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REST OF TODAY…CLOUDY. SCATTERED RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS…THEN
SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS…AREAS OF DRIZZLE AND LIGHT FREEZING
DRIZZLE IN THE AFTERNOON. LITTLE OR NO NEW SNOW
ACCUMULATION IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. AREAS OF FOG THROUGH THE DAY IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA. HIGHS IN
THE MID 30S. NORTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
40 PERCENT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, A 70 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA.
.TONIGHT…CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW SHOWERS IN THE
EVENING. LOWS IN THE LOWER 20S. NORTH WINDS AROUND 15 MPH.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S. NORTHWEST WINDS
5 TO 15 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 15 TO 20. WEST WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 40S. SOUTH WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 20S.
HIGHS IN THE MID 40S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A
20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S. HIGHS
IN THE MID 40S.
.TUESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 40S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 30.
HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S.
. AREAS OF FREEZING DRIZZLE AND FOG WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MOST OF
WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA THIS MORNING. THE FREEZING
DRIZZLE IS MOST WIDESPREAD SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 94…BUT WILL
CONTINUE TO SPREAD NORTH THROUGH THE MORNING AS THE LIGHT SNOW
TAPERS OFF. USE CAUTION IF TRAVELING…AS ALREADY SLICK ROADS FROM
SNOW OVERNIGHT ARE EVEN MORE SLIPPERY FROM FREEZING DRIZZLE. DO
NOT USE CRUISE CONTROL DURING WINTER DRIVING CONDITIONS.
Jamestown (CSi) The Stutsman Rural Water District Board of Directors has awarded bids for upcoming projects.
An $1.8 million contract for a 600,000 gallon water tower in southwest Jamestown.
The tower will be constructed adjacent to Titan Machinery and carry the logos of Titan Machinery and Stutsman Rural Water District.
Construction is anticipated to start this spring.
Stutsman Rural Water District territory includes the area outside Jamestown city limits between the Buffalo Mall and Jamestown Regional Medical Center. Kaiser said growth is anticipated in this area.
The board also awarded a bid for water tanks at Great River Energy and at the Stutsman Rural Water treatment plant to Dakota Pump and Control of Fargo for $1.3 million. Also awarded was a contract for a pipeline between the treatment plant and the Spiritwood area to Kamphuis Pipeline of Grand Rapids, Mich., for $2.6 million, part of a system expansion to provide industrial water to users in Spiritwood Township.
The bids were opened for an expansion to the rural water system’s treatment plant near Spiritwood. The upgrade will increase the plant’s capacity from 400 gallons per minute to 2,000 gallons per minute.
The apparent low bidder for that project was John T. Jones of Fargo at $5.5 million or approximately $300,000 greater than engineers’ estimates.
The bids for the treatment plant upgrade will be reviewed by engineers before the bid is awarded.
Jamestown (CSi) Stutsman County Park’s Department will install an “honor box” at Parkhurst for camping fees, which will be set at $10 per day.
The Park Board approved plan, will allow individuals to take an envelope, place a camping fee inside and drop it into a secured box, in return for a tab or tag that shows the fee was paid.
A tab would be needed for each camping unit. If a camper has two cars associated with it, only the camper would need to display a tab.
The Park Board also authorized the hiring of two part-time workers for the summer, each working less than 20 hours a week. The Park Board had budgeted for the expense.
Update
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Kiwanis Club needs additional volunteers for its fourth Kids Against Hunger meal-packaging event Saturday, April 5, 2014 at the Buffalo Mall in Jamestown.
Kiwanis Club President, Janna Bergstedt says more than 400 volunteers are needed to help package meals, or about 200 for each shift. She says, the morning shift, is from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The afternoon shift, is from 1 to 3:30 p.m.
She points out that through donation there has been $40,000 worth of supplies purchased, and so more volunteers, are need than helped out last year.
Kids Against Hunger packages and sends meals consisting of vegetables, vitamins, rice and soy for starving children in the U.S. and abroad. Meal recipients need only to add water and boil the dried ingredients for 20 minutes. Meals are distributed internationally as well as locally.
For more information about the Jamestown’s Kids Against Hunger event, to donate to the cause or to volunteer, contact the Buffalo Mall at 251-2237, or email
JamestownKiwanis@gmail.com or visit the Facebook page, www.Face book.com/JamestownKiwanis.
VALLEY CITY, N.D. (AP) – Valley City is moving forward with its plans for permanent flood protection for the city.
The City Commission on Tuesday approved the plan for the project’s first phase. It includes a combination of clay dikes and flood walls in the Valley City State University area. Future phases would likely protect the majority of homes in the city.
