Category Archives: WCMY News
New Prison Education Program started at Sheridan Correctional Center
There's a new education program being taught at Sheridan Correctional Center. IDOC Educational Program Manager Maria Miller says nineteen students from Lewis University in Romeoville could earn a bach...
Jan 26, 2023 Sheridan Correctional Center
Single vehicle crash east of Wedron claims Serena man's life
A Serena man is dead after a fatal crash Wednesday morning. LaSalle County Coroner Rich Ploch says 27-year old Sean C. Stoewsand crashed his vehicle near the intersection of N. 3450th and 2175th Rd. e...
Jan 25, 2023
Ottawa High School Hall of Fame: Coree Woltering
It's fair to say Coree Woltering ran for his induction into the Ottawa High School Hall of Fame. The 2008 graduate excelled in track and field and cross country when he was in high school. After high ...
Jan 25, 2023 Coree Woltering, OHS Hall of Fame photo
LaSalle to negotiate contract for water tower maintenance
LaSalle City Engineer Brian Brown says an important project for residents will be negotiated by the city. Instead of bonding out a project to repaint the city's water tower north of Utica, the city wi...
Jan 25, 2023 Photo from the LaSalle Count GIS website.
Bond set for Streator man accused of attacking police officer
A public defender is appointed to represent a Streator man who was shot in Streator's Central Park Monday morning. Thirty-one year old Jacob R. Thompson needs $5,000 to bond out of jail. That's 10% of...
Jan 25, 2023 Jacob R. Thompson, LaSalle County jail picture
OSF Healthcare to have two job fairs
OSF Healthcare will have two job fairs at Grand Bear Lodge in Utica. The first is Monday next week (January 30) from 2pm to 6pm. The next is two weeks later (Monday, February 13) during the same hours...
Jan 25, 2023
Low flying helicopter to cross area on mapping mission
The U.S. Geological Survey says there's nothing to worry about when a helicopter flies just a few hundred feet from the ground with a hoop hanging below it. That helicopter is part of a mapping survey...
Jan 25, 2023 U.S. Geological Survey picture of the helicopter and radio detection hoop that will map the Illinois River basin
Sports schedules scrambled with Interstate Eight Conference losing two members
Two schools are leaving the Interstate Eight sports conference. Plano and Sandwich will join the Kishwaukee River Conference to put their teams up against teams from schools of similar student body si...
Jan 25, 2023 Kari / CC
Grants to pay for NCAT maintenance garage work and wifi on buses
North Central Area Transit will offer its passengers wifi. The state is giving a $65,000 grant for it. Ottawa City Commissioner Wayne Eichelkraut says the bus drivers can use it too to communicate to ...
Jan 24, 2023
Peru gets record annual retail sales over one year
A record $713 million in annual retail sales was amounted in the city of Peru. The data was collected starting on October 1st, 2021 and finished on September 30th, 2022. Director of Economic Developme...
Jan 24, 2023