Category Archives: WCMY News
Snowmen the theme for this year's Ottawa High holiday cards
If you get an Ottawa High School holiday card this year, it will have a snowman on it. Maybe it will be the one designed by Mackenzie Allen, holding a star with a varsity letter O on it. Or it could b...
Dec 17, 2022 Ottawa High School holiday cards for 2023 designed by (left to right) Olivia Trolinger, Celina Higgins, and Mackenzie Allen
Weekly COVID report: New and current cases up; one additional death
A man in his 100's is the 505th person to die so far from COVID-19 in LaSalle County according to the health department's weekly report. New coronavirus cases also outnumbered recoveries new cases for...
Dec 16, 2022
Local union labor to be used to build solar wind farm in southwest LaSalle County
Local labor will be used to build the 80-megawatt solar wind farm in southwest LaSalle County. The Illinois Valley Building Trades and the Hickory Wind Project have announced a Letter of Intent to use...
Dec 16, 2022
Cong. Adam Kinzinger says American Democracy isn't functioning as part of farewell speech to Congress
Cong. Adam Kinzinger says although he didn't have a family at the time, he wanted to leave the country better off that what he had inherited. But unfortunately in good conscious, he says he didn't do ...
Dec 16, 2022
Nuclear engineering professor with Ottawa link says Livermore fusion experiment is the real thing
A nuclear physics professor with ties to Ottawa says this week's fusion announcement isn't what some people are making it out to be. Ed Morse of the Univ. of California at Berkeley says the National N...
Dec 15, 2022
Two new judges appointed to Third District Appellate Court
There are two new judges on the Third District Appellate Court in Ottawa. Judges Linda Davenport and Adrienne Albrecht are filling seats after Justice Mary K O'Brien was elected to the Illinois Suprem...
Dec 15, 2022
Next IVCC president to be appointed Tuesday next week
The special meeting to name Illinois Valley Community College's next president will be Tuesday at 5:30pm. After a closed session, the trustees are expected to announce that Tracy Morris will become th...
Dec 15, 2022 IVCC President-Elect Tracy Morris. Photo courtesy of IVCC.
Streator council to reconsider TIF request for Arby's
Before an Arby's restaurant is built where the Gautschy's Corner gas station used to be, the developer needs the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency's approval. IEPA wants oil contamination from ...
Dec 15, 2022
City of LaSalle receives grant to help with curbside recycling program
A $55,500 grant is being given to the city of LaSalle by Recycling Partnership Inc. The city is getting the grant because they are giving residents recycling bins. The city council approved an agreeme...
Dec 14, 2022 Sigmund / Unsplash
Solar energy site allowed on farm east of Grand Ridge
A 77-acre solar power farm will be developed two miles east of Grand Ridge. The LaSalle County Board approved the special use permit this week for Ted Trager. Seven members objected to good farm soil ...
Dec 14, 2022 American Public Power Association / Unsplash