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Bismarck (CSi) The Jamestown High School Number One team won the state LifeSmarts championship and will be representing North Dakota in the national competition.
The Jamestown High School’s Number Two team was second, Kindred High School took third.
The Jamestown high school students will represent the state in the national championship, which will to be held April 26-29, 2014 in Orlando, Florida.
The State Champion team members include: Captain, Kelsey Becker, Andrew Briedenbach, Zach Fossen, Alex Igl and Jessica Vandal.
Jamestown High School team coach Marchel Krieger says “LifeSmarts is a very valuable program that I wish more schools could take part in and experience. We are very proud to have the chance to represent North Dakota at the national competition.”
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corportation (JSDC) Board of Directors this week, approved a Flex pace interest buy down loan for Buchanan Ag.
On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2 JSDC’s Business Development Coordinator, DeAnn Brunner said, the company, which started operations in October of 2012, is expanding its fertilizer and seed operation.
The Flex pace interest buy down reduces the interest of a bank loan and is repaid to the JSDC at the end of the regular loan.
The Jamestown City Council and Stutsman County Commission will look at the acquisition to approved or disapprove.
The Board also approved acquiring 325 acres of land adjacent to the Spiritwood, SEPA industrial park. The land has a purchase price of $6,000 per acre for a total investment of nearly $2 million.
The plan calls for constructing a railroad spur line into the new property from the SEPA rail loop to be constructed this summer.
The purchase would be funded with 90 percent city sales tax funds and 10 percent Stutsman County property tax revenues.
The purchase will come under consideration by the Jamestown City Council and Stutsman County Commission.
VALLEY CITY, N.D. (AP) – Portable heaters are being blamed for a Valley City house fire that led to a close call for a mother and two children and injured a firefighter.
Fire Chief Gary Retterath says two portable heaters were placed too close to a bed in the home’s basement, igniting the Jan. 28 blaze.
Linda Schonert and her children escaped the burning house by jumping from a second-floor bedroom window. They suffered scratches on their legs when they hit a porch roof and then fell to the ground.
One firefighter suffered smoke inhalation as he was turning off the natural gas connection to the house.
The home was destroyed.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A businessman and community leader who founded what is now the Greater North Dakota Chamber is the 40th recipient of the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award, the state’s highest honor.
Gov. Jack Dalrymple announced Wednesday that the award will be presented to the family of Herman Stern, who died in 1980.
Stern came to North Dakota from Germany when he was 16 years old to work at Straus Clothing in Casselton, which was established by his cousin, Morris Strauss. Stern would become manager of the Strauss store in Valley City, where he remained 70 years.
In 1924, Stern founded the Greater North Dakota Association, now known as the GNDC, and served as the organization’s first president. He also was pivotal in starting the North Dakota Winter Show in Valley City.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A woman charged in North Dakota with killing her husband by means of drugs and asphyxiation will remain jailed on $500,000 bond.
Sixty-year-old Sherry Midstokke, of Finley, is charged in East Central District Court with Class AA felony murder. She’s accused of killing 66-year-old Lyle Midstokke.
Midstokke was in handcuffs and leg shackles for her first court appearance Wednesday in Fargo. She told Judge Steven Marquart she is not a flight risk or danger to the community and did not agree with the high bail.
Prosecutors want a mental health evaluation before further discussion on bail. A status conference was set for Feb. 26.
Midstokke did not have a lawyer at Wednesday’s hearing but was expected to hire Fargo attorney Bruce Quick. Quick planned to meet with her later Wednesday.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – BNSF plans to invest $5 billion in its railroad this year, including $900 million to expand capacity in the Northern Plains where crude oil shipments are surging.
The railroad said Tuesday its 2014 spending plan is roughly $1 billion higher than last year. BNSF says it’s responding to significant volume growth.
Some projects should help alleviate congestion near the booming Bakken oil field in North Dakota and Montana. Last week, the National Association of Railroad Passengers complained to officials that the growth in oil shipments was disrupting Amtrak passenger service.
In addition to expanding capacity, BNSF plans to spend $2.3 billion maintaining its network and $1.6 billion on locomotives and equipment.
BNSF is based in Fort Worth, Texas, but it is owned by Omaha, Neb., based conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The legislative fight is over. But North Dakota lawmakers say their work on the farm bill is hardly done.
The state’s congressional delegation says it will quickly pivot to ensuring the massive new bill does what it says it will do and works best for the state. Among the key tasks going forward: maintaining oversight of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, ensuring that new conservation provisions and other elements of the bill are put in place as planned and pressing federal officials to give emergency relief to ranchers.
The Senate approved the 5-year, $1 billion-a-year farm bill on Tuesday less than a week after the House did the same. President Barack Obama says he plans to sign the bill on Friday in Michigan.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Tax Department records show that the state is losing nearly $1 million monthly in natural gas tax revenue because about a third of it is being burned as a byproduct of oil production.
State data show that about half of more than 10,000 producing wells in western North Dakota’s oil patch flared natural gas in November.
Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger (RAH’-shun-bur-gur) says oil and gas tax collections for November were $252 million, with natural gas collections representing just $2 million.
