wbPM2CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY IN THE EVENING…THEN MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH   20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA.
LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. SOUTHWEST WINDS AROUND 5 MPH SHIFTING TO
THE NORTH AFTER MIDNIGHT.

THURSDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MORNING  IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA…THEN PARTLY SUNNY IN THE
AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S. NORTHEAST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY…DECREASING CLOUDS. RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
LIKELY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 60 PERCENT.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS AROUND 60.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF
RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 50S. HIGHS IN THE
UPPER 70S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.

 

 CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE  WEDNESDAY  AFTERNOON AND
WEDNESDAY NIGHT…ESPECIALLY WEST WHERE SOME STORMS COULD BE STRONG.
 
 THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH
 DAKOTA EACH DAY THROUGH TUESDAY.
 
 ON THURSDAY NIGHT THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND
 THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. SOME OF THESE
 STORMS COULD BE STRONG.
 
 ON FRIDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST. SOME OF THESE STORMS
 COULD BE STRONG AS WELL.

 

Bismarck (CSi) The North Dakota Aeronautics Commission reports that 546 passenger boarded in Jamestown in May of 2015,

That compares to May of 2013 when Great Lakes Airlines served Jamestown, of 206. Jamestown did not have commercial airline service in May of 2014, as UnitedExpress/SkyWest started service in June of 2014.

Prior to May this year, the next highest Jamestown boardings was 443 in May of 2011 with Delta Airlines service.

 

Jamestown (CSi) District 12 North Dakota Democratic, Representative, Jessica Haak will host forums to discuss the needs surrounding childcare in Jamestown and surrounding communities. The forums will be held from 12:07 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 23, and Monday, June 29, at the Gladstone Inn & Suites in Jamestown.

On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Representative Haak said, the events are open to the public and will have leaders from the childcare industry and the business community in attendance.

Those include, ChildCare Aware, the Jamestown Head Start program, and invited is Jamestown Public School Superintendent, Rob Lech.

She said the forums are also a way for concerned parents in the community to express their views.

Ms Haak said, “Childcare is a critical issue in Jamestown. It is important that we bring business leaders, parents, and providers together to discuss solutions to the needs throughout the community. In Jamestown, over 90 percent of households with two parents have both parents working. That’s higher than the state average. We need to collaborate to address this issue to anticipate the growth in Jamestown and surrounding communities in upcoming years.”

An opportunity will be provided to all who attend to comment on the childcare issue. Lunch will not be served, but attendees can order off the menu at their own expense.

 

  WASHBURN, N.D. (AP) – One of the huge draglines that digs for coal at a central North Dakota mine has tipped over.
 
     The incident happened Wednesday at the Falkirk Mine near Washburn. A mine spokesman says no one was injured and the machine has no major damage.
 
     The spokesman says a high wall issue or slumping ground caused the dragline to tip.
 
     The dragline weighs 13.5 million pounds and was built in the 1970s. Its diameter is about 80 feet long.

 

 WATFORD CITY, N.D. (AP) – A Colorado man has been charged with criminal vehicular homicide in a weekend crash in North Dakota that killed two Montana men.
 
     Authorities say 32-year-old Dustin Jeane of Grand Junction, Colorado, was driving a pickup truck that went out of control on state Highway 1806 and rolled in the ditch about 20 miles north of Watford City shortly after 10 a.m. Saturday.
 
     The crash killed two passengers: 28 year-old Aaron Clark, of Billings, Montana, and 32 year-old Christopher Hoiland, of Glendive, Montana.
 
     Jeane could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted. Court documents don’t list an attorney for him and show that his application for a public defender was denied. He is scheduled to appear in court on July 30 and could enter a plea at that time.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A man who received packages of powdered fentanyl and other drugs that became the focus of a federal investigation into overdoses in the Grand Forks area has been sentenced to three years in prison.
 
     Twenty-year-old Jameson Sele (SEE’-lee) pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy to possess with intent to deliver controlled substances. Authorities say he continued to accept packages after he knew someone died of an overdose.
 