Mayor Bob Werkhoven says the first phase of construction is estimated to cost about $12 million. City officials expect to talk with the State Water Commission in the coming weeks to try and secure funding for the project.
Werkhoven says the city has bought out more than 40 homes already in flood-prone areas where permanent protection will go. He said there are still more homes the city plans to buy in the future.
WAHPETON, N.D. (AP) – The Richland County sheriff says a 14-year veteran of the department has been demoted for mishandling the case of a missing juvenile.
Sheriff Larry Leshovskysays Jerry Arneson failed to follow procedure on the case and was asked to voluntarily resign his badge.
Leshovsky says Arneson was offered a position as a corrections officer and accepted that position.
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) – A Devils Lake woman who stole more than a quarter of a million dollars from her employer has been sentenced to five years in prison.
65-year-old Sonya Dahlen pleaded guilty Tuesday to felony theft and was sentenced to prison and restitution.
Ramsey County State’s Attorney Lonnie Olson says Dahlen took the money from a Devils Lake-based hotel company between January 2011 and April 2013. He says she told authorities that she used the money for gambling.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Police say $200 worth of liquor was stolen from the Lewis and Clark Riverboat.
Authorities say someone broke a $200 window and entered the boat while it was docked between 10 p.m. Saturday and 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Police say responding officers did not find anyone inside the boat. Employees reported that the liquor was missing.
The boat belongs to the Fort Abraham Lincoln Foundation.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – A research and consulting firm estimates that oil production in North Dakota and Montana will average 1.1 million barrels per day this year.
Wood Mackenzie anticipates that oil production in the North Dakota and Montana sections of the Bakken and Three Forks formations will grow to 1.7 million barrels per day in 2020.
The company announced its estimates on Wednesday.
Wood Mackenzie projects that $15 billion will be spent on drilling and completion of wells by Bakken players in 2014.
The company says there is close to $118 billion in remaining value in the American portions of the Bakken and Three Forks formations, which also stretch into Canada’s Saskatchewan and Manitoba provinces.
The North Dakota Petroleum Council expects that state alone to hit 1 million barrels per day in June.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Officials with the North Dakota state court system say they are running out of space.
Administrators say the system will likely need twice as much space as it currently has in Bismarck to meet anticipated needs in the next decade.
State court administrator Sally Holewa says a study shows that the judicial branch needs to add nearly 25,000 square feet of space.
The study was commissioned by the judicial branch and analyzed the needs of the Supreme Court, the clerk of the Supreme Court, the state Board of Law Examiners, the law library, central legal services, and the office of the state court administrator.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Industrial Commission has received 25 requests seeking a total of more than $5 million from the state’s new Outdoor Heritage Fund.
The Legislature established the fund last year, to restore land affected by energy production and to develop such things as fish and wildlife habitat and outdoor recreation areas. It will receive up to $15 million annually from oil and gas taxes.
The Industrial Commission in January approved $5.8 million in grants for 17 projects, after reviewing 74 applications. The application deadline for the second round of grants was Tuesday.
The applications will be reviewed in mid-May by the fund’s advisory board, which will forward recommendations to the Industrial Commission for final approval at its May 27 meeting.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – A plan to move the Ward County juvenile detention center could be more costly than once thought.
County commissioners learned Tuesday that remodeling a space in the lowest level of the courthouse could cost about $1.8 million. The commissioners were expecting costs to be about $800,000.
An architect on the project said security measures are more costly than anticipated.
City officials want to move juvenile offenders housed in an eight-bed unit in the jail father away from adult inmates.
Commissioner Alan Walter said he wanted more information before the commission moved ahead with the relocation.
Walter said getting costs closer to $1 million would be acceptable.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota regulators have scheduled a public hearing later this month on a new plan to reduce the flaring of natural gas in the western oil fields. Officials with the Oil and Gas Division of the state Mineral Resources Department will hold the hearing April 22nd in Bismarck. They also are accepting written comments through the close of business on April 21st.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota regulators have scheduled a public hearing to discuss the proposed expansion of the Robinson Lake Gas Plant near New Town. The state’s Public Service Commission will host the April 10th meeting in Stanley. The plant sits in 23 acres and is owned by Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation. It was built in 2007.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The U.S. Forest Service plans to conduct nearly 20 prescribed burns within the next month on the Sheyenne National Grasslands in southeastern North Dakota.
Officials say fire is essential to maintaining healthy native grasses and prairie habitats. Between 4,000 and 5,000 acres will be burned on the Sheyenne Ranger District.
The burns will be conducted as weather conditions allow.
In sports..
