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TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY. CHANCE OF FLURRIES. HIGHS AROUND 15.
NORTHWEST WINDS 10 TO 20 MPH. LOWEST WIND CHILLS AROUND 25 BELOW
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.TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 10 BELOW. NORTHWEST WINDS
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.WEDNESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS 10 TO 15. NORTH WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
LOWEST WIND CHILLS AROUND 30 BELOW IN THE MORNING.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 5 BELOW. NORTHEAST
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.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS 15 TO 20. EAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 5 TO 10 ABOVE.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE
OF SNOW. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S. LOWS 10 TO 15.
.SATURDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. HIGHS IN THE
MID 20S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT
CHANCE OF SNOW. LOWS 10 TO 15. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 20S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. LOWS
AROUND 15.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 20S.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Transportation Department has lifted a no travel advisory for eastern North Dakota as a late-winter storm moves out of the area. That includes the Jamestown/Valley City area.
Officials are still urging motorists to be cautious because of snow and scattered ice on roadways. Roads in northeastern South Dakota also are reported to be slippery.
Jamestown City crews are planning to start snow removal in the RESIDENTIAL areas beginning at approximately 11:00 a.m. today (Tuesday, March 19, 2013.)
The schedule is contingent upon changing weather conditions and snow accumulation totals.
Valley City crews will start to remove snow in residential neighborhoods on Tuesday starting with the southeast section.
With the recent snowstorm, in Jamestown, Commercial Garbage Pickup was being picked up on Monday.
Containers not accessible were skipped on Monday, March 18, 2013, and will be picked up on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, along with the regularly scheduled Tuesday routes.
Valley City, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — The Valley City Commission met in Regular Session Monday (Mar 18, 2013) at City Hall. Commissioner Pedersen, and City Administrator Schelkoph were not present.
Approval of Consent Agenda items included…
A Game of Chance Raffle Permit for Disabled American Veterans.
An Electric, Heating and Plumbing license renewal for Ryan Mechanical, Inc., Wrigley Mechanical, Inc. and Keith’s Air Conditioning, Redlinger Bros. Plumbing & Heating Co., Moorhead Electric, Inc., Peterson Mechanical, Inc., John’s Refrigeration Electric Inc., Overn Electric LLC, Grotberg Electric Inc., Grotberg Electric Inc. dba Triten Mechanical, JR’s Plumbing & Heating Inc., SA Mechanical, Pederson Electric, Dakota Electric Construction Co., Bakkegard & Schell Inc., Sheyenne Mechanical LLC, Magnum Electric, Inc.
A House Movers renewal to Carrington House Moving, Inc. and Liechty Homes Inc.
and all license renews received through March 31, 2013
Public Forum: No one spoke
Resolutions
A Public Hearing was held to Determine Sufficiency of Protest for Paving Improvement District No. 102. No written protests were received.
Follow the hearing commissioners approved a Resolution to Determine Sufficiency of Protest for Paving Improvement District No. 102.
Then, another Public Hearing was to Determine Sufficiency of Protest for Paving Improvement District No. 103. Over 67% filed a written protest.
Mayor Werkhoven suggested a public meeting for further information.
Following the hearing, the city commission amended a Resolution to Determine Sufficiency of Protest for Paving Improvement District No. 103.
One area includes Prairie View, and the other Highland Park.
Commissioners approved for the Prairie View addition.
Commissioners then approved a Resolution accepting the bid and awarding a contract to Border States Paving in the amount of $431,623.09 for three ER sites and Safe Routes to School, Paving Improvement District No. 97.
New Business
The City Commission awarded the quote to Pine Country Nursery for Hyrdo-seeding 32 properties in the flood protection buyout in the amount of $38,536.65.
Trio Environmental Consulting was unable to make the meeting from Fargo, to discuss contract for police department fire range clean-up.
Chief Thompson said four companies bid, with three not able to perform the work until next fall. He suggested the bid be awarded in the amount of $89,600.
Commissioner approved.
Discussion concerned the 2013 Emergency Flood Plan.
