January 11 – The following stories from this week appeared on
www.jamestownsun.com
and in The Jamestown Sun.
The Jamestown City Council unanimously approved a proposal from Heartland Heating & Cooling in Jamestown on Monday, January 6.
to buy and develop real estate
at the Harold P. Bensch addition.
The City Attorney’s Office was also approved to work with Heartland Heating & Cooling to prepare documents for City Council approval.
On related matters, the City Council held the first reading of an ordinance to amend the zoning of parcels one and two on block one and parcel one on block two of the Harold P. Bensch Addition.
The properties are located at 301, 401 and 402 11th Ave. S.E.
The destination of the buildings will be changed from a general industrial and production district to a general commercial district.
Heartland Heating & Cooling’s proposal includes the construction of a 12,000-square-foot building.
The Stutsman County Commission unanimously approved its filing on Tuesday, Jan. 7
a letter of support to the city of Jamestown
for a U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development grant application for the third phase of the city’s 96-inch storm sewer replacement project.
“As part of that grant application, they just want to make sure it doesn’t conflict with anything else in the jurisdiction,” said city engineer Travis Dillman.
The letter, which will be sent to Mayor Dwaine Heinrich, says the county commission has determined that the city’s storm sewer replacement project “would not conflict with any comprehensive development plan of the county for the area.”
It’s been winter so far in North Dakota
colder and drier than normal
according to Daryl Ritchison, director of the North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network and state climatologist.
“There is very little snow across the state,” he said. “Far below average, with little or no snow in some areas.”
The average maximum December snow depth in Jamestown has been 9 inches for the past 24 years, according to the National Weather Service report based on North Dakota State Hospital statistics. This includes the winter of 2019-2020, when snow depths reached 30 inches in December and remained at 32 inches in January and February.
According to measurements at the State Hospital, the maximum snow depth in December 2023 was 7.5 cm. Although snow depth averaged 1.25 inches that month, the Jamestown area was ravaged by an ice storm in late December that caused millions in damage to utility poles and power lines in the area.
Last December, the State Hospital’s heating system reported a maximum snow depth of 5 cm.