By: Sam Knehans, Communications & Sports Information Intern
KANSAS CITY, Mo. –
Brady Anderson of Valley City State (N.D.) has been named the NAIA Baseball National Player of the Week and Jacob Butler of St. Francis (Ill.) has been selected as the National Pitcher of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. Anderson and Butler were chosen based on their performances from March 24 – 30 and were selected out of a pool of conference, independent and unaffiliated group winners.
Anderson, a native of Jamestown, N.D., hit .593 in six games last week (16-of-27), including four doubles, a triple and three home runs. His best performance came in the first of three Viking wins over in-state rival Dickinson State (N.D.) on March 5. In the 23-8 rout, Anderson hit for the cycle, finishing with four hits, five runs and eight RBIs. He followed that up with four more hits and five more RBIs in Valley City State’s 9-1 win on March 6. For the week, Anderson recorded eight extra-base hits, while scoring 11 runs and driving in 16.
Anderson is now batting .467 on the season and slugging .761. He has scored 20 runs, driven in 31 runs, and has 10 doubles, four triples and three home runs in 23 games. On the year, Anderson is among the NAIA leaders in triples (14th, 4), total bases (32nd, 70) and total runs batted in (36th, 31).
Butler, a senior from Channahon, Ill., struck out 18 of the 24 batters he faced in the Fighting Saints 8-0 rout of Calumet (Ind.) on March 29. He allowed just two hits in seven innings of work for the complete game shutout. The win was part of St. Francis’ 3-0 series sweep of Calumet in which the Fighting Saints outscored the Crimson Wave 36-3.
On the season, Butler ranks among the national leaders in strikeouts per nine innings (13th, 11.48) and total strikeouts (39th, 51).
For a complete listing of national statistical leaders, click here.
The next NAIA National Baseball Players of the Week will be announced April 8.
Player Nominees: Zane Dillon, Benedictine-Springfield (Ill.); Michael Durig, St. Andrews (N.C.); Joe Ruge, St. Francis (Ill.); Austin York, Taylor (Ind.); Ryan Sells, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho); Cade Gotta, San Diego Christian (Calif.); Jake Erichsen, Briar Cliff (Iowa); Enmanuel Frias, Tougaloo (Miss.); Joe Smith, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.); Bryan Arthur, British Columbia; Mike Ryan, West Virginia Tech; Aaron Marshall, Ottawa (Kan.); Yuliecer Arias, Point Park (Pa.); Sam Lind, Cumberland (Tenn.); Jose Ruiz, Oklahoma Wesleyan; Zach Close, AIB (Iowa); Carlos Rosario, Wiley (Texas); Ryan Moesley, Mid-America Christian (Okla.); Taylor Eads, Spring Hill (Ala.); Darryl Knight, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Justin Kalusa, Indiana Tech.
Pitcher Nominees: Curtis Sawchuk, Missouri Baptist; Dylan Griffin, Point (Ga.); Seth Eller, Mount Vernon Nazarene (Ohio); Gabriel Hemmer, San Diego Christian (Calif.); Tyler Brungardt, Midland (Neb.); John Alford, Tougaloo (Miss.); Tino Luna, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.); Conor Lillis-white, British Columbia; Zach Thomas, West Virginia Tech; Jake Horew, Point Park (Pa.); Bret DeRooy, Campbellsville (Ky.); Juan Berumen, Oklahoma Wesleyan; David Yancey, St. Ambrose (Iowa); Scott Petry, Mayville State (N.D.); Luke McDonough, Jarvis Christian (Texas); Robert Santana, Mid-America Christian (Okla.); Jack Howard, Spring Hill (Ala.); Corey Tufts, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Corey Sessions, Davenport (Mich.).
2014 Baseball Weekly Honors (Player, Pitcher):
Week 1 (March 18): Dylan Mayes, Park (Mo.); Kyle Kinman, Bellevue (Neb.)
Week 2 (March 25): Kirk Rocha, Tabor (Kan.); Jacob Webb, Tabor (Kan.)
Week 3 (April 1): Brady Anderson, Valley City State (N.D.); Jacob Butler, St. Francis (Ill.)
INTERLEAGUE
Final Texas 4 Philadelphia 3
AMERICAN LEAGUE
CHICAGO (AP) – Leury Garcia came home on a balk and a pair of wild pitches by Samuel Deduno to give the Chicago White Sox a 7-6 win over the Minnesota Twins yesterday. Chicago trailed 6-4 in the ninth before Garcia’s run-scoring single off Glen Perkins and Adam Eaton’s RBI grounder forced extra innings. Ronald Belisario pitched 1 1-3 hitless innings for the win.