     Sele is the first of a half-dozen defendants to be sentenced in the case.
 
     Federal sentencing guidelines called for Sele to serve a sentence of nearly six years, but the two sides agreed on the three-year term because the defendant cooperated with authorities and accepted responsibility.
 
     Sele apologized to the court Wednesday and said each day he thinks about the people who died.

 

LINCOLN, N.D. (AP) – The mayor of Lincoln has been ousted in a recall vote.
 
     Unofficial results from Tuesday’s election show that residents of the community near Bismarck voted 300-78 to have 50-year-old challenger Gerald Wise take over as mayor from 68-year-old Bob Johnston.
 
 A citizen committee forced the recall election after numerous disagreements between Johnston and the City Council.
 
     Wise says he wants to move forward. Johnston says he wishes the community the best. He was in his final year in office and had not planned to seek re-election.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota regulators aren’t endorsing Xcel Energy’s plans for some solar projects in Minnesota.
 
     The Minneapolis-based power company is proposing the projects to comply with Minnesota’s mandate that investor-owned utilities get 1.5 percent of their power from the sun by 2020.
 
     Xcel has about 87,000 customers in North Dakota.
 
     The Public Service Commission determined Wednesday that the projects don’t provide the best option for low-cost electricity for North Dakota customers.
 
     Commission chairwoman Julie Fedorchak says North Dakota customers “shouldn’t have to pay for policies they had no say in creating.”
 
     Xcel officials say the solar projects will move forward without the nod from North Dakota regulators.
 
     The three solar projects proposed by the company would create 187 megawatts of electricity, or enough to power about 187,000 homes.
 

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Legislature’s 141 members have been assigned committees to study topics that could inspire bills for the next legislative session.
 
     The Legislative Management committee assigned the lawmakers to 24 committees on Tuesday. The committees will study 44 subjects ranging from energy to education.
 
     Each committee will compile a report and any suggested legislation for the 2017 session.
 
     The Legislative Management committee is a 17-member panel that oversees the Legislature’s business between sessions. The panel named four Democrats to chair the interim committees. That’s the most since 2009, when there were eight. Last session, there were no Democrats who headed committees.
 
     Republicans have two-thirds majorities in both the North Dakota House and Senate, and they control the study and committee selection process.

 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Reserve says it wants to see further gains in the job market, along with higher inflation, before it raises interest rates from record-low levels. The Fed gave no timetable for a rate hike, but said it expects the economy’s gains to accelerate later this year. The statement followed the central bank’s latest policy meeting.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – Congressional officials say the House will attempt as early as Thursday to revive trade legislation sought by President Barack Obama. It was blocked last week in a revolt by union-backed Democrats. The officials say the vote would come on a stand-alone measure that would allow Congress to approve or reject future global trade deals, but not change them. A provision to renew a program of assistance for workers who lose their jobs because of imports would become part of a separate bill.
 
     PARIS (AP) – Prosecutors in France say the top suspect in a 1982 attack at a deli in Paris has been arrested in Jordan. They describe the man (Souhaur Mouhamad Hassan Khalil Al-Abbassi) as the “supervisor” of the attack. Palestinians burst into the deli in the French capital’s Jewish quarter, throwing grenades and spraying machine-gun fire. Six people, including two Americans, were killed.
 
     SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) – Rachel Dolezal (DOH’-zhahl) now says that there’s no proof that she’s really the daughter of the couple who say she’s a white woman and that she has passed herself off as black. She tells NBC News that she hasn’t had a DNA test, and that there’s no “biological proof” that Larry and Ruthanne Dolezal are her parents. The former head of the NAACP branch in Spokane, Washington, said earlier that she identifies as black.
 
     OAK ISLAND, N.C. (AP) – The weekend shark attack on a girl in surf about 100 yards from a North Carolina fishing pier has the town considering a ban on shark fishing, which lures the fish closer to shore. Officials in Oak Island are looking at whether they can ban shark fishing at least temporarily this summer after two people were attacked Sunday within about 90 minutes of each other. Fishermen say they don’t think they should be blamed or punished for the rare shark attacks.