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FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING…FOR THE JAMESTOWN AREA…
.REST OF TODAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS LATE IN THE MORNING…THEN NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS LATE IN THE AFTERNOON. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY
PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. EAST WINDS 15 TO
20 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 60 PERCENT.
.TONIGHT…SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EVENING…THEN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL POSSIBLE IN THE EVENING. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S.
SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH.
.THURSDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S. SOUTHWEST WINDS AROUND
10 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. LOWS IN THE MID 50S. WEST
WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S. SOUTHWEST WINDS 10 TO
15 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER
50S. HIGHS AROUND 80.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE
OF RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S. HIGHS
IN THE UPPER 70S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE
OF RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. LOWS
IN THE UPPER 50S.
TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FEW STORMS MAY BE
SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL…DAMAGING WINDS…AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH ANY TRAINING STORMS.
ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE.
THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP EARLY THURSDAY AND ONCE AGAIN FRIDAY.
Jamestown (CSi) The Stutsman County Commission has approved $7.1 million for bonds for the Great River Energy road.
There were bonds bids with the bid accepted, for a 3.2378 percent interest rate from Raymond James Investors. Currently, an average rate for such a bond would have been about 3.8 percent.
The borrowed money will all be paid back through special assessments, with Great River Energy paying 40 percent of the cost, and the Spiritwood Energy Park Association to pay 60 percent.
The project consists of an upgrade to a L-shaped section of road, which is a portion of 93rd Avenue Southeast.
Also, a section of 35th Street Southeast between 93rd and Stutsman County Highway 62.
The gravel roads, will be upgraded to Interstate-level, to be usable by all commercial vehicles.
Valley City (CSi) The Valley City Commission met in Regular Session Tuesday evening at City Hall. Commissioner Luke was present via telephone conference call. City Administrotr Schelkoph was not present.
Commissioners Nielson gave presented a proclamation on the “National Night Out,” block party.
The Commission encourages Valley City residents to host or attend block parties to get to know their neighbors.
Approval of the Consent Agenda items included:
A game of chance raffle permit for North American Game Warden Museum, Barnes County Municipal Airport, and Hi-Line Boosters Club.
A Beer and Liquor License renewal for VC Developers LLC dba Bridges Bar & Grill, Boomer’s Corner Keg, My Bar Valley City LLC, and Chinese Palace. And all others received, before the deadline.
A new Plumbers license for Best Plumbing and Heating Co.
Ordinances:
The City Commission approved the second and final reading of an Ordinance recodifying the Criminal Ordinance with one amendment. (17-03-09 Thefts Punishable Under City Ordinances has the $250.00 increased to $500.00 in line with the North Dakota Century Code.
The Commissioners approved the first reading of an Ordinance Creating a Perpetual Restrictive Covenant for Structures to be Removed in accordance with the State Water Commission.
Resolutions:
Approved a Resolution approving the bid and awarding contract for Paving Improvement District No. 106, in the amount of $391,134.60 to Border State’s Paving, contingent upon approval of the NDDOT.
A Resolution died for the lack of a second to a motion to eliminate the Easement for construction and maintenance of
dikes currently applied to two FEMA properties at 231 5TH Ave SW and 168 5th Ave SE. City Attorney Russell Myhre said the easements stemmed from the 2009 flood, and were eliminated. He said a temporary dike when be allowed, under emergency scenarios.
Approved a Resolution Creating Paving Improvement District No. 107, 5 th Avenue NE from 12 th Street NE north to city limits.
New Business:
Approved the 2015 Infrastructure projects.
Approved a Memorandum of Understanding Between Barnes County and City of Valley City regarding Planning and Zoning jurisdiction within the 1 mile and 2 mile circumference. City Attorney Myhre said the memorandum is more flexible under changes with state law. Plus with more development, Myhre said clarification is needed, with a formal agreement between the city and county. He said the Barnes County had approved the memorandum.
Approved renewing Gaming Site Authorizations for:
VFW at Nubar and VFW Club and The Rusty Cage Bar & Grill.
Boomer’s Corner Keg for Thundering Saints, Inc.
Eagles Club for North Dakota Wildlife Federation.
Valley City State University Foundation, (4) at Eagles Club, VC Town & Country Club, VCSU Lokken Stadium and VCSU W.E. Osmon Fieldhouse.
