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Jamestown (CSi) The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Thursday afternoon increased the release from Jamestown Reservoir from 75 cfs, to 125 cfs.
The Corps’ Pipestem Dam Manager, Bob Martin says, the increase may raise the James River leve through Jamestown about six inches.
He said the 75 cfs release that was started on Monday this week did not help draw down the reservoir which received inflow run off from last weekends heavy rain.
Prior to Monday there was no release made from Jamestown Dam since last November.
The goal is to have the flood storage area at Jamestown Reservoir evacuated by the first week of June 2015.
Pipestem Dam is still not releasing flows.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council met in Special Session Thursday at City Hall. All members were present.
The purpose of the meeting was to advertise for bids for construction of the sanitary landfill cell.
Darrell Hournbuckle from Interstate Engineering said this is the remaining piece of the present landfill.
The Council voted unanimously to approve advertising.
Following the meeting, the City Council’s Police Committee and Public Works and Fire Committee and Finance and Legal Committees met at City Hall.
With the Police Committee:
Discussion concerned the exempt employee status of the Major, Captain and Lieutenants in the Police Department.
Chief Edinger said those officers are a part of other administrative positions, now, and should not be exempt, and then would qualify for overtime hours. Mayor Andersen suggested the Chief submit job descriptions to the city.
Council Member Buchanan moved to re-classify those officers, as non-exempt employees.
City Administrator, Jeff Fuchs said, the city will have to amend the Civil Service Ordinance, which requires a First and Second Reading of the Ordinance.
The committee recommends approval including submitting the job description.
Public Works
Tourism Director Searle Swelund made a comment concerning the hole in the street near Frontier Village, abutting the wall near the amphitheater, and where the progress was in rectifying the problem.
The city previously looked at hired a company for soil testing, and the city will obtain quotes.
No official recommendation was made by the committee, however City Engineer Reed Schwartzkoph said he will go forward to obtain quotes.
The committee discussed a RRV&W train track washout at a bend near the James River.
The committee recommends the city and railroad and landowner work together to reach a solution to repairs. The committee recommends approval of the entities working together to reach a solution to the repairs.
Finance & Legal Committee
The committee recommends approving a Resolution relating to a project under the Municipal Industrial Development Act giving preliminary approval, subject to a public hearing, for the City of Jamestown to issue University Facilities Revenue Bonds not to exceed $2,000,000.00 on behalf of the University of Jamestown, for the purpose of financing the acquisition of a building located at 4190 26th Avenue South, in Fargo, for the University’s physical therapy program.
The committee recommends approving the application from David and Cheryl Remillong for a Class C on/off sale alcoholic beverage license for DCR Investments, dba The Office Bar & Lounge.
The meetings were shown live on CSi 67 followed by replays.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Tourism Grant and Executive Board meeting on Thursday at CSi Technology Center at Historic Franklin School, included discussion about the hole in the street near the retaining wall adjacent to the amphitheater near the entrance to Frontier Village.
Tourism Director, Searle Swedlund said he’s had discussion on the repair of the area with City Engineer, Reed Schwartzkoph, on the topic, and Swedlund noted he would bring the topic to the City Council’s Public Works Committee.
Swedlund said the problem was first discussed with the city two years ago, and wonders why the issued has not been actively addressed since.
He pointed out that Torurism has no dollars to fund the project, adding that the Frontier Village Board is not concerned about the condition of the wall, or street, “because nothing bad has happened yet.”
Frontier Village leases their parcel of land from the City of Jamestown.
In other business the board approved the full grant requests from the North Dakota Patriot Guard for a Jamestown gathering, and from the Jamestown Fine Arts Association for Saturdays staffing year ‘round.
George Quigley representing the Patriot Guard said this is the second year that Jamestown has hosted the regional event, last year drawing about 250 visitors to Jamestown, with around 50 hotel rooms rented, and this year the group hopes around 500 will be on hand.
In addtion to the honor ride, on June 19, 2015 a statue dedicated to fallen heros will be dedicated, to be located outside the Jamestown Civic Center’s main entrance.
The event will be held June 19th and 20th, with the memorial program and honor ride, on the 20th. The steak fry will be on June 19th, with all activities at the Jamestown Civic Center. The group’s request for $2,500 to be used toward regional advertising was granted by the board.
Also approved was the grant request from Jamestown Fine Arts Association in the amount of $1,580, to be used for staffing the Jamestown Arts Center, year ‘round on Saturdays from 10-a.m., to 2-p.m.
Arts Center Director, Cyndi Wish said about 20-30 people come to the Arts Center when it’s open on Saturdays.
