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CSi Weather…
REST OF TODAY…CLOUDYAND BREEZY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 50S. NORTHWEST WINDS
20 TO 25 MPH.
.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 40S. WEST WINDS AROUND
5 MPH. GUSTS UP TO 20 MPH IN THE EVENING.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S. SOUTH WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY IN THE EVENING…THEN MOSTLY
CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
AFTER MIDNIGHT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, 60 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. LOWS IN THE MID 50S. SOUTH WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA 60 PERCENT IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S. SOUTH WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH
SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST 10 TO 15 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EVENING…THEN MOSTLY CLOUDY
AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
.SATURDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. HIGHS IN THE MID
70S. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 80.
THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING IN THE WEST THURSDAY
AFTERNOON…SPREADING INTO CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA THURSDAY EVENING
THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT.
A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES FRIDAY FOR MAINLY NORTHERN AND
CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA.
A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS FORECAST FROM THE TURTLE
MOUNTAINS SOUTH INTO THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY SATURDAY.
Update…
Valley City (CSi) The Valley City Commission met Wednesday morning at 8:30 in Special Session at City Hall.
Commissioner Luke, was not present.
Commissioners approved receiving a petition for a Special Election for the mayor vacancy, and setting a Special Election date.
A group led by Janis Clark Klein successfully gathered the necessary signatures to have the City Commission call for an election to fill out the remaining two year term of former mayor Bob Werkhoven.
City Auditor Avis Richter said petitioners submitted, within the 15 day required time line, more than the 66 signatures from city residents needed for the city commission to set up an election.
Richter said City Commissioners will fornally address the Special Election Resolution at the June 7, 2016 City Commission meeting.
The time line will include time to officially publish notice of the election in the official newspaper.
Potential candidates will have 30 days to take out and have petitions signed, returned and qualified from June 13, 2016, to July 10, 2016.
Following the submission and approval of the petitions, candidates will have 64 days to campaign.
That sets the Special Election date of September 15, 2016.
Absentee voting will also be allowed in this election
Under the City Code, the City Commission may call a special election to fill the unexpired term, or may, after 15 days appoint a person to fill the unexpired term.
Another option is upon a petition of 5 percent of the qualified electors (based on the total number of ballots cast in the last city general election) the city commission must call a special election if there is more than 6 months left on the term, and the petition has been submitted within 15 days of the vacancy.
Mayor Robert Werkhoven resigned on May 12, 2016, and the City Commission accepted his resignation at the May 17, 2016, City Commission meeting. The current mayoral term in Valley City ends in June of 2018.
Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Police was called to Wells Fargo Bank’s parking lot in Downtown Jamestown, about 1-p.m. on Tuesday, when bank officials called a report that six male juveniles were involved in a skirmish at the bank parking lot.
Lt. Robert Opp says the incident was over when the units arrived.
Allegedly a couple of punches were thrown between those involved.
The youths apparently knew each other, and were the only ones involved.
No injuries were reported.
Opp says a report will be sent to juvenile authorities to determine if any action will be taken against those involved.
Jamestown (CSi) The North Dakota Aeronautics Commission has approved the airport’s grant application to cover part of the cost of acquiring, transporting and installing a Jetway passenger-boarding bridge. That according to Jamestown Regional Airport Authority Chairman, Jim Boyd.
The Airport Authority agreed to pay $32,000 for two passenger-boarding bridges from Minot International Airport in May. The total cost for the project is $126,000, which will cover the disassembling and transportation of the bridge and installing the bridge and connecting it to the airport terminal.
Boyd says the airport will receive about $88,000 for the passenger-boarding bridge.
Boyd was also informed by North Dakota Aeronautics Commission director, Kyle Wanner, that the commission had also approved the Airport Authority’s grant request to fund 90 percent of a project to expand the Jamestown Regional Airport’s terminal building. An interior wall of the terminal building will be moved out and the secure-seating area will be expanded from 39 to 50 seats.
Sam Seafeldt, Jamestown Regional Airport manager, said the terminal expansion project has a cost of $16,000, with the Airport Authority to pay about $1,600 for the local match.
Between the two projects Jamestown Regional Airport is receiving about $100,000 from the state.
Nome (CSi) The North Dakota Highway Patrol reports, a male escaped serious injury when the vehicle he was driving went into a slough about three miles east of Nome Monday morning.
The patrol says alcohol was a factor in the crash which remains under investigation.
DUI and DUS charges are pending against the man.