The City Commission passed approval of hiring Precision Concrete Cutting for sidewalk maintenance, or replacement where needed. The cost amounts to $70 per cut.
Approved the construction engineering agreement with KLJ not to exceed $3,500 for Paving Improvement District No. 107.
City Updates and Commission Reports:
City Auditor Richter noted that the preliminary June 10, 2014 election results have been canvassed, with no changes.
She added that the next City Commission will have the elected members swearing in on June 24, 2014, at 9-a.m.
City Fire Chief Gary Retterath reminded residents to be careful and follow the city Ordinance regarding the use of fire pits.
Commissioner Nielson reported on a successful Rally in the Valley event and carnival, and thanked the electrical department for their assistance.
Mayor Werkhoven noted the mowing of dikes in the city needs attention.
The meeting was shown live on CSi 68, followed by replays.
Jamestown (CSi) At the Jamestown Public School Board, Monday, outgoing School Board members Roy Musland, Tonya Ostlie and Shelly Jystad received certificates of excellence in appreciation by Nellie Degen of the Parents Awareness/Prevention Center
She noted the school board members time, support and dedication to the Jamestown Public School District students and families during their School Board terms.
Those school board members did not seek re-election at the June 10, 2014 elections.
Elected to the school board were: Urban/City members, Robert Toso, and Brenda Roemmich, and re-elected was Heidi Heim Larson.
Elected to to the Rural Seats were Greg Allen (re-elected) and Mindy Schmitz.
The school board also received information on the planned Two Rivers Activity Center, from Board of Directors member, Amy Walters.
The proposed design for the center outlines twice as much land as the district allotted. Walters said the architectural firm will make changes to the design, or more adjacent land will have to be acquired from either the Jamestown Regional Medical Center or the district.
The school board heard a report on a Daily Bread pilot program which provides meals during the summer months for at-risk students and families in need.
Among the Jamestown locations, families can get meals from a freezer at Washington Elementary School ,without completing forms or other paperwork.
The meeting was recorded and being shown on CSi 10 THE REPLAY CHANNEL.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Public School District is asking the community for input for the long-term planning, through an online survey at the district’s website at www.jamestown.k12.nd.us.
The survey will be closed on June 27, 2014, with the information to be presented to the public and reviewed by the board at a future board meeting.
Superintendent Rob Lech’s power point presentation before Monday’s regular School Board meeting shared information related to the district’s academic and extracurricular planning, staffing and facilities and taxation changes over the next three- to five-year period.
Lech’s presentation can also be viewed on the website.
In the future the public school board will address the possible shift to grade-level elementary schools in place of the district schools which was started in the 2005-2006 school year.
Lech said there were 970 students in grades K-5 in the 2013-2014 school year, the highest number of elementary students in the last nine years.
Jamestown (CSi) The Annual R.M. Stoudt Off Road Festival is geared up for June 20th through the 22nd this year at Pipestem Creek.
Earlier this year The Buffalo City Tourism Grant/Executive Board approved a funding request for the R.M. Stoudt, Xterra Festival advertising.
The annual festival is part of the Xterra Point Series. Riders from all over the world gather at events put on my different organizations such as triathlons, trail runs, biking and swimming. The events, are open to everyone, and includes two triathlons, an open water swim, trail run and biking race.
Founder of the local event Steve Aesoph says it was created in 2009 to showcase the city of Jamestown. Last year there were 120 participants from 27 states and three countries.
This year, the festival joins the Jamestown Salvation Army to donate $750 worth of bikes to adults and children that need them.
Aesoph says the event is still welcoming volunteers and sponsors. Anyone can participate in the events.
To get more information, sign up for the event or become a volunteer, you can visit their Facebook Page, E-Mail Steve: aesophs@gmail.com or call 701-269-0569.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Park Board has approved a bid including addendums of a total $610,032 for improvements to Hillcrest Municipal Golf Course.
The base bid is from Dunnick Golf, from Minnesota, for $587,032. The two addendums to the bid raised the total cost to $610,032.
Another bid was rejected, not submitted in the proper format.
The Park Board approved working with the City of Jamestown on setting the terms for a bond for $1.1 million to cover the cost of the project and pay off the $355,000 the Parks and Recreation Department owes for improvements to the Winter Sports Building.
