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Jamestown Valley City

Area projects funded

Bismarck CSi    The Industrial Commission today approved $5,202,225 in Outdoor Heritage Fund grants for 16 projects. “We are impressed with these projects recommended to us by the Outdoor Heritage Fund Advisory Board that will protect and enhance North Dakota’s resources across the entire state,” commission members said in a joint […]

State

Paris terrorists killed hostages freed

 PARIS (AP) – Two al-Qaida-linked brothers suspected of slaying 12 people at a Paris newspaper came out with guns blazing Friday, prompting an assault on the printing plant where they had been hold up with a hostage, a French police official said. They were killed and their hostage was freed, […]

Jamestown

Taxable Sales decline in 2014

Bismarck (CSi) The State Tax Department reports that in 2014, Jamestown and Stutsman County Taxable Sales and Purchases were off by more than seven percent compared to 2013. Retail sales for the same periods showed a 1 percent decline. The decline is the first in third quarter total sales since […]

Jamestown

JSDC looking to turn over Business Park lots

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corporation’s (JSDC) Executive Committee is recommending JSDC turn over the remaining seven lots in the I-94 Business Park to the city of Jamestown and is reviewing real estate policies. The city would then have the possibility of selling the lots at auction, to a possible […]

Jamestown

JRHS cat adoption fee at $99 end of Jan

Jamestown (CSi) The James River Humane Society reports the public responded over the Christmas holiday season, with a bake sale and donations Christmas trees at the Buffalo Mall, and Park Plaza Mall. On Friday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, President, Matt Opsahl said, the shelter generated about $650 […]

Valley City

Bid opening for new Faith Lutheran Church

Valley City (CSi)) Bids will be opened next Tuesday as a Valley City Church that was destroyed by fire in October of 2013, will be re-established with a new structure at a new location. The Rev. Jolene Knutson-Hanse, pastor at Faith Lutheran Church, said she thinks construction will begin when […]

Jamestown

Card party funds for scholarships

Jamestown (CSi) The Stutsman County Area Retired Teachers will host a scholarship fundraiser on Sunday February 1, 2015, at the James River Sr/Community Center in Jamestown. The Public Card Party will be 1-4-p.m., as Whist, Pinochle or Bridge will be offered at a cost of $5 which includes lunch, with […]

Valley City

Traffic stop nets drug arrest

Valley City (CSi) Valley City (CSi) During a routine traffic stop in Valley City Wednesday evening, in the 200 block of 2nd Avenue SE, authorities discovered drugs and weapons at around 11-p.m. The driver identified himself as 28 year-old Andrew Leach of Watford City. Probable cause suggested that the vehicle […]

State

NDHP high profile vehicle restrictions

Bismarck (CSi)  The North Dakota Highway Patrol has restricted the movements of oversized and high-profile loads in areas affected by North Dakota Department of Transportation travel alerts. High winds and blowing snow are reducing visibility throughout much of North Dakota. During inclement weather, operators of high profile vehicles, long-load type […]

State

Fatal bus train crash Larimore investigation

Update… GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Only one of 10 injured students taken to Altru Hospital in Grand Forks after a fatal collision involving a Larimore school bus and a freight train remains there.        Altru says six patients have now been discharged, including two more on Wednesday. Three […]