Subscribe by RSS
CSi Weather…
.TONIGHT…Cloudy. A 20 percent chance of light rain in the evening in the Valley City area. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows around 40. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY…Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of rain showers in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain
showers in the evening. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY…Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of rain showers in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s.
Update…
Jamestown (CSi) Otter Tail Power Company in Jamestown reports two utility pole fires Thursday night caused power outages.
A utility pole fire in Southeast Jamestown Thursday evening caused a power outage to 10 customers, lasting about two hours.
Other customers experienced a brief power outage. Otter Tail’s Jamestown Officer, Operations Manager, Charles Krebs says the cause was equipment failure, due to a burned conductor.
He says , the pole may need replacement, and if so. another planned outage can be expected to those ten customers.
The Jamestown City Fire Department was called to the scene in the alley in at 1410 11th Street Southeast, at 9:35-p.m.
Upon arrival, about 9:45 p.m., the fire department found the power pole was red on top with embers flying off the pole due to wind.
Lt. Sheldon Mohr says four city fire units and 21 firefighters were on the scene about 25-minutes until Otter Tail crews arrived on the scene.
There was smoke and some burn damage to the top of the pole. Power lines stayed in place.
Krebs adds that another outage occurred Thursday evening east of Old Highway 10 past the “S” curves toward Spiritwood, in the feeder line affecting 15-25 rural customers east of Bloom, ranging from 8:30 p.m., to 12:30-a.m.
In that case water had seeped into a cracked insulator, causing a fire on the pole, and the outage.
He says that burned pole may need replacement as well.
Jamestown (CSi) New Hope Free Lutheran Church at 1545 4th Avenue, Northwest in Jamestown hosts special meetings with prophetic minster, Hugh Laybourn from Lewiston, Idaho, May 18-20.
Pastor Steve Berntson and members of New Hope invite the community to join them, for any or all of the weekend meetings.
Hugh Laybourn, has been in ministry for over 40 years, serving as pastor, evangelist and then traveling in apostolic and prophetic ministry.
On Friday May 18th at 7-p.m., he will be joined by musical guest, Pastor Mark Haines, leading the worship.
Saturday May 19th at 7-p.m., with musical guests Randy Schlecht, and Cathy Hoeckle leading worship.
Sunday May 20th, Hugh will be sharing the 9-a.m., adult education hour and at the 10:30-a.m. worship service.
CASSELTON, N.D. (AP) – The Highway Patrol has identified the man struck and killed by a semitrailer while he was walking on Interstate 94.
Highway Patrol Captain Bryan Niewind says 35-year-old William Schneeman died at the scene just west of Casselton around 3:13am on Thursday, May 17.
The driver of the semitrailer 36 year-old Sean Peden of St. Cloud, Minnesota, was unable to take evasive action and struck Schneeman.
Peden wasn’t hurt but was shaken emotionally and taken to a Fargo hospital were he was treated and released.
WATFORD, N.D. (AP) — Family members say a Fargo woman who survived a rollover crash near Bismarck a week ago, died four days later from an existing medical condition.
Sixty-six-year-old Patricia Westerholm was involved in a crash last Friday and was treated and released from Sanford Hospital in Bismarck. Her son, Tom Westerholm, says his mother then left for her mom’s house in Waterford City where she was originally headed before the crash.
WDAY-TV reports Westerholm collapsed at her mother’s home Tuesday. She was taken to McKenzie County Healthcare Systems hospital in Waterford City where she died later that day. Her son says his mother died from a ruptured aortic aneurysm and had a history of aneurysms.
PARSHALL, N.D. (AP) — An Air Force base in North Dakota that is missing some military explosives is now also searching for a machine gun.
The M240 machine gun was discovered missing during a routine weapons inventory at Minot Air Force Base on Wednesday. Lt. Col. Jamie Humphries says no ammunition is missing.
Air Force Global Strike Command leaders have directed an inventory of weapons in response.
The base also is missing a container of ammunition for an automatic grenade launcher. It fell off a vehicle on an American Indian reservation on May 1, and searches failed to turn up any trace of it. The military has offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to recovery.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — More than a dozen members of a medical personnel leadership committee in North Dakota have resigned over patient service and employee satisfaction.
The Bismarck Tribune reports that 13 physicians resigned Tuesday from CHI St. Alexius Health’s Medical Executive Committee, which acts as a governing body for medical staff. A letter earlier this month said the members would resign unless the hospital replaced four administrators in Fargo.
The May 1 letter said the Fargo facility’s staff is “chronically overburdened.” The letter cited attempts by nurses to unionize over patient-care related concerns.
