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CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 15 TO 20. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S. SOUTH WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. LOWS IN THE MID 20S. WEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 30S. NORTHWEST WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 15 TO 20. NORTHWEST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE MID 20S.
LOWS 10 TO 15.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW.
LOWS AROUND 10.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. HIGHS
15 TO 20.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. LOWS ZERO TO 5 ABOVE.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS 15 TO 20.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 5 TO 10 ABOVE.
HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S.

 

Update Dec 4, 2012

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Nov 6, 2012) — Jamestown Police is warning Jamestown Residents of a convicted sex offender, who has changed address in Jamestown.

The report says, 42 year old Gero Mahto  has moved from 331  4th Avenue, Southwest in Jamestown, and as of Dec. 4, 2012,  now resides at

414 4th Street Northeast, in Jamestown..Apt # 1.

His vehicle is a Blue and White 1990 Ford F250 Pickup with North Dakota License

JSZ 185. Also a Green 1998 Ford Expedition (ND) Notary Sticker.

Mahto has been assigned a High Risk Assessment by the North Dakota Risk Level Committee of the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office.

He was convicted of Gross Sexual Imposition. During a period of three months in 1992, Mahto forcibly raped four women. He has been incarcerated since his convictions.

He will be on probation with the North Dakota Parole and Probation Department.

Mahto is not wanted by police at this time, and has served the sentence imposed by the court.

This notice is meant for public safety and not to increase fear in the community, nor should this information be used to threaten, assault, or intimidate the offender.

Attempts to harass, intimidate or threaten these offenders, families, landlords, or employers will be turned over for prosecution.

Printed handouts of Mahto’s photo and demographics are available at the Jamestown Police Department.

Mahto is  on GPS Monitoring.

More information on registered offenders is available at the North Dakota Attorney General’s web site: www.sexoffender.nd.gov

 

Valley City, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Dec 4, 2012) — Moving control of the 9-1-1 operations from Valley City control to Barnes County, will be delayed.

Originally the proposed plan was to have the change take effect on January 1, 2013.

Valley City Commissioner, Duane Magnuson has said that Valley City should renegotiate the cost share ratio, among other issues related to the 9-1-1 transfer.

The Barnes County Commissioners voted 3-2 to develop a Resolution to clear up the issues of control and distribution of funds with the cost ratio.

County Commissioners John Froelich and Phil Leitner voted against the Resolution, being opposed to moving transfer of the 9-1-1 dispatch center control from Valley City to Barnes County.

Recently, Valley City Administrator, David Schelkoph, at a County Commission meeting, told the County Commissioners, that the move should be delayed until July of 2013, which the County Commission voted to do at Tuesday’s County Commission meeting.

Schelkoph said he was grateful that Barnes County has agreed to the delay

Valley City had threatened the county with a lawsuit if it assumed the 9-1-1 dispatch contract on 1, January, 2013, seven months before the tentative contract was going to expire.

Barnes County Commissioner Eldred Knutson said it’s time to move forward not backwards on the take over.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Dec 4, 2012) — The Jamestown Choralaires will present their Christmas Dinner Concert, “’ Tis The Season,” on Friday December 7, 2012, and Saturday December 8th.

The concert will start at 7-O’Clock each evening at St. John’s Academy’s Zebedee Center.

On Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Choralaires spokesman, Roger Caine said, tickets are $30 each and are available only at Looysen I Care, on 1st Avenue South in Jamestown.

When reserving tickets, those purchasing tickets will be shown a seating arrangement to choose from.

He said seating is limited to 200 each evening, and he suggests reserving tickets early.

The dinner will be Festive Chicken Breast, with holiday trimmings, catered by Emma Rose of Jamestown.

In addition to entertaining the Choralaires between numbers serve and bus the tables.

The music will consist of Christian and secular songs, including the full group, and solos and small groups.

Caine says the Choralaires presently have 45 members and rehearse on Wednesday evenings at Jamestown Middle School

　

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota is getting a federal grant of nearly $1.4 million to help with recovery efforts following last year’s historic Missouri River flooding in the Bismarck-Mandan area.
 
     The state’s congressional delegation announced the Federal Emergency Management Agency grant on Tuesday. The money is in addition to other FEMA flood-recovery funding that already has been announced.
 
