon, at the High School, at 320 Sunnyside Avenue.

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The James Valley Pheasants Forever’s 2021  11th Annual banquet is on Friday, October 1,  at the  Club 1883 banquet room. The cackle hour starts at 5 p.m. and a prime rib dinner will be served at 7 p.m. The meal will be served by the Barnes County North Trap Shooting Team. Tickets are $60, which includes a Pheasants Forever membership. The cost for current members is $25.

Tickets available at the door, from banquet committee members.

The banquet will have raffles, games and silent and live auctions for prizes.  The raffle donation is general $20 with some exceptions.

Youth are invited to attend the banquet, which includes a game just for them. For their $25 ticket, they will get a “Ringneck” membership, a meal and chances at prizes.

On Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, member Ken McDougal said, the James Valley Pheasants Forever is a nonprofit conservation organization that was founded in 2010 and is part of the national Pheasants Forever organization founded in 1982. Pheasants Forever is dedicated to the protection and enhancement of pheasants and other upland wildlife populations through habitat improvement, public awareness and education.

All funds raised at the banquet remain under the control of the local chapter to be used for youth projects, habitat improvement in the James Valley area and to support advocacy efforts on a state and national level. James Valley Pheasants Forever chapter supports three trap shooting teams, at Jamestown High School, the University of Jamestown and Barnes County North. The chapter provides more than 100 bags of food plot seed to local landowners to support wildlife and supports a precision agriculture project which allows a landowner to analyze his input/output costs for a field and determine if some acres should be left out of production due to low yields. Those acres can then be put into a different crop or perhaps into CRp or some other programs to provide them some income and wildlife some habitat.

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  St. John’s Academy’s H.O.P.E. (Help Offer Private Education) 31st Annual  Dinner & Auction is set for Saturday, October 2.

The Social starts at 4:30-p.m., with dinner served at 6:15-p.m.  The event is semi-formal and includes several live auction items, raffle, games, and entertainment. The  Silent Auction opens Thursday, September 30, virtually at orrauctioneers.com.

No physical tickets will be given this year. Visit stjohnsacademynd.org for more information

The event features preschool through 8th grade students as they ask for the community’s support of the annual fund.

 

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown Special Assessment Commission, Tuesday approved assessments of $1.76 million over a 20 year period, for Cavendish Farms’ three lift stations, near the plant.

The Bank of North Dakota  revised schedule is now for payments over a 20-years instead of over 30 years .  The project balance is $84,500 less after the reduction.

The commission also unanimously approved assessing more than $1.21 million over 20 years to the North Dakota State Hospital for a water line district project.

The revised  Bank of North Dakota schedule for payments is for a period of over 20-years instead of  over 30 years, and reduces the amount to be assessed by $81,600.

Commission member Scott Hare was not present.

 

Valley City  (Fire Department)  Construction for $600,000 addition to the Valley City Fire Hall is  progressing.

Valley City Fire Chief Scott Magnuson says additional  storage for equipment and fire fighting apparatus will be available in the new addition.

The completion dates is anticipated for January 7, 2022.

Photos courtesy of the Valley City Fire Department.

 

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — The man charged with shooting and killing a woman in Grand Forks earlier this month is facing additional felony charges. Charges of attempted robbery and theft have been filed against 26-year-old Ahmed Abdullahi who is accused of attempting to rob a man and stealing a car. He was previously charged with murder after 28-year-old Megan Gustafson was shot and killed during an argument. Police had responded to a 911 call about a suspicious person in a Grand Forks neighborhood on Sept. 12. Authorities say Abdullah was arguing with Gustafson inside a house before she was shot. Investigators believe they knew each other.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A panel of lawmakers putting the final touches on North Dakota’s new legislative map has delayed action n a proposal to create separate House districts on two of the state’s five American Indian reservations. Some members of the 14-member Republican-led committee said Tuesday they wanted more legal guidance before voting on the motion. The committee is scheduled to meet again Wednesday. Some North Dakota tribal leaders appealed to lawmakers last week to split legislative House districts that include reservations, a move they believe will increase the odds for electing American Indians to the Legislature.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The developer of an oil refinery near Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota has a new contract with a company that will buy and market all diesel and gasoline produced at the facility. Developer Meridian Energy Group says its 10-year contract with Musket Corp. covers 360 million gallons of diesel and 280 million gallons of gasoline produced annually. The fuels make up 90% of the volume of refined products at the plant. Meridian first proposed the refinery just 3 miles from the park in 2016, with the goal of having it operating by next year.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The Spirit Lake Tribe has been trying for nearly two decades to get North Dakota officials to replace signs at the reservation’s major ports of entry that were moved because of ongoing flooding of Devils Lake. With help from the state Department of Transportation, the markers are back in their rightful place. Tribal Chairman Doug Yankton says it is as much about principle as it is property. He says it highlights tribal sovereignty and shows the importance of tribal members learning about their history and culture. Yankton and the tribe finally got their new signs after state transportation director Bill Panos visited the reservation and received a four-hour tour that stretched to every end of the reservation.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The three people who died when a train derailed in rural Montana over the weekend included a Georgia couple who were on a cross-country trip to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary and 29-year-old Illinois man who was traveling to Oregon with his wife. The 74-year-old Don Varnadoe spent months watching videos about train trips on his office computer in preparation for a special cross-country vacation with 72-year-old Margie Varnadoe. They lived in Brunswick, Georgia. Authorities say the third victim was 29-year-old Zachariah Schneider of Illinois. The software developer was traveling to Oregon with his wife, who survived.

In world and national news…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A judge has sentenced a man who killed five people at a newspaper to more than five life sentences without the possibility of parole. Anne Arundel County Judge Michael Wachs ordered the sentence for Jarrod Ramos on Tuesday. In July, a jury found Ramos criminally responsible for killing Wendi Winters, John McNamara, Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen and Rebecca Smith with a shotgun at the Capital Gazette’s office in June 2018. Ramos had pleaded guilty but not criminally responsible to all 23 counts against him in 2019, using Maryland’s version of an insanity defense. The case was delayed several times before and during the coronavirus pandemic.

(AP)  Technology companies led a broad sell-off in stocks on Wall Street Tuesday, putting the S&P 500 on track for its biggest drop since May. The benchmark index fell 1.9% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 2.6%. The center of Wall Street’s action was again in the bond market, where a swift rise in Treasury yields is forcing investors to reassess whether prices have run too high for stocks, particularly the most popular ones. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note jumped to 1.53%, its highest level since late June. That’s up from 1.32% a week ago. Energy stocks bucked the downward trend and rose.

 

 

 

NEW YORK (AP) — Prince Andrew has acknowledged through his lawyer that he’s been served with a lawsuit by a U.S. woman who says he sexually assaulted her. The acknowledgement was confirmed in a joint agreement signed by a lawyer for Andrew and approved by a Manhattan federal judge. It was entered in the public record Tuesday. The court papers said Andrew had been challenging acceptance of the lawsuit until lawyers spoke by phone on Sept. 21. An agreement was signed three days later. In the lawsuit, Virginia Giuffre claims Andrew abused her on multiple occasions in 2001 when she was under 18. Andrew’s lawyer has called the allegations “baseless.”