Category Archives: WCMY News
HS Scholarship offered through Sheriff's office; Mediacom scholarship deadline extended
High school students can get a $500 college scholarship from LaSalle County Sheriff Adam Diss's office. You must be enrolled as a full time student for the 2023-24 school year, be an Illinois resident...
Jan 22, 2023
St. Margaret's Health Peru closing; services are being moved to Spring Valley
St. Margaret's Health Peru, the former Illinois Valley Community Hospital, will close next Saturday morning, January 28. SMP Health says it's temporarily suspending services there because it can't get...
Jan 21, 2023
Possible updates to be made on Peru's gaming ordinance
The city of Peru wants to update its gaming ordinance. City Attorney Scott Schweickert says there's very little regulation on it now because it's outdated. The plan could make changes under the Illino...
Jan 21, 2023 DEAR / Unsplash
St. Rep. Yednock already has bills filed in new legislative term
Four bills that Ottawa Democratic St. Rep. Lance Yednock filed during the second day of the new legislative term concern nurses, military vehicles, farm leases, and school funding. One bill would let ...
Jan 21, 2023 Lance Yednock,
Illinois House of Representatives picture
Some production resumes at LaSalle Carus site
Carus LLC says it's making and shipping out phosphates at the LaSalle facility where there was a fire last week. Phosphates are made in a different part of the building than the one that burned. They'...
Jan 20, 2023
United Way Ottawa chapter has emergency food and shelter money
The United Way of Eastern LaSalle County is getting $57,213 from the Department of Homeland Security for emergency food and shelter. For the next month, the agency will take applications from local so...
Jan 20, 2023
Judge orders man jailed without bond to halt growing list of charges
An Ottawa man has been ticketed or arrested four times since December 3rd and that's too many times for Judge Cynthia Raccuglia. Especially since 33-year old Anthony T. Sustek is still facing other ch...
Jan 20, 2023 LaSalle County Jail photo of Anthony Sustek
Weekly COVID report: No new deaths, current and new cases down again
Recoveries outnumbered new COVID-19 cases in LaSalle County for a second week in a row. The LaSalle County Health Department says there were 100 new cases and 162 recoveries this week. There have been...
Jan 20, 2023
Ottawa getting another Morton Arboretum grant for tree planting
Ottawa's getting another grant from the Morton Arboretum for planting trees. Mayor Dan Aussem says they could be planted just about anywhere in the city where there aren't many trees or where some wer...
Jan 20, 2023 Trees lining Boyce Memorial Dr. in Ottawa were planted in recent years with grant funding.
Ottawa hopes to start new downtown parking rules by summer
If Ottawa City Hall's downtown parking plan takes effect, business employees will be asked to get parking tags for reserved spots in city-owned lots by this summer. Police Chief Brent Roalson says eac...
Jan 20, 2023 This is what Ottawa's parking tags may look like. A driver can hook it on the rearview mirror so the parking enforcement officer can see it through the windshield.