Bismarck (CSi) The NDDOT informs motorists that construction begins Thursday, June 2, 2016 on US Highway 52 north of Buchanan and will consist of the maintenance of roadway sensors. During the project a lane closure with flaggers will be in place.
During construction:
· The southbound lane is expected to be closed during the morning hours and all traffic will be maintained through the construction zone
· The northbound lane is expected to be closed during the afternoon hours and all traffic will be maintained through the construction zone
· Flaggers will be present in the area to direct traffic
· Speeds will be reduced to 25 mph
· Motorists may experience delays
The project is expected to be complete by early evening Friday, June 3.
For more information about construction projects and road conditions throughout North Dakota, call 511 from any type of phone or visit the Travel Information Map on the NDDOT website at http://www.dot.nd.gov/travel-info-v2/
WEST FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Children playing with water pistols are being credited with extinguishing a fire on the deck of a West Fargo house in which a person was sleeping inside.
The children noticed the fire Tuesday afternoon and attacked it with their water pistols before it could get out of hand. They also banged on the door to wake up the man inside, and one child ran to report the fire to an adult.
Fire Chief Dan Fuller says “we were probably minutes away from having a real, real serious fire.”
The Fire Department has invited the children to the station for a pizza party as a reward.
Investigators believe the fire was caused by discarded smoking materials.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – A 69-year-old Williston woman killed in an all-terrain vehicle crash was a music instructor who spent nearly half a century teaching in the city’s public schools.
The Highway Patrol says Kathleen Hovde died Monday afternoon in a pasture near her rural home. She was pinned between a fence post and a four-wheeled work utility vehicle that investigators speculate rolled downhill.
Hovde taught music and band to elementary students for 43 years. She retired in 2013, was a temporary instructor in 2014 and returned to full-time teaching last year.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A 19-year-old Bismarck man who allegedly fired a gun at a woman has been charged with attempted murder.
Trevor Peterson made his initial court appearance Tuesday but didn’t enter a plea. Court documents don’t list an attorney for him.
Police say the Sunday night shooting occurred after Peterson tried to sell drugs to a man and a woman outside of an apartment building.
Peterson allegedly punched the man in the face when they refused the offer, went inside the building and retrieved a handgun, which he fired into the air and at the woman. No one was hurt.
Peterson also is accused of breaking a window in a patrol car after being arrested.
He could face up to 21 years in prison if convicted of attempted murder and criminal mischief.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Minot police are investigating an armed robbery at a convenience store.
Authorities say a male with a handgun confronted an employee who was leaving a Superpumper store about 9 a.m. Tuesday to make a deposit.
The suspect took the bank bag and the employee’s purse and fled.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A man who walked away from North Dakota’s Missouri River Correctional Center nearly a month ago has been arrested in Tennessee.
Leroy Hollman went missing from the unfenced, minimum-security Bismarck lockup on May 2. He was arrested Monday in Newport, Tennessee, where he has family.
Hollman allegedly was in possession of a car registered in South Dakota that had been stolen in Bismarck. Authorities say he will face charges in Tennessee before being extradited to North Dakota, where he was serving time for drug possession, theft and giving false information to law enforcement. He was expected to get out of prison in about a year.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The sheriff’s office in Cass County says an inmate is facing an additional charge after he injured a deputy while he was being booked into the jail.
Authorities on Tuesday said inmate Michael Jonathon Cox head-butted deputy Bennett Strege on Sunday. Cox has been charged with simple assault of a peace officer in connection with the incident at the jail.
Strege sustained minor injuries.
The sheriff’s office says Cox originally had been arrested on a terrorizing charge. Authorities say Cox was not being cooperative when he arrived at the jail and refused to comply with the orders of the arresting officers.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota-based insurance company is accusing a major farm equipment manufacturer from Canada of making defective grain bins.
Farmers Union Mutual Insurance Company of Jamestown is suing Winnipeg-based Westeel in federal court. The suit seeks unspecified damages.
The insurance company says the grain bins failed three times last year when they were exposed to winds below 94 mph, the speed for which they’re designed.
Westeel officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Figures from a survey of supply managers in nine Midwest and Plains states have risen, suggesting economic growth ahead.
A report issued Wednesday says the Mid-American Business Conditions index hit 52.1 in May, compared with 50.1 in April and 50.6 in March.
Creighton University economist Ernie Goss oversees the survey, and he says the region’s manufacturing sector is expanding.
