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Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Regional Airport Manager, Matt Leitner says the airport staff is readying the facility for the start of skyWest’s Jamestown air service starting on June 5, 2014.
On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2 Leitner said the SkyWest, United Airline service schedule is posted at the airport’s web site: http://flyjamestown.net/
He added that as of Thursday 275 boardings have been made through local travel agents, or on line at flyunited.com
Leitner noted that an Open House at the airport will be on June 20, 2014, with more information to be released later.
Leitner pointed out that Jamestown Regional Airport has received grant funding from the North Dakota Aeronautics Commission in the amount of $241,400 dollars.
The dollars will be used for upcoming projects including, airfield crack sealing and marking, the purchase of a new rescue and fire truck, wetland mitigation reduction and construction, the environmental assessment for jet service, and construction of a t-hangar building.
Leitner said the bid under review for the construction of an 8-unit hangar at $580,000 with officials to put together the financing package.
He added that the new fire and rescue truck with a capacity of 1,500 gallons will replace the truck now in use, with the price tag of $750,000. The state will pick up five percent, and the local share, also five percent is $37,500. The present unit will be traded in for the new truck. He said the present ARFF truck is fully operational and meets all of the requirements for the 50-seat CRJ-200. He said the airport would like to be proactive should Jamestown’s commercial air service be enhanced in the future, such as a 70 or 90-seat regional jet. Leitner said officials recognize that the state and community are poised for the continuation of large-scale economic growth and the objective as an airport is to be ready for it.
Another airport project is to establish parking for long-term, and short-term usage.
In sports…
Jamestown (CSi) The Stutsman County Wildlife Federation has canceled the Youth Fun Day that was rescheduled for Saturday May 10, 2014.
Spokesman Matt Opsahl says thr soil conditions are too wet at the Pipestem range to prepare the rifle range and hold the event. He says the event will be scheduled again next spring.
The club will meet Thursday night at 7:00, weather permitted the black powder and fireworks demo will be held after the regular meeting at about 8:00.
Thursday’s Varsity Baseball Double-Header vs. Dickinson was postponed to Friday , May 9th @ 4:30 PM (teams will only play one seven-inning conference game)
Thursday’s JV Baseball Double-Header vs. Dickinson was cancelled.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Park Board has approved a Hillcrest Municipal Golf Course improvement plan.
The project is expected to cost about $550,000.
Improvements planned include:
Filling the fairway bunker and regrade the fairway on hole No. 10;
Constructing bunkers and reconstruct the tees on hole No. 13;
Reconstructing the tees on holes No. 16, 17 and 18;
Reconstructing and leveling the tees on holes No. 1, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14 and 15;
Leveling the green and fairway and reconstruct the green surround and bunker for hole No. 17;
Regrading the fairway and tees on Hole No. 11, including work to improve the cart path and culverts.
The commission approved an addendum in the contract with the golf course designer Herfort Norby Golf Course Architects, LLC, of Chaska, Minnesota.
Norby receiving $6,400 more for designing the improvements:
The addendum includes an estimate of $90,000 to $110,000.
An estimate from Norby will be obtain for adding a second well to the golf course to improve the irrigation system.
Project funding will be discussed at the regular City Park Board meeting Monday, May 12, 2014.
Jamestown (CSi) The North Dakota Highway Patrol reports, a Ravenna
Nebraska man was killed when he rolled his semi rig Thursday morning about 7:10 northbound on Highway One about nine miles north of Verona.
35 year-old Wade Flies was driving the semi that drifted off of the roadway into the East ditch, where it rolled onto the roof, pinning him inside.
He was not wearing a seat belt, and he died on the scene.
He was taken to the Oakes Hospital by the Oakes/LaMoure Ambulance.
His name will be released pending notification of relatives.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a Washington state couple who were caught with medical marijuana.
Brian Kuruc and his wife, Rebecca Larson, of Dickinson, were apprehended last year at a Casselton motel. They entered conditional guilty pleas to possession of marijuana and tampering with physical evidence.
Defense attorneys argued that Kuruc and Larson both had valid pot prescriptions from Washington and the amount of marijuana was under their allowable limits.
The justices said in a ruling released Thursday that a prescription is not a valid defense and they don’t believe the Legislature meant to put the state “in the perplexing position” of recognizing prescriptions that can’t be legally obtained by its own citizens.
The court noted that medical marijuana is not legal under federal law.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A trade group that represents North Dakota oil drillers is unsure how a new federal emergency order on rail shipments will affect oil production.
The U.S. Department of Transportation on Wednesday required railroads to inform state emergency management officials about the movement of large shipments of crude oil.
The agency also asked companies shipping oil from the Bakken region of western North Dakota and eastern Montana to stop using older generation tank cars that have been involved in a spate of fiery derailments over the past year.
North Dakota Petroleum Council President Ron Ness says the federal government’s action came as a surprise. He says the industry believes Bakken oil is being unfairly singled out.
In world and nationa news…
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) – Plans for a referendum this weekend on sovereignty for eastern Ukraine are moving ahead, despite Wednesday’s plea from Russian President Vladimir Putin that the vote be postponed. But there are signs that the outcome might not reflect the will of the people in the region. Those who are opposed to the referendum seem likely to ignore it. And they may be in the majority. A poll released Thursday by the Pew Research Center indicates that 70 percent of the residents of Ukraine’s east want the country to maintain its current borders.
WASHINGTON (AP) – House Speaker John Boehner (BAY’-nur) is sidestepping questions about a GOP political committee that’s using an investigation of the Benghazi attack to raise money. The House is expected to vote later Thursday to create a panel to investigate the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Libya. Reporters asked Boehner about the appropriateness of a fundraising pitch that talks about the investigation. But each time, Boehner said the probe will focus on finding the truth about the attack for the U.S. and the families of the four Americans who died. Democrats say the committee will be too partisan.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – The Bureau of Land Management is warning its workers in Utah to be on alert after two men threatened an agency wrangler on the state’s main highway this week, pulling out a weapon and holding up a sign that read, “You need to die.” The incident comes at a time of high tension between some Western residents and the BLM. Last month, the agency stopped rounding up the cattle of a Nevada rancher after a showdown with hundreds of his supporters, some of them armed.
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) – Much of Mexico — including the southern Pacific coast and the country’s capital — has been shaken Thursday by a strong earthquake. It sent frightened people into the streets, to face unseasonal torrential rains that were also bearing down on the coast. There are no reports of injuries or major damage.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A lawyer for the estranged wife of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling says she will fight to retain her 50 percent ownership stake in the team. The lawyer for Shelly Sterling says she won’t agree to an “involuntary seizure of her interest.” Last week, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver banned Donald Sterling from the NBA for life and urged league owners to force him to sell the team — after a recording surfaced in which Sterling made racist comments.
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