The hospital board announced Thursday it has created a working subcommittee to engage in dialogue to work through the issues and determine next steps.
The committee will still function with its four remaining members
MINOT, N.D. (AP) — A Minot man accused of fatally stabbing a woman in the city last year is on trial.
The Minot Daily News reports that jury selection began Thursday in state district court in the trial of 27-year-old Bradley Morales.
Morales has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in the stabbing last Aug. 16 of 25-year-old Sharmaine Leake during an apparent domestic dispute. She died six days later when her family took her off life support.
The trial is scheduled to last through next week. Morales could face life in prison if convicted.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says the public school boards in Beulah and West Fargo recently violated the state’s open meetings law.
Stenehjem says the Beulah board didn’t provide proper public notice of a Feb. 13 special committee meeting, and that the meeting’s agenda was vague. He told the board to update the meeting minutes and provide them to anyone who wants them.
Stenehjem says the West Fargo board violated the law during its January meeting by taking final action on a matter during an executive session that was closed to the public. He told the board to update the meeting minutes with more details of the closed session.
BISMARCK (NDHP)To kick off the 2018 Click It or Ticket seat belt initiative, the North Dakota Highway Patrol (NDHP) will be participating in Operation Border to Border (B2B), a 1-day national seat belt awareness kickoff event spearheaded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
The B2B program aims to increase law enforcement participation by coordinating highly visible seat belt enforcement. The B2B event will be Monday, May 21 from 8 am through noon. The B2B operation begins the Click It or Ticket initiative that runs through June 3 and includes the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
“Border to Border initiatives allow many law enforcement agencies to focus resources on seat belt enforcement and child restraint laws with the ultimate goal to reduce serious injury and fatal crashes.” said NDHP Safety and Education Officer Lt. Michael Roark. “We are working across state lines with Montana, South Dakota and Minnesota to do all we can
to keep drivers and passengers safe. Wearing a seat belt is the number one thing everyone can do to help prevent death or injury during a vehicle crash,” he said.
Roark stated, “This doesn’t mean writing more tickets—it means saving more lives. Through our enforcement efforts, we believe we keep community members safe while reminding drivers of the importance of buckling up.”
The national seat belt use rate is currently at 90.1 percent, according to NHTSA’s 2016 data, up from 88.5 percent in 2015. The Click It or Ticket campaign focuses on the remaining 9.9 percent—some 32 million people who still don’t buckle up.
More resources on the B2B Initiative and the Click It or Ticket mobilization are available from NHTSA’s website at www.nhtsa.gov/ciot.
In sports…
Jamestown (CSi) Drag Racing May 19th CANCELED due to weather. On Saturday it will be determined if there will be racing on Sunday.
VALLEY CITY, N.D. (VCSUVikings.com)- Three Valley City State University men’s golfers have been named Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes, the NAIA national office announced Thursday.
Viking senior Kyle Wiebe and juniors Dalton Beighley and Jared Lentz all received the honor. The NAIA Scholar-Athlete award recognizes students who demonstrate consistent success in the classroom while handling the heavy time demands of being a student-athlete. In order to qualify for this honor, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale and must have achieved a junior academic status.
Wiebe, a native of Madison, Saskatchewan, recently graduated with a degree in business administration. Beighley, from Pahrump, Nev., is pursuing a degree in software engineering while Valley City native Lentz is studying business administration.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The number of deer hunting licenses being offered in North Dakota this year is up slightly for a third straight year.
The 55,150 licenses approved by the Game and Fish Department for the 2018 season are just 1 percent more than last year. But licenses have risen 27 percent from the recent low of 43,275 in 2015, when they bottomed out after seven straight years of decline.
They’re inching closer to goal of state wildlife officials to have 75,000 licenses by 2020.
Wildlife Chief Jeb Williams says achieving that depends largely on conservation programs in the next federal farm bill, because more deer habitat is needed.
The 2018 deer gun season opens at noon Nov. 9 and runs through Nov. 25. The deadline to apply for a license is June 6.
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump has ordered that U.S. flags fly at half-staff as a mark of “solemn respect” for those affected by the school shooting in Texas.
Flags are to be flown at half-staff until sunset on May 22. The order applies to the White House and all public buildings and grounds, military posts and naval stations and vessels, as well as at U.S. embassies, consular offices and other facilities abroad. The flag atop the White House was immediately lowered on Friday.
Texas authorities say 10 people, mostly students, were killed Friday when a 17-year-old student carrying a shotgun and a revolver opened fire at a Houston-area high school.
Ten other people were wounded at the school in Santa Fe.
Comments are closed
Sorry, but you cannot leave a comment for this post.