Category Archives: WCMY News
Record number of people and new venue for 2023 Black and White Ball
The 2023 Black and White Ball has a new location this year. Starved Rock Country Regional Center Marketing Manager Jennifer Kirkman says it will be at the Auditorium Ballroom in LaSalle instead of the...
Feb 23, 2023 Image from the event's Facebook page.
Early voting begins for election ending April 4
Today's the first day for early voting across most of Illinois. It'll happen at the Etna Rd. courthouse in Ottawa from 8am to 4:30pm on weekdays. The County Clerk will also hold special hours for it o...
Feb 23, 2023
18th annual IVCC Edible Car Contest gets record amount of cars
A record 34 edible cars were created for the 18th annual Illinois Valley Community College Edible Car Contest. Computer Design Program Coordinator Dorene Data hosted the contest. The cars raced on a d...
Feb 23, 2023 Some of the high school and middle school cars built for the 2023 Edible Car Contest at Illinois Valley Community College.
Recorder fees going up statewide for program that hasn't benefited LaSalle County
Paying $8 more to file a deed or mortgage at the county courthouse may be a drop in the bucket to someone who just bought a house for $150,000. But LaSalle County Recorder of Deeds Karen Miller would ...
Feb 22, 2023
Ottawa to replace historic looking Washington Park lights
Thirty-four lights in and around Ottawa's Washington Park will be replaced. The city will spend $100,000 from the downtown tax increment financing fund. Commissioner Marla Pearson says the city's spen...
Feb 22, 2023 A historic looking light in Ottawa's Washington Square
Bad transformer switch blamed for Oglesby outage; resident chastises lack of maintenance
A bad transformer switch caused the city-wide power outage in Oglesby last Wednesday night. Electricians repaired it Monday and put the city back on the main transformer Tuesday morning. But an angry ...
Feb 22, 2023
Ottawa Elementary School District purchases used school bus
The Ottawa Elementary School District approved spending $59,500 on a used school bus last night. It will be used to help take students with disabilities to school. Supt. Michelle Lee says it's not lik...
Feb 22, 2023
Constellation spending $800 million to upgrade two nuclear power plants
Upgrades will be made at the Byron and Braidwood nuclear power plants. Constellation Energy says it'll increase generating capacity by 135 megawatts in the next six years with an $800 million investme...
Feb 21, 2023 Constellation Energy picture of a nuclear reactor core during refueling
Ottawa woman named in gunshot wound incident
LaSalle County Coroner Rich Ploch says a 20-year-old Ottawa woman died from a gunshot wound. Alexandria R. Davis was named the victim. She died at St. Elizabeth's Hospital after being taken from the 1...
Feb 21, 2023
LaSalle County mobile tax bills mailed out
LaSalle County mobile home tax bills have been mailed out. County Treasurer James Spelich says residents can pay at the treasurer's office at the Etna Rd. Courthouse in Ottawa between 8am to 4:30pm us...
Feb 21, 2023