Category Archives: WCMY News
Illinois Alzheimer's Association planning for September Walk in Ottawa
Alzheimer's disease affects about 230,000 people in Illinois right now. To raise awareness, Illinois Alzheimer's Association Senior Walk Manager Kayli Lavelle says the organization is already planning...
Mar 15, 2023 Alzheimer's Association Illinois Chapter / CC
Future community meeting possible on Ottawa Elementary School maintenance projects
The Ottawa Elementary School Board will be looking for public input on spending. The district has several maintenance projects in every school with some being more important than others. Board Member ...
Mar 15, 2023
South side Ottawa fire claims a life
Someone died in an apartment fire on Ottawa's south side this morning. Fire Chief Brian Bressner says a person found in a living room in a five-unit apartment building died at OSF St. Elizabeth Hospit...
Mar 15, 2023
Green St. to be closed Thursday to prepare for major project
Green St. from Chapel St. to Canal Rd. will be closed Thursday for tree removal. Ottawa City Commissioner Marla Pearson says that's so a contractor can remove trees ahead of the project to elevate Gre...
Mar 15, 2023 WCMY file photo of Green St. in Ottawa during a flood. The city plans to raise the street above the floodplain and have a passage to let water flow under it.
Arts of Starved Rock Country fund application period opens
If you represent an arts organization that might need money this year, you can start applying to the Arts of Starved Rock Country Fund. Starved Rock Country Community Foundation President Pamela Becke...
Mar 15, 2023
Election judges still needed in LaSalle County
LaSalle County Clerk Jennifer Ebner needs about four dozen more election judges. She has a lot more Democrats than Republicans on her list now, so to balance the numbers, she'd like 40 Republicans and...
Mar 14, 2023
Longtime Ottawa resident honored in hometown Grandview for long career as lawyer and judge
A building in Grandview, Illinois is now named for Justice Robert L. Carter of Ottawa. Carter grew up in the village now surrounded by the state's capital city. The village's municipal building is ren...
Mar 14, 2023
SMH closure affecting Peru Fire Department; mayor says city hasn't forgotten
Peru Fire Chief Jeff King says the closure of St. Margaret's Hospital is staring to affect the fire department. He told the city council last Saturday a couple was ringing the fire station doorbell be...
Mar 14, 2023
Ottawa mayoral candidates questioned on TIF's, outsourcing, tourism, canal, more
Is Ottawa borrowing too much money? The three candidates for mayor answered that question at a candidate forum at Central School tonight. Robb Hasty says yes. He says there's been a rush to spend mone...
Mar 13, 2023 Ottawa mayoral candidates, left to right: incumbent Dan Aussem, Len Newell, Robb Hasty
LaSalle County buying Oglesby building for coroner's office
LaSalle County Coroner Rich Ploch asked for more office space and he'll get it in Oglesby. The County Board today approved buying a former medical building for $250,000 from St. Margaret's Health. Plo...
Mar 13, 2023