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Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — The Jamestown City Council met in Special Session Wednesday afternoon (Mar 6, 2013) at City Hall.

The Council recessed into Executive Session with the City Attorney to consult about the territorial service claims by Stutsman Rural Water District.

At issue is whether the City of Jamestown, or Stutsman Rural Water District is to serve the area west of Jamestown, in this case, specifically the Titan Machinery building, under construction, across from Jamestown Regional Medical Center.

Attending the Executive Session were: Mayor Andersen, City Administrator Jeff Fuchs, City Attorney Ken Dalsted, City Fire Chief Jim Reuther, and City Council Members, Kourajian, Gumke, Brubakken, and Buchanan.

　

Following the Executive Session the Special Session was reconvened.

Mayor Andersen said there was no action to be taken by the City Council, on issues discussed at the Executive Session.

　

Under Resolutions:

The Council then tabled consideration of awarding bids for the water and sewer district that would service the Titan Machinery building under construction across from Jamestown Regional Medical Center, which needs to be awarded by March 30th this year, or re-bid.

The bids, previously expired requiring re-biding.

The area is under contention by the city and SRWD regarding the service claims.

The awarding of the bids was tabled at the March 4, 2013 City Council meeting, as at that time Mayor Andersen was unsure how to proceed, based on negotiations at that time with SRWD.

The open portion of Wednesday’s meeting was shown live on CSi 67.

Dispite the continued impasse, construction on the Titan building has restarted.

C.I. Construction, President and project manager for the Titan Machinery project, Robert Thompson says, construction workers have installed a water line from the building to the east edge of the property, allowing continued construction of the building and space around the structure.

Thompson adds the plan is to finish the building and have either the City of Jamestown or Stutsman Rural Water connect to its line after a decision is reached, as to which entity will provide Titan with water.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News ) — The James River Valley Library System Library Board has hired Bill Kennedy of Jamestown as a development director, to raise funds for a new library building.

Kennedy was hired to rais funds for a new library building, working a on a 40-hour-a-week contract for $34 an hour.

His salary will be paid with money the library has put aside.

The library system was recently pledged a donation of half a section of land, valued at approximately $900,000.

Kennedy was mostly recently the marketing director at Ave Maria Village in Jamestown, and prior to that held the same position at Jamestown Regional Medical Center/Jamestown Hospital.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Mar 6, 2013) — Representatives from the Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corporation are on hand at the North Dakota Winter Show in Valley City.

On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, JSDC, CEO, Connie Ova said,

the Winter Show booth is staffed by the JSDC, along with Great River Energy, and Cenex Harvest States, to answer question about economic development, along with the upcoming plants coming to the Spiritwood Energy Park.

She noted that late this summer will be the groundbreaking for the GRE facility, with the opening in 2014.

She added that the railroad spur line will be built along with that project.

Groundbreaking for the CHS fertilizer plant will be in 2014, and scheduled to be on line in 2016.

She pointed out that at the April JSDC board meeting, a representative will be on hand from ElderMark, talking about updates and future plans.

April 30th will be the JSDC Annual Meeting with more information coming on that.

At this month’s JSDC monthly board meeting, Ms. Ova said the board of directors authorized a Flex Pace interest buy down for Two Rivers Printing which would lower interest costs associated with the business acquiring a new location, at the former Waggin’ Tails Doggy Daycare location in Jamestown.

　

The loan would be a maximum of $54,000 that is used, plus a grant from the Bank of North Dakota, to lower the interest on the loan Two Rivers Printing will use to purchase the building.

Owners plan to expand the business and add additional employees.

　

The Flex Pace interest buy down reduces the interest expense of the real estate loan.

Once the primary loan is paid off, the business repays the JSDC over a two-year period.

The board action must be approved by the Jamestown City Council, and the Stutsman County Commission.

In other economic development notes, the Ag Week luncheon is planned by the Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerece Ag/Energy Committee, with featured speaker Endless Harvest, Project Manager, Steve Frohlich.

He will give updates on the commercial greenhouse project, looking to locate in Stutsman County.

The luncheon will be on Tuesday March 19, 2013 at the North Dakota Farmers Union building in Jamestown, noon-1-p.m.

Tickets are $10 per person and can be purchased at the door, on contact Lis at the chamber at 252-4830, or lisa@jamestownchamber.com

　

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — A Relay for Life fundraiser will be held on Saturday March 9, 2013, as Firehouse Ribs and Ava Maria Village will be bundling up to get rid of the winter blues by springing into BBQ Season for Relay for Life.