Wimbledon(CSi) The Midland Continental Railroad Transportation Museum featuring Peggy Lee”, located in Wimbledon, will begin its 2015 Summer Season Saturday May 23 from 1-4pm., with other times available by appointment…through Labor Day.
On Sunday the 24th, a pot luck will be held at St. John’s United Methodist Church in Wimbledon at 5:30-p.m., followed at the church at 7-p.m., with a Dave Foster power point presentation about his late grandmother, Peggy Lee.
On Monday and Tuesday Dave and his wife Carol will be at the museum 1-4 p.m., and on Tuesday, Peggy Lee’s birthday they will be at the museum 1-4 with refreshment served during that time.
More information on line at CsiNewsNow.com with an encore replay of the 2013 museum dedication showing on CSi 10 THE REPLAY CHANNEL.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Fargo police have arrested two more people in the beating of a man outside of a bar last weekend, bringing the number of suspects to four.
Three men from Fargo and a man from Denver are accused in the alleged assault early Sunday that put 35-year-old Joey Gaarsland in the hospital in critical condition with a brain injury. The four suspects all are in their 30s.
Authorities say Gaarsland’s wife and a bystander also were assaulted in the altercation that started inside Rick’s Bar and continued later in the parking lot.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison on a child pornography charge.
A jury last year found 39-year-old Garron Gonzalez, of Bismarck, guilty of attempted sexual exploitation of minors. Authorities say Gonzalez tried to persuade a 15-year-old person to send him sexually explicit visual depictions using a cellphone.
Investigators say Gonzales met the victim while playing an online video game.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland sentenced Gonzalez to the maximum term allowed under federal sentencing guidelines.
A federal public defender could not be reached for comment.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – A new survey suggests the economy will remain weak in rural parts of 10 Western and Plains states because the strong U.S. dollar is hurting exports and the bird flu is hitting poultry farms hard.
The overall Rural Mainstreet index improved to 49 in May from April’s 46, but the index remained in negative territory below 50.
Creighton University economist Ernie Goss says agriculture and energy exports are suffering.
The survey indexes range from 0 to 100. Any score below 50 suggests decline in that factor in the months ahead.
Sales of farmland and farm equipment are slowing, and the bankers surveyed are less confident about the next few months.
Bankers from Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Wyoming and the Dakotas were surveyed.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The state Department of Public Instruction is seeking public comment plan meant to ensure that all North Dakota students are taught by excellent educators.
The U.S. Department of Education has required states to submit their plans by June 1. North Dakota’s draft plan has been posted on DPI’s website for public review and comment.
One of the goals is to make sure that poor and minority children are taught by experienced and qualified teachers.
North Dakota’s draft plan suggests using signing bonuses, student loan forgiveness, housing programs, improved professional development, and incentives for training teachers’ aides to become licensed teachers as ways to increase the supply of highly qualified teachers in high-poverty schools. Retired teachers also could be recruited and offered training to return to the classroom.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The manager of a ring levee project south of Fargo says a judge’s decision to halt construction could cost taxpayers millions of dollars.
U.S. District Judge John Tunheim last week put the project on hold when he ruled that the Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Authority should wait for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to complete an environmental study on the planned $2 billion Red River diversion.
The levee would protect structures where floodwaters would be staged when the diversion is in operation.
Project manager Bruce Spiller says in court documents that the loss of the 2015 construction season would result in nearly $1.2 million in additional costs. He says the delay would cost at least another $1 million if it stretches into 2016.
The diversion authority is appealing Tunheim’s order.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Ward County State’s Attorney Rozanna Larson is seeking about $525,000 in state aid to fund more staff.
Larson says staff are suspending vacations and putting in long hours to handle a growing number of cases in the county on the edge of the bustling oil patch.
She says two attorneys are resigning, citing stress – including one who has six weeks of unused vacation. Her office already has had to fill six vacancies due to turnover since 2013, along with four support staff positions.
Larson wants to reduce attorneys’ workloads and create a better working environment.
The the County Commission approved her request to the state for oil impact money – grants given to counties to help them deal with the effects of energy development.
In sports…
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Former University of North Dakota standout hockey player and assistant coach Cary Eades is returning to the Red River Valley as head coach of the Fargo Force. Eades also will serve as general manager of the United States Hockey League team. Eades has been coach and general manager of the USHL’s Sioux Falls Stampede.
The Sioux Falls Stampede has named former longtime Colorado College head coach Scott Owens as coach and general manager of the United States Hockey League franchise.
