In case you missed it in The Sun the week of March 4, 2024

Mar. 9—The following stories from this week appeared on

www.jamestownsun.com

and in The Jamestown Sun.

One North Dakota family is hoping for

help in finding their missing sister

.

Breeanna Ward, 27, was reported missing on Feb. 28. She was last seen in Williston, North Dakota, where she lives with her boyfriend. Ward hasn’t contacted friends or family despite them reaching out.

Though Ward has posted to Facebook, her sister, Chelsey Francis of Jamestown, believes

another individual is controlling the account

.

Francis and a small search team are heading to Williston this weekend to hang posters and find answers.

NextEra Energy Resources Development has

accepted loan terms

under the state’s Clean Sustainable Energy Authority Fertilizer Development Loan Program, the North Dakota Industrial Commission announced Monday, March 4.

Prairie Horizon Energy Solutions has declined the loan terms but still plans to proceed with its plant near Dickinson.

The fertilizer loan was authorized by House Bill 1546 during the November 2023 special session, which required the production of hydrogen “by the electrolysis of water” and directed the CSEA to forgive the loan “upon completion of construction of the fertilizer production facility.”

At its Jan. 24 meeting, the Industrial Commission approved a Clean Sustainable Energy Authority recommendation to authorize $50 million in loan funding to NextEra and $75 million to Prairie Horizon for fertilizer production facilities in Stutsman and Stark counties, respectively. The Clean Sustainable Energy Authority recommendation also provided for an applicant to receive the full $125 million if the other applicant were to decline funding.

The Jamestown City Council approved in a 3-0 vote

establishing a committee of nonelected members

to review the memorandum of agreement with Stutsman County on providing joint library services.

Councilmen Dan Buchanan and Brian Kamlitz were not present at the meeting on Monday, March 4.

The committee would include five to seven members who are not elected officials.

” … (the) intent here is not for this committee to look at funding, not to look at library operations, not to look at where should the library go next but only the document itself and is the document in the proper format because this has been copied since 2005,” Mayor Dwaine Heinrich said. “Is there anything that’s changed that’s out of sync with current state law, so on and so forth or with whatever rules the state library has in place.”

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