Chad Peterson from KLJ said significant updates have been made for 2013.
Those include storm sewer plug improvements.
Another area includes near VCSU, where buyouts have occurred, and can now have clay dikes, instead of HESCO barrier protection.
Other changes include noting specific elevations of flood protection.
The commissioners asked questions about the AMI system electrical meter telemetry.
Superintendent Stan Hansen explained the electrical load handling, saying the new telemetry will go from analog to digital. He said any radio frequency radiation is minimal and not harmful. Security/privacy issues were brought up by Commissioner Luke, as to hackers knowing when usage was low, indicating when the property owner was away.
The City Commission decided to hold a public meeting on the issues.
City Commissioner Nielson moved to get a quote from Cooper Power.
The Commission voted to approve.
City Updates & Commission Comments
Fire Chief Retterath said the outdoor warning sirens upgrades are nearly completed and should be ready by spring.
He noted that the Sheyenne River has open water, and urges residents to use caution.
Commissioner Luke said the City Water Plant has received a certificate of compliance.
She said the library board is in the process of interviews.
Mayor Werkhoven noted the Hockey Jamboree in Valley City, that was successful, which brought dollars into Valley City and the utilization of tax dollars.
The meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 68 followed by replays.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Bismarck police are investigating an incident involving a masked man hiding in trees at an elementary school playground during a noon-hour recess.
Authorities say the man dressed in black and wearing a red ski mask fled on foot Friday after being approached by a school official, scaling a chain-link fence to get away.
Centennial Elementary School Principal Tyler Hanson says parents are being notified about the incident.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – Formal charges have been filed against a Michigan man accused of stabbing to death his roommate at an oil field crew camp in western North Dakota.
Court documents show that 31-year-old Ryan Anderson is charged with attempted murder and murder. They do not list an attorney for him or a hometown.
Anderson is accused of killing 32-year-old Christopher King after an alcohol-fueled dispute early Sunday. Authorities say Anderson drove King from the Capital Lodge crew camp between Ray and Tioga to a Tioga hospital, where King was pronounced dead and Anderson was arrested.
Sgt. Detective Caleb Fry with the Williams County Sheriff’s Office tells The Forum newspaper that King was stabbed four times with a hunting knife – twice in the chest and twice in the abdomen.
TIOGA, N.D. (AP) – Authorities say an alcohol-fueled dispute between roommates at an oil field crew camp in western North Dakota led to a fatal stabbing. Thirty-two-year-old Christopher King was stabbed to death early Sunday. Authorities arrested a 31-year-old man who drove King to a Tioga hospital, where King was pronounced dead.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A Washington state man who was arrested after a fight at an oilfield man camp has been sentenced on an illegal weapons charge.
Forty-seven-year-old Victor Fields, of Pasco, Wash., pleaded guilty in December to possession of firearm and ammunition by a person convicted of domestic violence.
Authorities say Fields was in possession of a loaded .357 pistol during the September 2011 altercation at the Knife River man camp near Williston.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland sentenced Fields to one year and nine months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota lawmakers are considering even more stringent abortion laws, drawing criticism from a group of doctors.
The so-called personhood measures would ban abortions by defining human life as beginning with conception.
Doctor Stephanie Dahl, a Fargo infertility specialist, said Monday the measures could also ban in vitro fertilization and force doctors to leave the state.
The Senate already passed the measures. The House is expected to consider them this week. One would make the proposal a state law. The other would add it to the state constitution.
Karla Rose Hanson, the organizer of the group opposing the personhood bills, says they’re “even more extreme” than two other measures headed to the governor’s desk. One of those bills bans abortion as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Senate is slated to hear testimony today on a package of gun-rights measures already approved by the House.
The House measures include allowing a concealed-carry permit holder to pack a gun at public gatherings, schools and churches if officials in those places allow it and notify law enforcement. Another measure allows people to have a gun in public during a declared state of emergency. That measure gives gun owners the right to sue if the government attempts to confiscate weapons or ammunition during the emergency.
