In case you missed it in The Sun the week of Oct. 30, 2023
Nov. 4—The following stories from this week appeared on
and in The Jamestown Sun.
The Jamestown Finance and Legal Committee is looking to have the Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corp.
market and sell city-owned commercial properties
, according to Mayor Dwaine Heinrich.
The properties are located at 1110 Railroad Drive E and between 3rd Street and 5th Street Southeast and 11th Avenue and 12th Avenue Southeast. Heinrich said the property along Railroad Drive East is in the process of getting replatted.
The Finance and Legal Committee unanimously recommended approval on Tuesday, Oct. 24, to have the JSDC consider taking on the project to market and sell the properties similar to what it did with the I-94 Business Park in southwest Jamestown.
Heinrich said the sale of the property should be done similar to the JSDC's I-94 Business Park where people who purchase the land have two years to build on it or it would revert back to the JSDC for the original purchase price.
Cornerstone Baptist Church in Jamestown
launched Christian radio station KCBJ 90.7 FM
.
The first day on air was Sept. 30.
KCBJ is an officially licensed Federal Communications Commission radio station in Jamestown. There isn't an official name for the radio station yet, but it is called Cornerstone Broadcasting in the official paperwork to get it launched.
The radio station operates 24 hours a day. The radio station is 500 watts and can be heard in a 25- to 30-mile radius from Jamestown.
KCBJ 90.7 includes music, news and local weather at the top of the hour, children's programming on Saturday, "UNSHACKLED!" and Christian science research, he said. He said the station includes a fair amount of bluegrass gospel and has more of a spiritual sound versus a secular sound.
The radio station also broadcasts Cornerstone Baptist Church's services on Sundays at 10:30 a.m and 6 p.m.
Siblings from Jamestown
have authored multiple books
but they differ on why they became authors and the types of books they have published.
Dorothy Carlson, of North Lemmon, South Dakota, recently published the first of the five-part "Empire of Ash & Song" series, "To Bind Fire." The second book of the series is expected to be published this spring while the third is planned for Christmas 2024.
Carlson, whose author name is D.E. Carlson, said "To Bind Fire" is about a fire elemental who is sent away to safety by her father because of the trouble going on in their empire.
Carlson has also published a novella — "Cassandra's Dragon" — that is available for free at
by signing up for her newsletter. She said "Cassandra's Dragon" is not in print but will be someday due to high demand.
Stephen Nyberg, who resides in Jamestown, published his first graphic novel, "Chet Chetterson's Adventures Book 1: Diets Are Doom," when he was 15 years old in 2015.
Nyberg has published 10 graphic novels since he was 15 years old. His works include the series "Chet Chetterson's Adventures" and "The Randy Allan Mystery Series."
Nyberg said he's working on book collections of daily comic strips that he's writing for the series he is working on now. He said each one will be a little less than 150 pages.
"That's one year worth of the comic strips which are almost every day," he said.
The future of veterans services in the state
could be having regional offices to take care of veterans
from multiple counties because of a smaller veteran population in the state, according to David Bratton, Stutsman County veterans service officer.
"You see that in a lot of different agencies already in the state — counties regionalizing just because of convenience and it just makes sense," he said.
Bratton said the combination of Vietnam veterans passing away and not as many people serving in the U.S. means there is a smaller veteran population in the state.
Bratton told the Stutsman County Commission in February that the county Veterans Service Office is seeing more veterans from outside the county. At the time, he said conversations need to start with other surrounding counties to see if there is interest in potentially entering into an agreement for Stutsman County to take care of the veteran-related services.
Since March, Bratton said he's seen 22 veterans as of Oct. 25 from counties other than Stutsman, including LaMoure, Barnes, Ramsey and Foster. He said he's been tracking new veterans from outside Stutsman County.
"It may look like it's just five to six (veterans from an individual county), but when you have to go through the process of building claims, it's time consuming and that's on top of Stutsman County's veteran population," he said. "Stutsman County has 1,413 veterans that are just Stutsman but that's not factoring in all the other veterans that come to see us."
Bratton said many other veterans from outside the county have come to the Veterans Service Office since his predecessor, Warren Tobin, was here.
Vehicles can only be parked
for 48 hours instead of 72 hours
on streets in Jamestown which helps with snow removal, according to Lt. Nick Hardy, with the Jamestown Police Department.
"It switched now to the winter rules," he said.
Hardy said Jamestown police officers are marking tires for 48-hour parking and tagging trailers, which, along with campers, cannot be parked on city streets after Oct. 31.
"That's also, of course, for snow removal reasons," he said.
Hardy said police officers put a tag on trailers or campers notifying owners to move them off of city streets.
"Those usually, we give 24 hours and then we check back if those are not impounded," said Maj. Justin Blinsky, assistant chief of police. "Those ordinances are pretty specific in detail."
Section 21-16-04.1 of the code of the city of Jamestown says it is lawful to park motor homes, recreational vehicles, camper trailers, other trailers of any type, except semitrailers, on a city street between April 1 through Oct. 31.
Section 21-16-15 of the city code says vehicles in residential districts cannot exceed 48 hours of parking from Nov. 1 through March 31. From April 1 through Oct. 31, vehicles can park for 72 hours.
Applied Digital Corp. has broken ground on its
first 100-megawatt high-performance computing facility
that will be located about 1 mile west of Ellendale.
The announcement was made Tuesday, Oct. 31, on Applied Digital's website.
The facility is designed and built for artificial intelligence workloads such as generative AI, natural language processing, machine learning, rendering and traditional high-performance computing applications.
The new facility will be located immediately north of the current data center that went online earlier this year.
The new facility at Ellendale will be a 342,000-square-foot building that will provide ultra-low cost and highly-efficient liquid-cooled infrastructure for high-performance computing applications, according to a press release on Applied Digital's website. The press release says Applied Digital's data center design allows it to accommodate almost 50,000 of NVIDIA's H100 SXM class graphics processing units in a single parallel compute cluster.
The new facility is expected to be completed by late 2024 or early 2025.