Valley City (CSi) Construction on the new Faith Lutheran Church in Valley City will start on the present site of Smith Lumber Company.
When the business’s structure is demolished, after it moves to East Main Street, the
fromer Triple-S Livestock location, the church construction will start, at that location.
The church burned on October 21, 2013, the fire set by an arsonist searching for money.
The charred remains weakened the structure to the point it was not repairable.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A farm worker from South Africa has been killed in a grain bin accident in McLean County.
27-year-old Corneilius Johannes Du Plessis was killed Monday when corn collapsed inside a bin in which he was working.
McLean County Coroner Ben Gehring says Du Plessis died at the scene.
Authorities say the state medical examiner’s office in Bismarck will perform an autopsy.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – The female passenger of a vehicle who was found shot after a traffic stop in Minot is listed in critical condition.
Police say that officers stopped a vehicle that was traveling at high speed early Sunday morning and determined that a 44-year female passenger had been shot.
Her name has not been released.
31-year-old Robert Putney Jr. was arrested at the time to shooting victim was brought to the hospital. He was charged with driving under the influence and misdemeanor assualt.
Putney pleaded guilty to those charges Tuesday and is serving a 30 day sentence in the Ward County Jail.
Police say they are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the shooting.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – A Minot woman accused of stabbing her husband is on trial this week on a charge of attempted murder.
35-year-old Heather Leavitt is accused of stabbing her husband, Timothy Leavitt, eight times in February. A neighbor alerted police.
Dr. Gregory Casey testified Tuesday about treating Timothy Leavitt in the emergency room in the early morning hours of Feb. 1.
The surgical director of trauma services at Trinity Hospital says Leavitt suffered punctures to both lungs.
Heather Leavitt faces up to 20 years in prison. Her trial is expected to last through the week in Northwest District Court in Minot.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A Texas man who was arrested in an online sex trafficking sting has been sentenced to more than five years in prison.
Fifty-year-old Lawrence Hundley, of Porter, Texas, pleaded guilty to coercion and enticement of a minor.
Hundley was one of 14 people in Williston and Dickinson arrested in an investigation tabbed “Operation Vigilant Guardian.”
U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland sentenced Hundley to five years and three months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release.
A federal public defender was not immediately available for comment.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota is now producing 1 million barrels of oil per day. That’s in part because of the rich Bakken shale formation in the western part of the state. The state produced 977,000 barrels per day in March. It joins Texas, Alaska, California and Louisiana as the only states ever to produce more than a million barrels per day.
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) – Numerous speakers have told a state Senate committee that they oppose the rapid increase in railcars carrying crude oil from the Bakken fields of North Dakota and Montana through the state. The Senate Energy, Environment and Telecommunications Committee met in Spokane to take testimony on a bill that seeks to improve the safety of those oil shipments.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The chairman of committee in charge of North Dakota’s oil tax savings account says it’s unlikely lawmakers will tap into the fund when its earnings first become available.
Rep. Keith Kempenich says there is no need to access the fund if money is available from other sources.
The Legacy Fund gets 30 percent of the state’s oil tax collections. The money can’t be touched before 2017 and it would still take a two-thirds vote of the Legislature for the state to dip into the fund.
The fund’s balance is more than $2 billion at present.
Kempenich says the he doesn’t “think there’s going to be a will to appropriate it.”
North Dakota voters approved the fund in 2010.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Managers from three Panama flour mills are visiting North Dakota to learn more about this year’s spring wheat and durum crops.
The officials also hope to become more familiar with the U.S. wheat system from farm to mill during their visit Thursday and Friday.
Panama imports almost 90 percent of its wheat from the U.S. – buying about 4.5 million bushels annually. The North Dakota Wheat Commission says it’s an important market for the state’s farmers because spring wheat and durum make up nearly half of the wheat sent to the Central American country.
The mill officials will meet with Wheat Commission officials and North Dakota State University researchers in Fargo, and also tour the Northern Crops Institute and a local grain elevator.
In sports…
AA, CAN-AM INTERLEAGUE PLAY…
Fargo-Moorhead 6, Rockland 5, 11 innings
MLB…
INTERLEAGUE
Final Seattle 6 San Diego 1
Final Washington 6 Houston 5
Final Chi White Sox 8 San Francisco 2
AMERICAN LEAGUE
BOSTON (AP) – Jon Lester weathered a shaky start and pitched six-plus strong innings as the Red Sox held off the Minnesota Twins 2-1 last night. Lester has a winning record for the first time this season. The Red Sox have won two straight and four of six. Phil Hughes took the loss for the Twins.