The survey results are compiled into a collection of indexes ranging from zero to 100. Survey organizers say any score above 50 suggests economic growth. A score below that suggests decline. The survey covers Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota.
MANDAN, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Public Service Commission is holding a public hearing in Mandan on a proposed $153 million wind farm and associated electric transmission line in Oliver and Morton counties.
A subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources is planning a wind farm of up to 48 turbines and associated facilities on about 34 square miles in northeastern Morton County and southeastern Oliver County. It would produce up to 100 megawatts of power.
The project also is to include a 4 1/2-mile-long, $11.4 million transmission line to connect the wind farm to the power grid.
The hearing is scheduled for 9 a.m. CDT Wednesday at Mandan City Hall.
In sports….
Valley City (CSi) The Valley City State University volleyball program has finalized its 2016 recruiting class this week with the addition of Leah Ruter, a native of Willmar, Minnesota.
A 5-foot-11 outside hitter, Ruter played last season at University of Minnesota Morris and will transfer to VCSU with three years of eligibility.
Jamestown (CSi)University of Jamestown head women’s wrestling coach Tony DeAnda announces the signing of Alyssa Schrull of East Helena, Montana, who will join the Jimmies in the fall of 2016.
Schrull competed four years for the Helena High Bengals and earned nine All-American honors in different divisions. She is a three-time USAW State Champion in folkstyle, freestyle, and Greco-Roman.
University of Jamestown head men’s basketball coach Danny Neville announces the signing of Jace Allard, who will join the Jimmies in the 2016-2017 season.
As a senior, Jace, a 6’3″ guard, averaged 17.5 points, 4.1 rebounds, and 3.9 assists per game for Rawlins High School in Wyoming. Allard was an All-State selection his junior and senior years, and was a three-time member of the All-Conference team.
University of Jamestown head men’s basketball coach Danny Neville announces the signing of Trey Butterworth of Wingate, Penn., who will join the Jimmies in the 2016-2017 season.
As a senior, Trey, a 5’9″ guard, averaged 18.2 points, 5.8 assists, and 3 steals per game for Bald Eagle Area High School in Pennsylvania. Trey was named 1st team All-Conference as a senior and voted best offensive player on his team.
University of Jamestown head coach Nick Becker announces the signing of Amanda Eijansantos of Livermore, Calif., who will join the Jimmies in the fall of 2016.
Amanda has been a two year starter at Granada High School. She was named Most Improved and Most Valuable Player, and also maintained a 4.0 grade point average. She played her club soccer for West Coast Soccer, where she was part of the National Cup Finalist team in 2014. She has also had success as a concertmaster in orchestra.
University of Jamestown head coach Nick Becker announces the signing of Jessica Friesz of Pahrump, Nev., who will join the Jimmies in the fall of 2016.
Jessica was a four-year player at Pahrump High School. She maintained a 4.0 GPA throughout high school.
Friesz played her club soccer for Pahrump Trojans, which posted two 10-win seasons with only one loss in each of those years.
University of Jamestown women’s track & field coach Jim Clark announces that Maddie Rue, who will be a 2016 graduate of Frazee High School in Frazee, Minn., has signed a North Star Athletic Association letter of intent and plans to participate in track & field for the Jimmies.
AA…
Fargo-Moorhead 11, Sioux City 8
MLB…
INTERLEAGUE
Final Seattle 16 San Diego 4
Final Houston 8 Arizona 5
Final Chi White Sox 6 N-Y Mets 4
AMERICAN LEAGUE
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – Danny Valencia homered and drove in three runs, Stephen Vogt had three hits and drove in two and the Oakland Athletics won their fourth straight, beating the Minnesota Twins 7-4 on Tuesday night.
Twins outfielder Miguel Sano left the game after straining his left hamstring running to first base in the third.
Tyler Duffey (2-4) gave up at least five runs for a third consecutive start after giving up eight – five earned – through his first four starts combined.
Final Texas 7 Cleveland 3
Final Boston 6 Baltimore 2
Final Toronto 4 N-Y Yankees 1
Final Kansas City 10 Tampa Bay 5
Final L.A. Angels 11 Detroit 9
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final Washington 5 Philadelphia 1
Final San Francisco 4 Atlanta 0
Final Miami 3 Pittsburgh 1
Final L.A. Dodgers 5 Chi Cubs 0
Final St. Louis 10 Milwaukee 3
Final Colorado 17 Cincinnati 4
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
NEW YORK (AP) – Maya Moore scored 25 points and the Minnesota Lynx remained unbeaten with a 79-69 win over the New York Liberty on Tuesday night.