     Sens. John Hoeven and Kent Conrad and Rep. Rick Berg say the state will use the money to reimburse the city of Bismarck for repairs that already have been completed.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The newest group of North Dakota
legislators is getting used to their jobs.
     The Legislature is holding a three-day organizational session at
the Capitol this week. It started Monday and will end Wednesday
after Gov. Jack Dalrymple unveils his budget recommendations.
     Republican Rep. Rick Becker is a Bismarck plastic surgeon. He
says the most important job of the organizational session is to
meet new colleagues and “rub elbows a little bit.”
     One of the Democratic newcomers is Fargo banker George B.
Sinner. His parents came to his swearing-in Monday. They are former
Gov. George A. Sinner and first lady Jane Sinner.
     George Sinner is a former state senator himself, and he says
watching his son take office is “pure joy.”

 

KILLDEER, N.D. (AP) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says a
proposed residential subdivision in Killdeer could impact nearby
Spring Creek.
    The corps is taking public comment on the project until Dec. 17.
     The corps says the project has the potential to impact an
estimated 1,815 feet of stream bed and change the flow and
circulation of the water patterns through expansion of the channel
width.
     Killdeer Mayor Dan Dolechek says additional housing is “very
much needed” in the town due to oil activity.

 

 MANDAN, N.D. (AP) – Fifteen cattlemen from Kazakhstan have taken
ranching tips back to their country after spending time with some
veteran North Dakota cowboys.
     Mark Archibald ranches near Hettinger and hosted a contingent of
the Kazakhs last month. He says some of the Kazakhs don’t have much
experience with cattle so he and other ranchers helped out by
showing how it’s done in North Dakota.
     Several Kazakh cattlemen in their 20s were among those touring
North Dakota ranches, getting tips on everything from bovine
nutrition and branding to vaccinations and bull castrations.
     More than 5,000 Hereford and Angus cattle bred to withstand
North Dakota winters have been sent to Kazakhstan recently to
rebuild the country’s beef industry, which was almost depleted
after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – This year’s Pride of Dakota Holiday Showcases in the state’s four largest cities set an attendance record.
 
     Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring says slightly more than 34,000 shoppers took in the events in Grand Forks, Fargo, Bismarck and Minot. He says that was the most ever, and the Bismarck and Fargo showcases also set their own records.
 
     More than 500 companies with North Dakota-made products are members of the Agriculture Department’s Pride of Dakota branding program.

 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) – In order to avoid the “fiscal cliff,”
President Barack Obama says, Republicans will have to let tax rates
go up on the wealthiest Americans. He added in an interview with
Bloomberg Television that he’d consider lowering rates for the top
2 percent of earners next year as part of a broader tax overhaul
effort that finds other sources of revenue. A spokesman later left
open the possibility that the rates wouldn’t have to rise to the
levels that were in place during the Clinton administration.
     
     RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) – A senior Palestinian official says
Israel’s latest settlement plans will destroy any hopes of setting
up a Palestinian state next to Israel. Israel announced the plans
in response to last week’s U.N. vote recognizing a state of
Palestine in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem. The Israeli
plans include 3,000 more homes for Jews in the West Bank and east
Jerusalem.
     
     SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Two federal judges in California have now
issued somewhat competing rulings on the issue of psychotherapists
who try to change the sexual orientations of gay minors. A judge
Tuesday issued a ruling that will allow the state’s ban on so-called
“conversion” therapy to take effect next month. Monday night, a
judge granted a request by two mental health providers and a former
patient who want to be immune from the law until their lawsuit
seeking to overturn it is heard next year.
     
     PHOENIX (AP) – Authorities say a U.S. Border Patrol agent has
been arrested on suspicion of smuggling drugs. They say the agent
was on patrol Sunday in southwestern Arizona when he stopped along
the international border. According to a criminal complaint, people
in Mexico dropped bales of marijuana over the fence, and the agent
loaded them in his car. FBI agents and others used aerial
surveillance to track the agent as he returned to patrol, and he
was later arrested with nearly 147 pounds of pot.
     
     LOS ANGELES (AP) – The mayor of Los Angeles says both sides in
the lengthening strike at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long
Beach have agreed to federal mediation. However, the union
representing clerical workers says the strike – now in its eighth
day – will continue in the meantime. Cargo worth hundreds of
millions of dollars is being prevented from moving through the
ports each day.