Final L.A. Angels 9 Cleveland 3
Final N-Y Yankees 3 Toronto 1
Final Kansas City 11 Detroit 4
Final Baltimore 7 Tampa Bay 5
Final Oakland 10 Texas 6
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final Cincinnati 6 Pittsburgh 5
Final Miami 6 Chi Cubs 5
Final Philadelphia 5 Atlanta 2
Final St. Louis 5 N-Y Mets 2
Final Milwaukee 7 Arizona 5
Final L.A. Dodgers 4 Colorado 2
WNBA BASKETBALL
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Maya Moore scored 31 points to lead the Minnesota Lynx to a 94-77 win against the Los Angeles Sparks last night. Moore scored 16 of Minnesota’s 32 points in the third quarter as the Lynx snapped a two-game losing streak and avoided their fourth loss in five games. Moore shot 12 for 16 from the field.
Final Connecticut 89 Indiana 67
WORLD CUP SOCCER
Final Belgium 2 Algeria 1
Final Mexico 0 Brazil 0
Final South Korea 1 Russia 1
COLLEGE WORLD SERIES…
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Texas Tech is done at the College World Series.
Mississippi pulled out a 2-1 win against the Red Raiders on pinch hitter John Gatlin’s RBI single in the bottom of the ninth. The winning hit came a half-inning after pinch-runner Zach Davis stole second and third before scoring on Anthony Lyons’ sacrifice fly.
Virginia won it its final at-bat for the second time in two games. Daniel Pinero hit a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 15th to lift the Cavaliers past TCU 3-2. Branden Cogswell went 3-for-5 and scored twice for the Wahoos.
NBA…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The Minnesota Timberwolves have named Sam Mitchell as an assistant on coach Flip Saunders’ staff. Mitchell played for the Timberwolves in 10 seasons. Mitchell coached the Toronto Raptors for just over four seasons and was named coach of the year in 2006-07. He also served as an assistant under Avery Johnson in New Jersey and George Karl in Milwaukee.
NFL…
CLEVELAND (AP) – The Browns have agreed to terms with quarterback Johnny Manziel (man-ZEHL’) on his rookie contract. The Browns moved up in May’s NFL draft to select the former 2012 Heisman Trophy winner with the 22nd overall pick. Manziel went 20-6 in two seasons at A&M, where he earned the nickname “Johnny Football.”
In world and national news…
BAGHDAD (AP) – Iraq’s prime minister says the initial shock has worn off and the tide is beginning to turn in the fight against Sunni militants in the north. Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite who has been in office since 2006, says the government has regained the initiative and begun a counteroffensive. The militants overran towns and cities last week.
DAMATURU, Nigeria (AP) – Police in northeast Nigeria say the death toll is 14 after a suicide bomber detonated explosives packed into a tricycle taxi at an outdoor World Cup viewing site. Another 26 people are wounded. There is no immediate claim of responsibility but Boko Haram, an armed group that wants to turn Nigeria into an Islamic state, is suspected.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Fraud allegations have emerged in the runoff election for president of Afghanistan. Front-runner Abdullah Abdullah is calling for a halt in vote counting. He’s questioning what his team has determined early lead of 1 million votes by his opponent, Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (ahsh-RAHF’ gah-NEE’ ah-mahd-ZEYE’). Abdullah says it’s a dramatic change from the first round that put him in the lead with 45 percent of the vote compared to 31.6 percent for his rival.
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukraine’s president is offering a cease-fire if pro-Russian separatists in the east want to lay down weapons or leave the country. Petro Poroshenko’s plan, announced following conversations with Russian and German leaders, aims to end two months of fighting in eastern provinces that form the nation’s industrial heartland. It could also help ease the worst crisis between Russia and the West since the Cold War.
NEW YORK (AP) – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has issued an order that gives the fire department a much greater role in responding to reports of possible gas leaks. The order is in response to a March blast that killed eight people and leveled two East Harlem buildings. The mandate to increase the oversight of the fire department is in a report obtained by The Associate Press ahead of its release today.
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