Oil producers can flare natural gas for a year without paying taxes or royalties on it. Companies can then ask for an extension.
Rauschenberger says only one well that had been flaring for more than a year was subjected to the tax in November.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger has formally launched his campaign for the Republican Party’s nomination to run for the position.
Rauschenberger was deputy tax commissioner when Gov. Jack Dalrymple late last year appointed him to serve the final year of then-Commissioner Cory Fong’s term. Fong resigned at the end of the year to work for a Bismarck-based advertising agency.
Fargo attorney Jason Astrup earlier this week said he will seek the Democratic endorsement for tax commissioner.
In sports…
VALLEY CITY (VCSU) – Valley City State University head football coach Dennis McCulloch announces the addition of 22 student-athletes who have signed letters of intent to attend VCSU and play football for the Vikings this fall.
McCulloch says, “We are extremely excited about this group of incoming student-athletes. We have a good mix of playmakers on both offense and defense joining our program. These young men have proven themselves at the high school level, and we’re excited to see them excel at the collegiate level over the next four years, both in the classroom and on the field.”
The list of incoming freshmen includes 10 standout student-athletes from North Dakota, six from Minnesota, one from South Dakota, three from Colorado, and one from Alaska. The Vikings have also announced the addition of transfer Beau Winchester from Mililani, Hawaii.
The incoming group joins five transfers who are already on campus and will make up the bulk of this year’s recruiting class. VCSU coaches are still out recruiting to round out the 2014 class.
Incoming Freshmen Includes
Marc Wagner: TE, 6-4, 210 lbs, Jamestown, N.D.
2013: All WDA
Valley City native Dustin Lindgren signed his Letter of Intent last week to attend VCSU. The fullback excelled for the Hi-Liners last season, racking up 926 rushing yards and nine touchdowns. He played for VCHS head coach Scott Roehrich, who is a VCSU football alum.
Twin brothers Demetrius and Darius Graves, from Colorado Springs, Colo., are committed to VCSU after finishing their careers at Harrison High School where they were coached by VCSU alum Al Melo. Austin Richter, a defensive back from Walker, Minn., also has a VCSU connection as his father Pat played at VCSU.
The current list is available on line at CsiNewsNow.com
Also, visit the VCSU football page at vikings.vcsu.edu
Under the direction of coach McCulloch, VCSU went 5-5 last season and earned a share of the North Star Athletic Association title with a 3-1 conference record. The Vikings have won three straight conference titles.
Starting this fall, the North Star Athletic Association expands to seven teams in football. Dickinson State and Waldorf College will join the five founding members: VCSU, University of Jamestown, Dakota State University, Mayville State University and Presentation College. The Vikings open the 2014 season at home against University of Jamestown on Aug. 28.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Chiefs have signed Canadian Football League star Weston Dressler to a futures contract, hoping he can bolster a relatively weak wide receiver corps.
The 28-year-old Dressler has spent the past six years in the CFL, where he caught 442 passes for 6,531 yards and 43 touchdowns for the Saskatchewan Roughriders. He caught 70 passes for more than 1,000 yards and nine TDs in helping the Roughriders win the Grey Cup.
The Chiefs have not announced the signing, which appeared on the NFL’s transaction report.
Dressler was a standout at North Dakota but never generated much interest from the NFL. He is listed at 5-foot-7, 179 pounds.
The Chiefs could be looking at Dressler to replace wide receiver Dexter McCluster, who is due to become a free agent.
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) – A new study estimates that fewer than 2 million people have newly enrolled in Medicaid as a result of President Barack Obama’s health care law. The figures released by the market-analysis firm Avalere Health are well below a statistic of 6 million people often cited by administration officials. The administration’s number also includes people renewing their coverage. Medicaid is a safety-net health program for low-income people. About half the states have accepted a program expansion in the health law.
NEW YORK (AP) – The medical examiner’s office in New York says more tests will be needed to determine what killed actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. Meanwhile, sources familiar with the investigation say four people have been taken into custody on drug charges, after police investigating the actor’s death executed search warrants at New York apartments. There had been a tip that the suspects may have supplied Hoffman with drugs. He was found dead Sunday in his apartment, with a needle in his arm.
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israeli planners have given final approval for more than 500 apartments in Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem — part of the area that the Palestinians want to make their capital. Palestinian officials say the decision will undermine the fragile negotiations with Israel, brokered by the United States, aimed at setting up a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (APP) – Arraignment has been postponed for a California educator who is charged with sexual abuse of two former students. The case against Andrea Cardosa was filed after a woman who says she was a victim of the abuse posted a YouTube video of her accusations. Another woman then came forward and said she’d also been abused. Wednesday’s expected court proceeding has been rescheduled for next month.
LAS VEGAS (AP) – A court hearing in an arson case Wednesday in Las Vegas has attracted an angry group of animal rights activists. They cursed at a pet shop owner who is facing multiple charges that she tried to burn her store last week, with 27 puppies inside. Firefighters were able to rescue the dogs. The store owner (Eun Hye Lee) is being allowed to remain free on bond. She’s had to surrender her Korean passport.
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