AA…
St. Paul 8, Fargo-Moorhead 7
MLB…
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Final Baltimore 5 Seattle 4
Final Detroit 6 Houston 5, 11 Innings
Final Toronto 8 L.A. Angels 4
Final Tampa Bay 3 Oakland 0
Final Texas 3 Boston 1
Final Cleveland 5 Chi White Sox 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final Arizona 7 Miami 6
Final N-Y Mets 5 St. Louis 0
Final Colorado 7 Philadelphia 3
Final San Francisco 4 L.A. Dodgers 0
Final Atlanta 10 Milwaukee 1
Final Chi Cubs 3 San Diego 0
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – The Golden State Warriors have a 2-0 lead in the NBA’s Western Conference finals after Stephen (STEH’-fehn) Curry delivered 33 points, and six assists in a 99-98 triumph over Houston. The Warriors blew most of a 17-point, second-quarter lead despite shooting 53 percent from the field. James Harden had 38 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists for the Rockets, who host Game 3 in Saturday.
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
CHICAGO (AP) – Simon Despres (deh-PRAY’) scored the game-winner in the second period and Frederik Andersen made 27 saves as the Anaheim Ducks beat Chicago 2-1 to grab a two-games-to-one lead in the NHL’s Western Conference finals. Andersen blanked the Blackhawks after Patrick Kane beat him in the final minute of the second period. Patrick Maroon provided the Ducks’ first goal on a power play in the first period, and Ryan Getzlaf (GETS’-laf) set up both Anaheim tallies.
Game 4 is in Chicago on Saturday.
NBA-ALL FIRST TEAM…
UNDATED (AP) – Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James and Golden State guard Stephen (STEH’-fehn) Curry are unanimous choices for the NBA All-Star team.
The first and second teams consist of two Cavaliers and eight players from the Western Conference. James and Curry are joined on the first team by Anthony Davis of New Orleans, Marc Gasol (gah-SOHL’) of Memphis and Houston’s James Harden.
The second team has Portland’s LaMarcus Aldridge, DeMarcus Cousins of the Kings, Chicago’s Pau Gasol (pow gah-SOHL’), Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook and Chris Paul of the Clippers.
GOLF…
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – Masters champion Jordan Spieth (speeth) has a share of the first-round lead in the rain-delayed Colonial in Fort Worth. Spieth drained a 20-foot birdie putt to complete a 6-under 64, putting him in a tie with Kevin Na (nah), Boo Weekley and Ryo Ishikawa. George McNeill and Ian Poulter are one stroke back.
FRENCH LICK, Ind. (AP) – Massy Kuramoto is the first-round leader in the Senior PGA Championship at Pete Dye Course in French Lick, Indiana. Kuramato opened with a 1-under 71, one stroke better than five players. Colin Montgomerie, Billy Andrade (AHN’-drayd) and Barry Lane share second with Jean Francois Remesy and Bart Bryant.
In world and national news…
LONDON (AP) – A roadside bombing in Iraq that killed a U.S. soldier in 2007 has led to a life sentence for a British man. Anis Abid Sardar was accused of assembling bombs in Syria that were planted on the western outskirts of Baghdad that year. One of the devices killed Sgt. 1st Class Randy Johnson of 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment. The 38-year-old Sardar was arrested years later after investigators found his fingerprints on some of the devices. He must serve a minimum 38 years.
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) – A human rights watchdog is pointing fingers at both sides in the conflict in eastern Ukraine. An Amnesty International report says war crimes happen almost daily, including torturing prisoners and summarily killing them. Amnesty says in a statement that it has heard from former captives of both Ukrainian government and separatist forces who recount the atrocities.
SANAA, Yemen (AP) – Camps and weapons depots belonging to Shiite rebels in Yemen’s capital are taking another pounding from airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition. Besides Sanaa, airstrikes also targeted the rebels, known as Houthis (HOO’-theez), in Saada, their northern heartland. The Houthis have carried out cross-border attacks from Saada, which borders Saudi Arabia.
SOUTHERN SHUNEH, Jordan (AP) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he remains committed to setting up a Palestinian state alongside Israel, in the lands Israel captured in 1967. Speaking at a regional World Economic Forum conference in Jordan, Abbas says Israel stands in the way of any peace deal because it is perpetuating its military occupation and keeps expanding settlements.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Police say they haven’t ruled out the possibility that other people were involved in the slayings of a wealthy Washington family and their housekeeper, following the arrest of a man accused in the deaths. Members of a fugitive task force arrested Daron Dylon Wint last night, about a week after authorities said the family was killed and their mansion set on fire. So far, no other suspects have been identified.
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