Category Archives: WCMY News
Local all women investing club gets profile in magazine
An investing magazine recently profiled and critiqued an all women investing club based in Ottawa. Monday Morning Money Makers president Caroline Campaigne says there are 13 members. The group's been ...
Apr 11, 2023
Ottawa Elementary School Board hears presentations for possible Community Solar Program
The Ottawa Elementary School Board heard from two companies Wednesday morning who want to help them start a Community Solar Project. Representatives from Forefront Power out of San Francisco, CA and T...
Apr 11, 2023 Karen and Brad Emerson / CC
Peru Police Officers honored for saving another woman's life
Another woman was saved from a drug overdose by the Peru Police Department. Police Chief Sarah Raymond says police were called to a residence on March 11th after a 911 call about a woman who wasn't br...
Apr 11, 2023 Peru Police Officer's Bill Sommer and Hunter Wright were honored with lifesaving awards for saving a woman on March 11th.
Year-long celebration of I&M Canal's 175th anniversary begins with Lincoln talk
If you think you saw Abraham Lincoln talking to a small crowd in Ottawa's Washington Park yesterday afternoon, you were seeing the beginning of a year of celebration. The Canal Corridor Association is...
Apr 11, 2023 Abraham Lincoln, portrayed by Kevin J. Wood, in Ottawa's Washington Park April 10, 2023
Wildcat Canyon fall victim identified
LaSalle County Coroner Rich Ploch says the woman found dead at the bottom of Wildcat Canyon in Starved Rock State Park last week was 20-year old Gabriella J. Paulsen of Addison. Ploch says she died fr...
Apr 10, 2023
Marseilles brick maker to close in June; 38 employees being laid off
The coming closure of the Glen-Gery brickyard in Marseilles appears to be from a quick decision. The company advertised job openings there in February and March. But some of those postings are now mar...
Apr 10, 2023 woodleywonderworks / CC
St. Sen. Bennett says Illinoisans deserve tax relief at the grocery store and for having children
St. Sen. Tom Bennett says Illinois is one of the top ten states when it comes to tax burdens. He wants the legislature to pass tax relief. He's speaking in favor of a bill to make the grocery sales ta...
Apr 10, 2023 Now St. Sen. Tom Bennett was an Ill. House member until last month. He fills the vacancy created when Jason Barickman resigned from the Senate. That leaves a vacancy to fill in the House.
Bunting wants to let sex trafficking victims seal their criminal records
St. Rep. Jason Bunting says one of the most important bills in the legislature is one that would help human trafficking victims. Some have criminal records because they were forced into prostitution a...
Apr 10, 2023
Numerous brush and field fires keep local fire fighters busy over Easter weekend
Field and brush fires kept fire fighters across the area busy over the weekend. In Ottawa, there was a fire along the Fox River between Norris Dr. and the CSX Railroad track Saturday afternoon. Fire f...
Apr 10, 2023 Ottawa Firefighters Local 523 picture of the burn area Saturday, April 8, 2023, from Facebook
Maj. Gen. Toftoy program to air April 22 and 23
A year ago, Larry Potash of WGN-TV visited the local Norsk Museum to do a feature on Maj. Gen. Holger Toftoy. The program will air the weekend of April 22. Toftoy studied missiles and was one of the i...
Apr 10, 2023 U.S. Army picture of Maj. Gen. Holger Toftoy holding a model missile