To help this special cause, businesses, employees, family, friends and the entire Jamestown community is invited to participate!!

Box BBQ lunches will be served at the Coborn’s Park Plaza parking lot, from 11am to 7pm, or until the food runs out.

To get ahead of the line, reserve your lunches today.

All special reservation sheets must be received by Thursday March 7, 2013.

Fax information to 701-486-3285, including business name, phone, address, number of persons, number of box lunches, list meals and choices.

Or E-Mail to firehouseribs@gmail.com

If you have any questions call 701-486-3265

*Pulled Pork Sandwich with Beans & Mac & Cheese $ 8.00

*BBQ Ribs with Beans and Mac & Cheese $ 8.00

*Beef Brisket with Beans, Mac & Cheese & Bread $10.00

　

Ft. Ransom, ND KCSi-T.V. news Mar 7, 2013) — A Fort Ransom woman has entered a not guilty plea, in connection with the investigation into the death of her 22 month old son.

Twenty-nine year old Jodi Lindvall appeared in Ransom County court Wednesday before Judge Jay Schmitz, entering the not guilty plea to a charge of murder.

Her 22-month old son Bentley, died three days after being brought to a Fargo Hospital.

Court records say the boy had bruises on his neck, broken bones and significant head trauma, injuries that prosecutors say were inconsistent with Lindvall’s account of what happened to cause the injuries.

She says that he hit his head while she was struggling to change his diaper.

Lindvall is currently free pending her next court appearance.

She faces up to life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted of the murder charge.

 

　WATFORD CITY, N.D. (AP) – The deaths of two Watford City teenagers in a violent crash has the city’s mayor calling for state officials to do more about traffic problems in the booming western oil patch.
 
     Mayor Brent Sanford says thousands of trucks are traveling on two-lane highways, and local residents are afraid to venture out. He calls it “an absolute horror story.”
 
     State Transportation Department spokeswoman Peggy Anderson says the state spent $50 million on U.S. Highway 85 improvements in the past two years and plans to spend another $300 million to convert the stretch between Watford City and Williston into four lanes.
 
     Seventeen-year-old Hank Allen and 18-year-old Austin McCaulley died Tuesday when the vehicle they were riding in slid on ice, collided with a semitrailer and split in half.

 

 MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) – Police are looking for two suspects after a man was shot and wounded in Moorhead, Minnesota. Officers were called to a home in south Moorhead around 3:45 p.m. yesterday on a report of gunshots. As officers were responding, the Red River Dispatch Center got a phone call from a man saying he had been shot. That man was taken to a hospital. Police are looking for two men in a black or dark navy Dodge Intrepid.
 

 

 DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) – Family members of a man killed in a hit-and-run incident in Dickinson say the bond amount set for the suspect in the case is too low.
 
     Judge Zane Anderson set bond at $5,000 cash for 47-year-old Timothy Menges, who is charged with felony negligent homicide in the Nov. 21 death of 47-year-old Tracy Freer in a motel parking lot.
 
     Police say Menges is from Missouri. He has lived in the Dickinson area the past 2  1/2 years and has a criminal record involving a weapons charge and traffic offenses.
 
     Prosecutor Rhonda Ehlis says $5,000 bond is enough to ensure Menges’ appearance in court, beginning with his preliminary hearing on April 22.
 
     Menges has requested a public defender.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota man has pleaded guilty to driving drunk and killing another man.
 
     U.S. Attorney Timothy Purdon announced Wednesday that 36-year-old Louis John Dunn, of Fort Totten, pleaded guilty to a charge of involuntary manslaughter.
 
     Prosecutors say Dunn drove drunk and into on-coming traffic on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation before striking another vehicle. The driver of that car, Andrew Greywater, died from his injuries.
 
     The charge carries a maximum penalty of eight years in prison.
 
     Sentencing is set for May 29.

 

 FORT YATES, N.D. (AP) – A Fort Yates woman is accused of stabbing her boyfriend’s cousin to death.
 
 30-year-old Morning Star Brown has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Jarrett Two Bear.
 
     Brown is scheduled to appear at a preliminary hearing and detention hearing on Thursday morning in federal court in Bismarck. She is now in the custody of the Burleigh County Detention Center.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A man who served several years in prison for a string of business burglaries in the Fargo area in 2009 is a suspect in a recent burglary.
 
     Forty-five-year-old Jeffrey Goodijohn, of neighboring Moorhead, Minn., is charged in the February 16th burglary of FM Exhaust and Brake – a business that authorities say he burglarized four years ago. Police say more than $12,000 was taken from a safe at the business last month.
 
