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TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S. NORTH WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH.
.THURSDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 50S. NORTH WINDS
AROUND 10 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. AREAS OF FROST AFTER
MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE MID 30S. NORTHWEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. PATCHY FROST IN THE MORNING. HIGHS IN THE
UPPER 50S. WEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S. SOUTHWEST
WINDS AROUND 5 MPH.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE
LOWER 60S. LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S.
LOWS IN THE MID 40S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS AROUND 50.
.WEDNESDAY…SUNNY WITH SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS. HIGHS IN
THE LOWER 70S.
SNOW WILL BE A POSSIBILITY WHEREVER PRECIPITATION FALLS EARLY THURSDAY MORNING.
FROST WILL BE A POSSIBILITY, AND EVEN WITH NO FROST IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO COVER YOUR GARDEN AND OUTDOOR PLANTS WITH SNOW IN THE FORECAST.
PATCHY TO WIDESPREAD FROST IS FORECAST LATE THURSDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. SOME PLACES COULD HAVE A FREEZE FRIDAY MORNING.
PATCHY FROST IS POSSIBLE SATURDAY MORNING.
Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Public Works informs motorists that due to necessary utility work, 4TH Ave NW from 5th St NW to 6th St NW will be closed to through traffic beginning immediately Wednesday until repairs are completed. Traffic is re-routed until the repair work is completed.
Motorists’ should use EXTREME caution in and around this area and use alternate routes.
Jamestown (CSi) An Open House at the 1883 Stutsman County Courthouse is set for Saturday September 13, 2014 from 1-5-p.m.
The event is an officially sanctioned North Dakota 125th Anniversary event.
During the days of Dakota Territory, meetings were held in the courthouse in preparation for statehood.
On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, the State Historical Society’s, Historic Sites, Manager, Guinn Hinman said, this is the first opportunity the public has had in 30 years to view and tour the 1883 courthouse, and observe the restoration efforts.
During the Open House, there will be tours, including rooms open for viewing in the 1883 courthouse. There will be individuals stationed in each room, to welcome guests, as interpreters, including Mary Young, Keith Norman, Alden Kollman and University of Jamestown history professor Tim Bratton. .
The courthouse is the oldest surviving courthouse in North Dakota, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The building is considered a superb, and rare example in the upper midwest, of the Gothic-Revival style of architecture. The interior is outstanding for its stamped metal ornamentation that dates to 1905.
Restoration efforts have stabilized the exterior of the courthouse, and the State Historical Society is currently installing a new mechanical system. This is the first of many projects that will eventually lead to the courthouse becoming a state historic site open for tours.
Future plans include possibly utilizing the building for community events, and lectures from the University of Jamestown.
The state legislature and local contributions have over the past five years, total $400,000, toward the restoration efforts.
Anyone interested in making a monetary donation, may do so through the State Historical Society’s Foundation.
The State Historical Society and the 1883 Courthouse Committee encourages everyone to come and enjoy the building, speak with interpreters and learn about future rehabilitation plans for the interior.
Washington (CSi) . U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp today announced a total of more than $4 million in federal funding to make improvements and updates at the Grand Forks, Jamestown and Fort Berthold airports.
Heitkamp says, “Across our state, we’re seeing a serious increase in demand for air travel. To keep up, many of our airports are building out their facilities, and making updates and improvements to accommodate that growth. Our airports provide lifelines to our communities – promoting economic development, tourism, job growth, and so much more – and by helping them expand, we’re also improving safety for passengers and airport personnel. These funds will help the airports in Grand Forks, Jamestown and on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation make improvements that will not only improve the efficiency of the airport, but also maintain the high level of safety.”
The funds distributed includes:
Jamestown Regional Airport – $729,000. These funds will be used for wetland mitigation. Specifically, the funds will be used to drain a wetland on the airport property and restoring it off-property. In May, Heitkamp announced more than $800,000 in federal funds for Jamestown Regional Airport to acquire a new Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting vehicle.
