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TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S. NORTHWEST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 60S. NORTH WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S.
NORTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.THURSDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 70. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO
15 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND
SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S. CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.
.FRIDAY…RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY AND SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS.
HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 60 PERCENT.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND
SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 40S. CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE MID
50S. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S.
.COLUMBUS DAY…PARTLY SUNNY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS
POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SLEET IN THE MORNING…THEN SLIGHT CHANCE OF
RAIN SHOWERS IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 50S. CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 20 PERCENT.
A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY. EXPECT WINDY CONDITIONS WITH PERIODS OF MODERATE TO LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE…LOCALLY HIGHER.
Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Oct 8, 2013) – Interstate Enginering reports, starting Wednesday (Oct 9, 2013) the intersection of 17th Street SE (County Road 39) and 19th Avenue SE will be partially closed as part of the Jamestown sanitary sewer project. 17th Street SE (County Road 39) will be reduced to one lane of traffic during working hours. Flaggers will also be present.
Motorists will still be able to access to the City of Jamestown Baling Facility during this time.
At this time, this partial closure is expected to be in place for up to three days. Updates will be posted online at jamestownsewerproject.com.
Questions on the Jamestown sanitary sewer project can be directed to Darrell Hournbuckle with Interstate Engineering at (701) 252-0234.
Jamestown, N.D. (KCSi-T.V. News Oct 8, 2013) – Gov. Jack Dalrymple Tuesday celebrated the completion of the Lutheran Social Services Legacy Center in Jamestown. The residential and commercial center, a major renovation of the former Jamestown Hospital, includes rental housing for adults of various income levels, a child care center, a wellness center and senior citizen services.
The grand opening of Lutheran Social Services Legacy Center was held at the center’s front lobby.
Lutheran Social Services provided tours of the center at 1pm
Governor Jack Dalrymple says, “This project is a great example of what can be accomplished by working together to meet the needs of our growing communities and enhance our quality of life. Lutheran Social Services has done an outstanding job transforming this landmark building to provide a creative housing solution and to support other public services that strengthen communities.”
The Lutheran Social Services Legacy Center includes 20 low-income apartments for residents 62 years of age or older and 31 apartments without income restrictions for residents 55 or older. The building also houses a privately owned child care center, a community wellness center and is home to the James River Senior Center. From the renovated hospital, the James River Senior Center offers a regional meal program and transportation program for seniors. The Legacy Center is expected to draw other commercial businesses as well.
The North Dakota Department of Commerce awarded Lutheran Social Services a $220,000 HOME program grant to assist in the development of the project’s low-income housing. The Bank of North Dakota and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development also assisted in the project’s development.
Director of Lutheran Social Services Housing, Jessica Thomasson, says “Lutheran Social Services Housing is honored to be able to launch its new brand of apartments for adults 55 and over through redevelopment of this beautiful former hospital building in Jamestown. We are now working to replicate this model in other North Dakota communities, beginning with our current renovation of Williston’s historic high school.” By attracting additional partners, such as local senior centers, to share these new homes with us, Lutheran Social Services is creating a new kind of community anchor for older adults and their families.”
Officials from Roers, Inc. joined Lutheran Social Services in sponsoring the grand opening event. Roers served as a co-leader in the Legacy Center project since its inception in 2010. The firm served as a development and architectural partner in the renovation and led the construction process. Joining Dalrymple for the center’s dedication included Lutheran Social
Services of North Dakota CEO Robert Sanderson, Jamestown Mayor Katie Andersen, Jessica Thomasson, director of Lutheran Social Services Housing, Larry Nygard of Roers and Joel Manske of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
North Dakota is developing new housing at a faster rate than any other state in the nation. North Dakota added 7,388 new housing units last year, the nation’s strongest growth rate at 2.3 percent, according to estimates compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The state facilitates the development of low-and moderate-income housing in several ways, including the Housing Incentive Fund. Capitalized with$15.4 million in state funds and contributions from state taxpayers, the HIF provides developers of affordable rental housing with low-cost financing. The individuals, businesses and financial institutions that help to further build this fund receive a dollar-for-dollar state income tax credit.
During the last biennium, the HIF program supported the development of 669 affordable housing units in western North Dakota and other areas of the state. Fully capitalized, the program is projected to facilitate the development of about another 1,000 affordable housing units in 2013 and 2014.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Farmers and ranchers in southwestern North Dakota are evaluating crop and animal losses in the wake of a weekend storm that dropped up to 1 1/2 feet of snow.
Cattle losses are expected to be extreme in the region and in western South Dakota, where even more snow fell. Other livestock also were affected. Elgin area rancher Lynn Mutschelknaus tells The Bismarck Tribune that about 350 of the family’s sheep were trampled by cows trying to return home.
New Salem area farmer Wayne Braun says his sunflowers took a big hit – with a loss of as much as 80 percent.
Morton County Extension Agent Jackie Buckley says corn is a sturdier crop and shouldn’t be as hard hit. She also says soybeans should be OK.
ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) – The last of eight people charged in a violent drug ring on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in the Dakotas has been sentenced to federal prison.
The American News reports 22-year-old Andrew Kills Crow was sentenced to 51 months, or a little more than four years behind bars on counts of assault with dangerous weapons. Kills Crow pleaded guilty in return for prosecutors dropping drug and kidnapping counts.
U.S. District Judge Charles Kornmann said the plea deal made him “very uncomfortable.” But defense attorney Scott Kuck and prosecutor Kathryn Rich said they agreed that Kills Crow was the least culpable of those involved in the Mobridge, S.D.-based ring.
Sentences for the seven other suspects ranged from about three years in prison to nearly 18 years for ringleader Marco Uribe.
STANTON, N.D. (AP) – Prosecutors have filed new charges against a man whose murder conspiracy conviction was overturned by the North Dakota Supreme Court.
The Bismarck Tribune reports 26-year-old Cody Borner faces seven felony charges, including terrorizing, aggravated assault and reckless endangerment.
A jury in June 2012 convicted Borner, of Stanton, and Richard Whitman, of Hazen, of conspiracy to commit murder in the January 2012 shooting death in Beulah of Mike Padilla, of Billings, Mont. Padilla’s brother, Timothy, was wounded in the shooting that authorities say resulted from a drug-fueled dispute.
Supreme Court justices in a split decision in August reversed Borner’s conviction, ruling that language used in charging documents was improper. The ruling gave prosecutors authority to charge Borner with another crime. The high court has not ruled in Whitman’s case.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A couple of dozen North Dakota Air National Guard members in Afghanistan are scheduled to return home Tuesday night.
The guard says more than 20 of nearly 30 deployed to the country since March are scheduled on a flight to Fargo.
The Fargo-based 119th Security Forces Squadron members have been providing a variety of security missions at Bagram Airfield.
Seven additional members of the squadron are expected home in a couple of weeks.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Prosecutors in Fargo want the state Supreme Court to overturn a judge’s decision to dismiss some drug dog sniffing cases.
District Court Judge Wickham Corwin ruled in May that authorities couldn’t use evidence against 19-year-old Matthew Nguyen because police used a dog to smell for drugs allegedly coming from under his apartment door.
Corwin cited a U.S. Supreme Court opinion stating it was a search that required a warrant because the renter shares the hallway with others.
In his appeal brief, Cass County prosecutor Gary Euren argued the U.S. Supreme Court case doesn’t apply to Nguyen’s case. Defense attorney Mark Friese asked the high court to uphold Corwin’s decision, arguing it was similar.
Some other cases might be affected by the state Supreme Court’s ruling.
DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) – A state district judge has sided with Dickinson teachers in their contract dispute with the school board, but the battle might not be over.
that Judge William Herauf on Monday ruled that contracts imposed for this year won’t be effective for two years.
The dispute landed in court after the two sides couldn’t agree on terms for a two-year contract. The school board unilaterally issued two-year contracts in July after a state fact-finding commission sided with the board’s final offer. The Dickinson Education Association sued on behalf of teachers over the two-year deal.
Association attorney Michael Geiermann says Herauf’s ruling is a victory. School board attorney Rachel Ann Bruner-Kaufman says the board will decide whether to appeal to the North Dakota Supreme Court.
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama says he told House Speaker John Boehner (BAY’-nur) he’s willing to negotiate with Republicans on their priorities, but not under the threat of “economic chaos.” Obama spoke to reporters at the White House in the midst of the eighth day of a partial government shutdown and a few hours after calling Boehner. Obama says he urged Boehner to hold a vote immediately to reopen the government.
NEW YORK (AP) – As the government moves closer to a default on its debt, stocks are falling again. Investors are worried that the government won’t be able to pay its bills, including interest on its debt, as early as next week if Congress doesn’t raise the nation’s borrowing limit.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – A second team of chemical weapons experts is headed to Syria, to expand an effort to rid that country of its poison gas stockpile. The announcement came Tuesday from the chief of the global chemical weapons watchdog agency. He told the group’s executive council, meeting in the Netherlands, that Syria’s initial cooperation with the first team of inspectors was a “constructive beginning.”
DETROIT (AP) – An 89-year-old man has pleaded guilty in Detroit to charges that he served as a drug mule in an effort to distribute more than 1,400 pounds of cocaine. Leo told a judge that he had never before committed a crime, and that he worked for a drug organization because he needed the money. But prosecutors say they have evidence that he was carrying drugs from the West Coast back in 2000. Still, they’re showing mercy by recommending a five-year prison sentence because of Sharp’s age and his service in World War II.
NEW YORK (AP) – Police in New York City say they’ve used DNA analysis to identify the mother of a dead child who’d been known only as Baby Hope. They say they received a tip after a publicity push over the summer — and the tip led to the woman, who they say is cooperating. Investigators are trying to determine the circumstances of the girl’s death. Her remains were found in 1991 inside a picnic cooler along the Henry Hudson Parkway.
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