{"id":167886,"date":"2019-03-21T10:26:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T15:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=167886"},"modified":"2019-03-21T10:26:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T15:26:26","slug":"airport-approve-drag-races-july-13-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=167886","title":{"rendered":"Airport approve drag races July 13-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-125223\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DragRace2017-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DragRace2017-300x202.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DragRace2017-260x175.png 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DragRace2017.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi) the Jamestown Regional Airport Authority this month, approved a request from Jamestown Drag Racing Association to utilize an \u00a0airport runway for the \u00a0annual drag racing event on July 13-14, 2019, subject to FAA acceptance, plus a $2,000 fee and any required repairs from the races.<\/p>\n<p>The Authority also approved contracts amounting to $112,670 for 1,024 acres of airport land for farmland, tillable, along and haying leases, and accepting a final closeout report for a wildlife hazard assessment and payment, that are with approval of the FAA approval and receipt of FAA and North Dakota Aeronautics grant funds.<\/p>\n<p>Airport Manager Katie Hemmer reported the airport intends to purchase a plow truck and a fifth wheel spreader for ice control.<\/p>\n<p>She pointed out that<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=167058\"> passenger boardings were down in February this year, <\/a>from 2018, adding that boarding averages are still on target to reach 10,000 this year.\u00a0 She said, that February boardings were down due to weather related flight cancellations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi) the Jamestown Regional Airport Authority this month, approved a request from Jamestown Drag Racing Association to utilize an \u00a0airport runway for the \u00a0annual drag racing event on July 13-14, 2019, subject to FAA acceptance, plus a $2,000 fee and any required repairs from the races. The Authority also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167887,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167886\/revisions\/167887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}