· Grand Forks International Airport – $2,792,978. These funds will be used to build an aircraft rescue and fire fighting building. Last month, Heitkamp announced more than $700,000 in federal funds given to Grand Forks International Airport to improve and upgrade the taxiway. The airport also received more than $4 million in federal funds in May to help reconstruct a taxiway to meet FAA standards.
· Parshall – Hankins Airport in Fort Berthold – $489,000. These funds will be used to rehabilitate the runway, specifically to complete the mill and overlay.
In April, Heitkamp brought Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta to North Dakota, including Grand Forks, to see firsthand the aviation challenges facing the western part of the state. During the visit, Huerta learned about the drastic rise in passenger enplanements, placing major stress on airport infrastructure. Since then, Heitkamp has announced more than $35 million in federal funds used to invest in North Dakota’s aviation infrastructure.
Valley City (CSi) Valley City State University was ranked No. 2 among Top Public Regional Colleges in the Midwest in the 2015 edition of U.S. News Best Colleges. VCSU held the same position in the 2014 U.S. News rankings.
For six consecutive years, VCSU has been ranked either first or second in its category and has been North Dakota’s highest-rated Public Regional College. For 17 consecutive years VCSU has been recognized by U.S. News as a “Best College.”
“The U.S News ranking is an affirmation of the quality education experience offered at Valley City State,” said Margaret Dahlberg, VCSU interim president. “This recognition is a reflection of the good work that our faculty and staff—and our students—do every day in creating a successful teaching and learning environment.”
In the U.S. News rankings, accredited U.S. colleges and universities are grouped according to their mission and, for some categories, by location. Then the institutions are compared based on data related to academic excellence from up to 16 areas.
VCSU fared well on the criteria, particularly in the categories of average class size, peer assessment, student-faculty ratio, alumni giving, and graduation rate exceeding prediction.
The “Regional Colleges in the Midwest” category includes 95 colleges and universities, with 13 public institutions, across 12 states.
The rankings are available online at www.usnews.com/colleges and will be published in the 2015 edition of the U.S. News Best Colleges guidebook.
Bismarck (CSi) The North Dakota’s Autism Spectrum Disorder Task Force will meet Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (Central Time) using nine video conference-equipped meeting sites across the state.
Advocates, parents, the public, and other interested individuals are invited to participate in the meeting from Jamestown, at the South Central Human Service Center, 520 Third St. N.W., Meeting Rooms 124-126
Agenda items include updates on the Consensus Council’s Autism Group and the autism survey status. The N.D. Department of Health will provide an update on the Autism registry, and the N.D. Department of Human Services will give an update on the Autism waiver, voucher program, autism training, and website. The N.D. Department of Public Instruction will provide an update on education related to children with autism and training for parents and educators. Task force members will review and continue to work on the Autism Plan development efforts. An agenda is online at www.nd.gov/dhs/info/publicnotice/index.html. More information on autism-related activities is on the Web at www.nd.gov/dhs/autism.
Individuals with disabilities who need accommodations can contact Julie Huwe at 701-328-8920, toll free 800-755-2719, ND Relay TTY 800-366-6888, or jhuwe@nd.gov.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Public health officials say a rare virus believed to be the cause of a severe respiratory illness that has affected children in at least 10 states may have already made its way to North Dakota and South Dakota.
The suspected germ is enterovirus 68. It’s an uncommon strain of a common family of viruses that typically hit from summertime through autumn.
The virus can cause mild cold-like symptoms including runny noses, coughing and wheezing. Health officials say this strain is particularly harsh and children with asthma and other health problems are particularly at risk.
Officials in the Dakotas are waiting for test results from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
There is no vaccine for the virus. Most children recover within a week with no lasting problems.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – A Williston attorney says strip club dancers in the oil boomtown are getting short-changed in pay because they are classified as independent contractors and not employees.
Brandon Hale is suing the city’s two strip clubs, alleging they businesses are violating state and federal labor laws.
He is seeking back pay for dancers who have worked at the strip clubs since September 2012.
