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Jamestown

Northern Excavating cited by OSHA

ROSS, N.D. (AP) – Federal labor officials have cited a North Dakota sand and gravel mine for the eighth time for allowing employees to work under risky conditions. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Northern Excavating Co. in Jamestown. Officials say mine operators allowed […]

State

Target closing Canadian stores

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Target is closing up shop in Canada. More than 17,600 employees will eventually lose their jobs when the U.S. discount retailer closes its 133 Canadian stores after only about two years to end financial losses that went as high as a billion dollars a year. Target Corp. […]

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JSDC approves FlexPace rubric language

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corporation (JSDC) Board of Directors has approved language changes in order to create a rubric. On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2,  JSDC’s Office Administrator, Kaitlin Dillard said a JSDC Flex PACE, committee was formed, and met twice in December of 2014 to […]

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JFD called out Thurs morning

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Fire Department was called to a reported vehicle fire in the 400 block of First Avenue North, where a vehicle was parked on the street, near Loaf and Jug about 10:49 a.m. There was no fire, just an engine antifreeze leak that caused steam from […]

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Dec 2014 ND Jmst airline travel increases

Bismarck (CSi) North Dakota’s commercial service airports finished 2014 with a record high 1,240,681 boardings, a 9% increase from the previous record set in 2013. In Jamestown in December 2014, there were 639 boardings, aboard United Express/SkyWest larger aircraft up from 214 in December of 2013, when the smaller Great […]

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Salvation Army may cut programs

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Salvation Army reports that without hitting the goal for the 2014 Red Kettle campaign it is looking at the next three months to make up for this lack in donations. Lt. Mitch Brecto says, “If we don’t recover by then, programs may have to be cut.” […]

State Valley City

Suit filed for manhunt costs

Fargo (CSi)    A company that was transporting an inmate, Joseph Megna, who escaped and hid for nearly a day in a North Dakota cornfield in 2011 is suing its insurance carrier for refusing to cover fines and reimbursement costs related to the escape and an ensuing manhunt. Megna took the […]

Sports State

Hill back in ring

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Five-time world champion boxer Virgil Hill is stepping into the ring for a final time.        The North Dakota boxer says he will fight Seattle boxer Roger Cantrell at the Bismarck Event Center on Feb. 28. Tickets go on sale Friday.        Hill will […]

State

Drilling rig count drops

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Energy regulators say North Dakota set a new record high for the number of barrels of oil produced per day in November, but the number of rigs has since decreased.        The state produced over 1.18 million barrels a day in November, about 2,571 more […]

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Apps for committee & board openings due Feb 13

Jamestown (CSi) The City of Jamestown is currently accepting applications for various volunteer committee/board openings. They Include: One opening on the Planning Commission-unexpired 5 year term One opening on the Civil Service Commission-5 year term Two openings on the James River Valley Library System Board-3 year term Anyone interested in […]