     Goodijohn is still on probation for his earlier crimes, which included 16 business burglaries.
 
     The public defender listed in court documents for Goodijohn did not comment Wednesday, saying she had not yet officially been given the case.

 

 MINOT, N.D. (AP) – The number of temporary federal housing units still occupied in Ward County has dropped to about 400.
 
     The Federal Emergency Management Agency made more than 2,000 mobile homes available to residents displaced by the historic Souris River flood in the summer of 2011. FEMA last year extended the temporary housing program by six months, through June 24, though the agency began charging rent at the beginning of this year.
 
     FEMA also is selling some of the temporary homes to the people living in them. At the end of February, 68 sales had been finalized.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Frustration is growing among small airport managers outraged that new full-body scanners are being hauled away and sent to bigger airports.
 
     The machines being replaced at bigger airports have been criticized for showing too much anatomy.
 
     Smaller airport officials say removal of the machines from their terminals means longer lines, increased pat-downs, decreased security and a waste of taxpayer money.
 
     Some airports are balking at the move.
 
     U.S. Transportation Security Administration contractors who came to remove the machines in Montana were threatened with arrest after airport officials said they had no notice the workers were on their way.
 
     In North Dakota, the scanners are set to be yanked from a terminal remodeled last year with $40,000 in local funds just to fit the new machines.

 

  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for grants to help promote specialty crops.
 
     State Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring says the USDA is expected to award $600,000 to North Dakota for the program. The maximum grant is $100,000.
 
     Goehring says the money can be used for projects such as developing seed varieties, reducing distribution costs, enhancing food safety and developing local and regional food systems.
 
     Besides various vegetables, specialty crops grown commercially in North Dakota include dry beans, dry peas, confection sunflowers, lentils, potatoes, grapes and honey.
 
     Applications are due by May 3.

 

 GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Members of a Grand Forks economic development group are delaying acting on a request by Cirrus Aircraft’s for a loan to help the company expand.
 
     The Grand Forks Herald reports that city’s Growth Fund Committee decided not to act on the company’s request for a $950,000 loan to purchase equipment and expand its local production facility.
 
     The new loan would increase Cirrus’ monthly payment to the city from $70,000 to about $90,000.

 

 DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Board of Higher Education has named Doug Darling the new president of Lake Region State College.
 
     Darling is currently the college’s interim president and vice president of Instructional Services. He was previously the director of the Lake Area Vocational Technical Center in Devils Lake from 1995 to 1998.
 
     Board President Duaine Espegard says that the Board is confident Darling is the right leader for the job and that he will continue to be an asset to the Devils Lake community.
 
     Darling earned a Ph.D. in occupation and adult education from North Dakota State University. He holds a master’s degree and bachelor’s degree from the University of North Dakota.

 

In sports…

 JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) – Half of the six teams from the Dakotas who made the NAIA Division II men’s and women’s basketball tournaments are going home.
 
     The Valley City State men’s team on Wednesday lost 75-72 to Indiana University Southeast at the national tournament in Point Lookout, Mo.
 
     In the women’s tournament in Sioux City, Iowa, Bethel defeated Valley City State 73-69, and Northwestern of Iowa downed Mayville State 92-66.
 
     Three more Dakotas teams play their first-round games Thursday: the Jamestown College men’s and women’s teams and the Dakota State men’s team.

 

From Jim Roaldson…

There will be a meeting for all parents & athletes of JHS spring sports that have not yet attended a previous player/parent meeting. If you have attended in the fall or winter you do not need to attend. Meeting will take place at Jamestown High School, Monday March 11th @ 6:00 PM in the Jerry Meyer Arena. Any questions can be directed to JHS Activities Director, Jim Roaldson @ 952-4005.

 

　 LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) – A Wyoming basketball player from North Dakota is accused of kicking a man in the face during a bar fight has pleaded not guilty. Senior guard Luke Martinez of Bismarck entered his plea before Judge Jeffrey Donnell yesterday in Laramie, Wyoming. He is charged with one count of aggravated assault and battery.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota National Guard has won a team championship at the 29th Annual Chief of the National Guard Bureau Biathlon Championships.
 
     This is the second time the North Dakota team has won the National Guard championship during the past four years. The four athletes that competed on the winning team are Maj. Eric Nordgren, of Pelican Rapids, Minn., 1st Lt. Blake Hillerson, of St. Paul, Minn., 1st Lt. Robert Meland, of Bismarck, N.D., and Spc. Conrad Roberts, of Battle Lake, Minn.
 