Hale says claims that the dancers are making large sums of money in the oil boom town are unfounded.
Calls to Whispers Nightclub and Heartbreakers Gentleman’s Club were not immediately returned on Wednesday. The strip clubs are located on the city’s Main Street, located near the chamber of commerce and the Amtrak train depot.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – Norwegian oil company Statoil is planning to widen a technologically advanced natural gas capture program in North Dakota’s oil fields that it says will reduce natural gas flaring.
Statoil, General Electric and Ferus Natural Gas Fuels on Wednesday announced that a natural gas capture pilot project will expand and power up to six of Statoil’s drilling rigs in the state.
The program allows Statoil to capture natural gas that would be flared and use it as a power source for oil exploration and production machinery.
Natural gas is a valuable byproduct of oil production. But without infrastructure in place to capture it, it is burned off. North Dakota currently flares around 30 percent of the natural gas it produces. The national flaring rate is around 1 percent.
WEST FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Visitors from as far away as Denmark and Zambia are in North Dakota this week learning about the state’s agribusinesses.
The North Dakota Trade Office says about 75 people from 15 countries are taking part in the Big Iron International Visitor’s Program, which is aimed at helping agribusinesses expand sales abroad.
Officials say the visitors are attending the Big Iron Farm Show at the Red River Valley Fairgrounds. Delegates also are touring some ranches and farms in the state.
The event is in its eighth year.
Lt. Gov. Drew Wrigley says the event has successfully promoted North Dakota products “in high-demand markets throughout the world.”
In sports…
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – City officials in Fargo say free shuttles and MATBUS service will be available Saturday during the ESPN College GameDay event in an effort to avoid traffic in the downtown area.
The Saturday morning football show will be broadcast from downtown Fargo for the second straight year. The top-ranked Bison are scheduled to play their home opener Saturday afternoon at the Fargodome against Incarnate Word of San Antonio, Texas.
City officials say the free shuttle service to and from the event downtown will run continuously from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. Fargo’s MATBUS system won’t charge residents for riding any fixed route bus to and from the city’s downtown.
Free parking will be available in any city-owned lots.
In world and national news…
PARIS (AP) – There’s already an offer of help from Europe, as President Barack Obama prepares to outline his plans for fighting Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq. France is offering to take part in airstrikes against extremist fighters in Iraq, if needed — although it’s insisting on a more careful approach for Syria. A decade ago, France vigorously opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, arguing for diplomacy. Officials say the tougher stance is justified because Iraq wants help, and because the Islamic State militants aren’t a government that can be negotiated with.
DENVER (AP) – A Denver woman will have to help authorities investigate other Americans who are trying to help the Islamic State militant group. That’s a requirement of the plea deal under which 19-year-old Shannon Conley pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to support terrorists. Conley could face up to five years in federal prison. But if she helps provide information about people in Colorado and elsewhere who are looking to help terrorists, prosecutors say they will ask a judge to reduce her sentence.
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) – There’s more help coming from the United States for the fight against the Ebola virus in West Africa. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it will give another $50 million to fight the outbreak. The money will go to purchase supplies and to develop vaccines, therapies and better diagnostic tools. Also Wednesday, the United States donated five ambulances to help Sierra Leone deal with the outbreak. The government there had said it can take up to 24 hours to pick up dead bodies — because they first must be tested for Ebola.
UNDATED (AP) – A United Nations panel of scientists says Earth’s protective ozone layer is starting to recover. And the main reason, they say, is the phase-out since the 1980s of certain chemicals used in refrigerants and aerosol cans. Experts hail this as rare environmental good news, demonstrating that when the world comes together it can counteract a brewing ecological crisis. The fragile ozone layer shields us from solar radiation that causes skin cancer and crop damage. It had been thinning since the late 1970s.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – A Miss America contestant who fainted on stage Tuesday night is out of the hospital. And pageant officials are hoping that Miss Rhode Island will be able to compete in tonight’s preliminary competition in Atlantic City, N.J. A host told the audience that Ivy DePew “got a little overheated” during the awards presentation.
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