Final Phoenix 99 Connecticut 90
NCAA TOURNAMENT-MINNESOTA..
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Minnesota has returned to the NCAA baseball tournament for the first time in six years, set to begin play in College Station, Texas, in one of the 16 regionals.
The Big Ten regular season champion Gophers got the No. 2 seed in the four-team draw hosted by top seed Texas A&M, joined by No. 3 seed Wake Forest and No. 4 seed Binghamton. The Gophers (34-20) will play Wake Forest on Friday afternoon to begin the double-elimination event that runs if necessary through Monday.
This will be the Big Ten-leading 31st appearance in the NCAA tournament for the Gophers, the 18th under current coach John Anderson.
FRENCH OPEN…
PARIS (AP) – French Open officials are hoping to see plenty of sunshine today after rain caused the postponement of most matches the previous two days. Novak Djokovic (NOH’-vak JOH’-kuh-vich) owned a 3-6, 6-4, 4-1 lead over No. 14 Roberto Bautista Agut (ah-GOO’) when their fourth-round match was halted by rain. Second seed Andy Murray and No. 3 Stan Wawrinka (vah-VRIHN’-kuh) are part of today’s schedule, as are women’s top seed Serena Williams and No. 4 Garbine Muguruza (gahr-BEE’-nuh muh-guh-ROO’-thuh).
NFL…
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) – The AFL-CIO has filed a friend of the court brief on behalf of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, asking the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a decision handed down by a three-judge panel in April.
Brady was suspended four games for what the league said was a scheme to use improperly inflated footballs in the 2015 AFC Championship game. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell rejected Brady’s initial appeal and gave him a four-game ban before the punishment was thrown out and later reinstated by the courts.
The AFL-CIO said in its brief that Goodell “acted arbitrarily as an employer seeking to justify his own disciplinary decision rather than as a neutral arbitrator considering an appeal.”
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – It looks like the NFL is moving the Pro Bowl from Honolulu to Orlando. Three people with knowledge of the negotiations have told The Associated Press that an announcement will be made Wednesday.
The game will be played at Camping World Stadium, formerly the Citrus Bowl. Orlando beat out Honolulu, Houston and Sydney for the right to host the all-star game.
OBITS-FORMER NHL PLAYERS PASS AWAY..
UNDATED (AP) – Two of the NHL’s top players of the 1970s have passed away.
The Philadelphia Flyers say Rick MacLeish has died at age 66. The three-time All-Star was a key member of the 1970s Broad Street Bullies teams, scoring the Stanley Cup winning goal for them against Boston in 1974. He was the eighth player in NHL history to record a 50-goal season, and he scored 328 of his 349 career goals with the Flyers.
Former NHL All-Star Tom Lysiak has died of leukemia at the age of 63. The former Atlanta Flame and Chicago Blackhawk played 13 NHL seasons and was an All-Star in 1975, 1976 and 1977.
Lysiak was the second player taken in the 1973 NHL draft and finished with 292 goals and 843 points in 919 career games.
In world and natioanl news…
CAIRO (AP) – Searchers may be closer to finding the black boxes from the EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean last month, killing all 66 people on board. Egypt says a French ship has picked up signals from deep underwater. They’re presumed to be from the black boxes of the Airbus A320.
RICHMOND, Texas (AP) – Some rural southeastern Texas counties are bracing for more flooding along a river that’s reached a record high. Large sections of suburban communities southwest of Houston are underwater, and more rain is in the forecast. The Brazos (BRAZ’-uhs) River has reached 54.37 feet, just two years after it had run dry in places because of drought.
PARIS (AP) – Cities and towns around France have been hit with flooding, or are threatened with rising waters. In Paris, the Seine River has overflowed its embankments. Unusually heavy rain in recent days has caused exceptional delays at the French Open and forced the evacuation of two prisons and left tourists soaking at sights around Paris.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – Turkey’s prime minister says his country’s relations with Germany will be harmed if the parliament in Berlin votes to describe the killings of Armenians during World War I as genocide. Binali Yildirim said, however, that Turkey wouldn’t nix a key deal with the European Union on curbing migrant flows to Europe over the genocide issue.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea says a group of North Koreans who escaped from a Pyongyang-run restaurant overseas where they had been working have arrived in the South. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency has reported that three North Korean women who had been working at a restaurant in China arrived in South Korea after flying in from Thailand.
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