In case you missed it in The Sun the week of June 9, 2025
Jun. 14—The following stories from this week appeared on
www.jamestownsun.com
and in The Jamestown Sun.
The Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corp. unanimously
approved funding
on Monday, June 9, to help an existing child care center with its expansion.
The funding request from Explorer's Academy Jamestown LLC was for $10,000 through the JSDC's Daycare Expansion Assistance Program that helps new child care startups and existing remodeling projects increase capacity.
The city's share will be $8,000 with the county's share being $2,000.
Explorer's Academy Jamestown LLC, which does business as Explorers Academy, is expanding its child care center that provides care for infants to school-aged children, said Alyssa Looysen, business development director at JSDC. She said the expansion gives Explorers Academy flexibility to grow its after-school care program and its current capacity of other age groups.
The number of calls for service to the Jamestown Police Department in 2024
were down by about 400
when compared to 2023 but that was mostly attributed to a winter with little snowfall, according to Scott Edinger, Jamestown chief of police.
The Jamestown Police Department had more than 14,600 calls for service in 2024 compared to around 15,000 in 2022 and 2023, according to the 2024 Jamestown Police Department annual report.
Edinger said one of the biggest contributors to the reduction in calls for service is snow-related towing on emergency routes.
"We were down more than 300 of those last year because the weather was so good," he said.
He said the number of motorist assist calls were also down when compared to 2023 because of the winter. The Jamestown Police Department responded to 122 motorist assist calls in 2024 compared to 182 in 2023 and 201 in 2022.
The Friends of the James River Valley Library System is working to
complete a fundraising campaign
that will be used to update patron computers and purchase audio-enabled children's books.
The Friends of the James River Valley Library System has a $25,000 fundraising goal. The nonprofit organization has raised about $15,000 of that $25,000 goal, said Katie Webster, treasurer of the Friends of the James River Valley Library System.
The Friends of the James River Valley Library System is an independent, nonprofit volunteer organization that works to further the educational and informational needs of the community through support of the library system, according to its website.
Joe Rector, library system director, said the current computers are becoming obsolete. The current computers don't meet the requirements for Windows 11.
Windows 10 will reach the end of support on Oct. 14, according to Microsoft's website.
The James River Valley Library System Board of Directors will need to work on
ensuring all bills are paid and separate assets
between the city of Jamestown and Stutsman County as part of the dissolution process, according to a letter to the board from Abbagail Geroux, the library system's attorney.
The Jamestown City Council approved in October providing a two-year notice to the Stutsman County Commission that the city of Jamestown will withdraw from the memorandum of agreement to provide joint library services. The city says the county is not providing its fair share of financial contributions to provide joint library services.
The library board unanimously approved in March a preference to have the city of Jamestown and Stutsman County continue to offer joint library services, said Sarah Hellekson, city administrator who is a county-appointed member to the library board, at the library board meeting on Wednesday, June 11.
Written consent and approval from the city of Jamestown and Stutsman County will be needed to either continue providing joint library services or to dissolve and have the city provide library services with a contract with the county, Geroux wrote. She wrote that no further action can be taken toward those two options without the written consent and approval of both entities.
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