The measure also would allow the sale of firearms and ammunition during a declared emergency.
The Senate has set aside has set aside one of the biggest meeting rooms at the Capitol for the hearings.
WASHINGTON (AP) – North Dakota will receive a $1.2 million federal grant to continue efforts to turn around the state’s lowest achieving schools.
North Dakota is one of six states that will get funds for a third year of implementing a School Improvement Grant program.
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says it’s hard work to turn around the lowest performing schools. But he says the grants will help some of those schools provide a better education for students who need it most.
The grants are awarded to state education agencies, which then make subgrants to local schools that demonstrate the greatest need and the strongest commitment to raising student achievement.
MARTELL, Neb. (AP) – Now that a recent environmental report has cleared the way for a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, a diverse band of activists is mustering a new effort to kill the project. The opponents hope to make a big showing at a public hearing on the pipeline in Nebraska this spring. They say they are also appealing to new Secretary of State John Kerry to recommend that federal approval be denied.
The activists include both veteran environmentalists and conservative ranchers angry about intrusions on their property.
The pipeline would transport 800,000 barrels of oil per day from the tar sands in Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast. It would cross South Dakota, and operator TransCanada says it would include crude from Montana and North Dakota’s Bakken formation.
MAPLETON, N.D. (AP) – A Wild Card 2 ticket sold in the southeastern North Dakota town of Mapleton is a jackpot winner.
North Dakota lottery officials say the ticket matched all five white balls and the Wild Card in Saturday’s drawing to win the $240,000 jackpot. It is the first Wild Card 2 jackpot won in North Dakota since August 2011.
The winning numbers are 4, 17, 19, 31 and 32, and the Wild Card is the Queen of Spades.
Wild Card 2 is played in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Idaho. The jackpot goes to $200,000 for the next drawing, on Wednesday.
Other lottery winners in Saturday drawings in North Dakota were a 2by2 ticket sold in Minot that won the $22,000 jackpot and a ticket sold in Manvel that won $10,000 in the Powerball.
In sports…
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Hunters killed about 34,500 deer during last year’s gun hunting season in North Dakota.
The state Game and Fish Department says hunter success was 63 percent – up from an all-time low of 51 percent in 2011. However, it was still below the long-term average of 70 percent.
The department is in the process of determining the number of licenses that will be made available for this year’s hunting season. The topic will be discussed at Game and Fish public advisory board meetings scheduled for the week of April 15.
Only about 65,000 licenses were made available last year – 40 percent fewer than the previous year. The drop was in response to a reduced deer population due to three straight harsh winters beginning in 2008.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – The University of North Dakota men’s basketball team’s first-round game in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament has been delayed by weather.
UND was to play at Northern Iowa on Tuesday night. The game has been moved to Wednesday night due to a winter storm.
UND says blizzard conditions in eastern North Dakota and parts of Minnesota on Monday made it impossible for the team to travel to Cedar Falls, Iowa.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota State men’s basketball team missed out on the NCAA tournament and also the National Invitational Tournament, but the Bison are still getting some postseason action.
NDSU will play in the 16-team College Basketball Invitational for a second straight season. The Bison (24-9) play at Western Michigan (20-12) in the first round on Wednesday.
NDSU lost to South Dakota State in the championship game of the Summit League Tournament, falling one win short of reaching the NCAA tournament.
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – Mike Conley scored 20 points last night as the Memphis Grizzlies topped the Minnesota Timberwolves 92-77. Marc Gasol added 16 points and Jerryd Bayless had 15 for the Grizzlies, who snapped a two-game skid. Alexey Shved led the Timberwolves with 12 points.
BOSTON (AP) – The Miami Heat now own the second-longest winning streak in NBA history, picking up their 23rd consecutive victory with a 105-103 comeback at Boston. The Heat trailed by 13 with eight minutes left before closing on a 22-7 run. LeBron James scored a team-high 37 points, including the tiebreaking jumper with 10.5 seconds left.