     The sport of biathlon combines cross-country skiing with rifle marksmanship on a 50-meter range.
 
     The competition was held last week at Camp Ripley, Minn.

 

NATIONAL  BASKETBALL  ASSOCIATION

 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Ricky Rubio had 15 points and 11 assists last night to lead the Minnesota Timberwolves to an 87-82 victory over the Washington Wizards. Derrick Williams added 16 points for the Timberwolves, who snapped a six-game losing streak. John Wall had 19 points and Trevor Ariza added 16 for Washington.
 
   Final    Boston                  83    Indiana                81
   Final    Brooklyn              99    Charlotte            78
   Final    Cleveland          104    Utah                    101
   Final    New  York              87    Detroit                77
   Final    Miami                    97    Orlando                96
   Final    Atlanta              107    Philadelphia      96
   Final    L-A  Lakers        108    New  Orleans      102
   Final    Memphis                91    Portland              85
   Final    Dallas                112    Houston              108
   Final    San  Antonio      101    Chicago                83
   Final    Toronto                98    Phoenix                71
   Final    L-A  Clippers    117    Milwaukee          101
   Final    Golden  State      87    Sacramento          83
 
 
       NATIONAL  HOCKEY  LEAGUE
 
   Final    Toronto      5    Ottawa          4
   Final    Chicago      3    Colorado      2
   Final    Calgary      4    San  Jose      1
   Final    Anaheim      2    Phoenix        0
 
 
COLLEGE  BASKETBALL

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Brandon Ubel scored 15 points last night to lead Nebraska past Minnesota 53-51. Dylan Talley added 12 points for the Cornhuskers, who won despite shooting just 36 percent. Trevor Mbakwe led the Gophers with 15 points and Andre Hollins added 14.
 
   Final                    Villanova                67    (  5)  Georgetown          57
   Final                    Georgia  Tech          71    (  6)  Miami                    69
   Final          (  7)  Michigan                  80              Purdue                  75
   Final          (11)  Florida                    66              Vanderbilt          40
   Final          (12)  New  Mexico              75              Nevada                  62
   Final                    Iowa  St.                  87    (13)  Oklahoma  St.      76
   Final  OT              Xavier                      77    (16)  Saint  Louis        66
   Final          (17)  Syracuse                  78              DePaul                  57
   Final          (21)  VCU                            93              Richmond              82
   Final                    Washington  St.      73    (23)  UCLA                      61
 
 
       TOP-25  WOMEN’S  COLLEGE  BASKETBALL
 
   Final    (16)  Delaware      86    Georgia  St.      58
   Final    (25)  Toledo          63    Ball  St.            39

NFL…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Six-time Pro Bowl kicker David Akers has been released by the San Francisco 49ers after two seasons. Akers set NFL records in 2011 with 44 field goals made and 52 attempted, while tying the league mark with a 63-yarde boot against Green Bay in the season opener. But Akers made just 29 of 44 attempts last season, his lowest percentage since 1999.

 

GOLF…
 
     DORAL, Fla. (AP) – Rory McIlroy says the pressure of meeting expectations as golf’s No. 1 player got the best of him when he quit and walked off the course last week. He says he has learned his lesson and “it won’t happen again.” McIlroy met with the media for the first time since he quit after eight holes Friday at the Honda Classic and apologized for his “mistake.”

 

In world and national news…

 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – Despite its threat of a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the U.S., North Korea is not thought to have mastered the ability to produce a warhead small enough to put on a missile capable of reaching the U.S. North Korea issued the threat today, ahead of a vote by U.N. diplomats on new sanctions against Pyongyang for its recent nuclear test.
 
     CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – The head of Venezuela’s presidential guard He said says President Hugo Chavez’s cancer was very advanced when death came but gave no details. Gen. Jose Ornella (ohr-NAY’-uh) tells The Associated Press Chavez died of a massive heart attack after great suffering and inaudibly mouthed his desire to live.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate Judiciary Committee is preparing today for Congress’ first votes on curbing firearms since December’s shootings at a Connecticut elementary school. President Barack Obama’s prospects for winning near-universal background checks for gun purchases seems shaky, even if it gets to full Senate consideration.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – Parts of the new England coast are hunkering down ahead of possible flooding from a storm moving in from the Mid-Atlantic region. Strong winds and several inches of snow are also forecast.
 
     MILAN (AP) – Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to a year in jail following his conviction for the illegal publication of transcripts of wiretapped conversations in a newspaper owned by his media empire. He is unlikely to be put behind bars during a possible appeal. The verdict carries no impact on Berlusconi’s eligibility to participate in a new government.