Final Detroit 2 Kansas City 1, 10 Innings
Final Oakland 6 Cleveland 1 (first game)
Final Cleveland 6 Oakland 4 (second game)
Final Boston 6 Baltimore 2
Final Toronto 3 Tampa Bay 0
Final Houston 3 N-Y Yankees 1
Final Seattle 8 L.A. Angels 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final Atlanta 1 Milwaukee 0
Final Pittsburgh 4 Chi Cubs 3, 16 Innings
Final Colorado 6 Miami 5
Final Cincinnati 1 St. Louis 0
Final Washington 5 N-Y Mets 1
Final San Francisco 2 Arizona 0
Final L.A. Dodgers 5 San Diego 1
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Kevin Love had 24 points for the Minnesota Timberwolves as they dealt the Memphis Grizzlies a loss they could ill afford in a 102-88 victory last night. The Timberwolves are trying to play spoiler down the stretch of what has been a disappointing season. Marc Gasol had 18 points, seven rebounds and four assists for the Grizzlies.
Final Washington 118 Boston 92
Final New York 110 Brooklyn 81
Final Charlotte 123 Philadelphia 93
Final Cleveland 119 Orlando 98
Final Indiana 101 Detroit 94
Final Toronto 107 Houston 103
Final Chicago 105 Atlanta 92
Final Miami 96 Milwaukee 77
Final San Antonio 111 Golden State 90
Final Denver 137 New Orleans 107
Final L-A Clippers 112 Phoenix 108
Final Sacramento 107 L-A Lakers 102
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Final N-Y Islanders 2 Ottawa 1
Final Detroit 3 Boston 2
Final Anaheim 3 Edmonton 2
Final Los Angeles 4 Phoenix 0
WNIT…
BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) – The season has come to an end for the South Dakota State University women’s basketball team – one win away from the championship game of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament.
The University of Texas at El Paso beat SDSU 66-63 in the semifinals on Wednesday night in Texas to advance to Saturday’s championship game against Rutgers, which downed South Florida in the other semifinal.
SDSU had a chance to tie at the end, but Steph Paluch’s 3-point try from the top of the key bounced off the front rim.
SDSU was the first Summit League team to make it to the semifinals of the WNIT.
NHL…
CHICAGO (AP) – Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews (TAYVZ) will miss the rest of the regular season with an upper-body injury suffered in Sunday’s game against Pittsburgh, However, coach Joel Quenneville (KWEHN’-vihl) expects Toews to be “100 percent” for the playoffs. The Hawks are already without star forward Patrick Kane, who is out for the rest of the regular season with a lower-body injury.
MLB…
Former Twins pitcher Frank Viola is resting comfortably after heart surgery. The 1988 AL Cy Young Award winner was 176-150 with a 3.73 earned run average in 15 major league seasons.
COLLEGE ATHLETICS-UNION…
CHICAGO (AP) – A United Steelworkers official says Northwestern football players will vote April 25 on whether to authorize a union to represent them in collective bargaining with the university.
United Steelworkers has guided the College Athletes Players Association as it pushed for the right to form the nation’s first college athletes’ union. The regional director of the National Labor Relations Board ruled last week that the Northwestern players were employees and so could unionize, a decision the university plans to appeal.
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate Intelligence Committee is expected to vote today to approve declassifying part of a secret report on Bush-era interrogations of terrorism suspects. Members of the intelligence community question how the review could be fair or complete when it lacks interviews with top spy agency officials who had authorized or supervised the brutal interrogations.
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) – A top Ukrainian security official says there is evidence Russia’s security service assisted their Ukrainian counterparts’ attempts to suppress anti-government protests which culminated in bloodshed in February that left more than 100 dead. In a report today, ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s (yah-noo-KOH’-vich-ez) government is being accused of using a network of hired killers, kidnappers and gangs of thugs to terrorize and undermine the opposition.
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) – Secretary of State John Kerry is calling on Israeli and Palestinian leaders to “lead” now to prevent peace negotiations from collapsing. Speaking in Algeria, Kerry, frustrated by Israeli and Palestinian actions that have complicated his furious efforts vowed to continue them, “no matter what.”
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – Turkey’s government appears to be ignoring a high court ruling against the ban on Twitter, which remains in place today. The court ruled late yesterday that the two-week-old ban violates the right to free expression and demanded that access be restored. A government official says the decision is being examined.
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) – Investigators plan to explore whether a fight or argument on the base triggered an attack at Fort Hood that killed four people, including the shooter, an Iraq War veteran being treated for mental illness. Authorities say 16 other people were injured or wounded on the same Texas military base where 13 people were slain in 2009.
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