Final Indiana 111 Cleveland 90
Final Philadelphia 101 Portland 100
Final Charlotte 119 Washington 114
Final Brooklyn 119 Detroit 82
Final Dallas 127 Atlanta 113
Final OT Denver 119 Chicago 118
Final Golden State 93 New Orleans 72
Final Phoenix 99 L-A Lakers 76
Final New York 90 Utah 83
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) – Charlie Coyle and Matt Cullen scored in the third period last night to lead the Minnesota Wild to a 3-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks. Jonas Brodin also had a goal for the Wild, who moved two points ahead of Vancouver for the division lead. Niklas Backstrom stopped 35 shots for Minnesota.
Final 2OT N-Y Rangers 2 Carolina 1 (SO N.Y. Rangers 2-0)
Final Tampa Bay 4 Philadelphia 2
Final Dallas 4 Calgary 3
Final Chicago 5 Colorado 2
Final Anaheim 5 San Jose 3
Final Los Angeles 4 Phoenix 0
COLLEGE MENS BASKETBALL TOP 25…
UNDATED (AP) – Gonzaga (gahn-ZA’-guh) winds up on top in the final Associated Press top-25 men’s basketball poll. The Bulldogs hauled in 45 of 65 first place votes, while second-ranked Louisville claimed the other 20. Rounding out the top five are Kansas, Indiana and Miami.
NBA…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – There’s a chance Andrew Bynum will never play for the Philadelphia 76ers after the 25-year-old center undergoes season-ending arthroscopic surgery on both knees Tuesday.
Bynum hasn’t played since being acquired by the Sixers from the Los Angeles Lakers after last season. He was coming off his best NBA season, averaging career highs with 18.7 points and 11.8 rebounds while making his first All-Star team.
NFL…
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) – The Minnesota Vikings have signed Pro Bowl fullback Jerome Felton. The two sides agreed on a three-year deal worth as much as $7.5 million with a $2 million signing bonus. Felton helped pave the way for Adrian Peterson’s 2,097 yards rushing last season.
PHOENIX (AP) – The NFL will not be adding teams to the playoffs this season, but still is discussing an expanded postseason. Commissioner Roger Goodell (guh-DEHL’) says that the league’s competition committee has looked into adding teams to the playoffs, and the topic will be discussed at this week’s owners meetings. However, he says any adds won’t happen this year.
OBIT-DAVIS
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) – Former Oklahoma quarterback Steve Davis was one of two people killed when a small aircraft smashed into a house in South Bend, Ind. on Sunday. He started every game of Barry Switzer’s first three seasons as head coach at Oklahoma, piling up a 32-1-1 record with two national championships. Davis’ school records for consecutive starts and career victories were surpassed only last season by Landry Jones, who started every game the past three seasons plus most of 2009.
Davis was 60.
In world and national news…
BOSTON (AP) – Some schools in upstate New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut are closed and the morning commute is an icy, slippery mess, just one day before the official start of spring. A blast of winter is blowing through the Northeast and could continue into tonight for northern areas.
VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis says a little bit of tenderness can “open up a horizon of hope.” He urged those gathered for his installation Mass today to protect the environment, the weakest and the poorest — advancing a clear focus of his priorities as leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – The European Union’s law enforcement agency says a new breed of criminal is cashing in on the ongoing economic crisis and the increasingly interconnected world. Europol’s annual report on organized crime says criminals are broadening counterfeiting operations to include not just cheap knock-offs of high end items but also everyday things like food and medical products. Europol says 3,600 organized crime gangs are operating in Europe.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is making an important speech on immigration today to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. The potential 2016 presidential candidate plans to endorse a pathway to citizenship for the nation’s 11 million illegal immigrants — a significant move for a favorite of tea party Republicans who are sometimes hostile to such an approach.
UNDATED (AP) – A rigorous medical study says physical therapy can be just as good for a common knee injury — and cheaper. The study says therapy didn’t always help and some people wound up having surgery for the problem, called a torn meniscus. But the recovery of those who stuck with therapy mostly kept pace with surgery patients. The study is in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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