Category Archives: WCMY News
New law aims to end problem of smoke detectors with dead or missing batteries
Starting January 1st, new smoke detectors installed in Illinois homes must be the kind with permanently installed batteries. Ottawa Fire Dept. Capt. Kevin Theis says the kind with replaceable batterie...
Dec 20, 2022 Horizontal photo of home smoke detector with white ceiling background
Oglesby mayor says he disappointed after IVCC turns down deal for solar wind farm
A proposed project from the city of Oglesby to build a one-megawatt solar wind farm for Illinois Valley Community College has fallen through. In August last year, Oglesby Mayor Dominic Rivara wrote a ...
Dec 20, 2022
Winter storm watch Thursday night to Saturday morning
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch from 6pm Thursday to 6am Saturday. Falling and blowing snow could make it hard or impossible to see where you're going when driving. Power ...
Dec 20, 2022 Dawn Scranton / CC
After $8,000 check donated, over $91,000 was raised for this year's Freezin for a Reezin
After an $8,275 check from Nucor Tubular Products in Marseilles was donated Monday for Freezin for a Reezin, the total raised is now $91,155. The money includes both food and monetary donations. $73,8...
Dec 19, 2022 From left to right: WCMY Station Manager Jay Leseure, Ottawa Community Food Basket Executive Director Marissa Vicich, Jim Crenshaw with Nucor, Rick Cook with Nucor, and WCMY General Sales Manager Tammy Sondgeroth
IV PADS shelters expected to exceed last year's record year of people helped
The amount of people being served at both Illinois Valley PADS locations is on track to exceed last year's numbers. Executive Director Carol Alcorn says last year the shelter served a record 371 men, ...
Dec 19, 2022
Warm Neighbors Cool Friends provides help to those making too much for LIHEAP eligibility
There's a non-profit group that works with Ameren Illinois to help people who make too much to qualify for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. It's called Warm Neighbors Cool Friends. The o...
Dec 19, 2022
Two new scholarships announced at IVCC
Illinois Valley Community College continues adding scholarships. The Epley-Wright Scholarship honors Joyce and Clarence Epley who used to live in Granville. Six of the couple's nine children went to I...
Dec 19, 2022
IVAC announces this year's 40 Under 40 recipients
Recipients for the Illinois Valley Area Chamber of Commerce's 40 Under 40 initiative have been announced. The first group is made up of representatives across the Illinois Valley that make an extraord...
Dec 18, 2022
Deer hunting figures up for this year's firearm season compared to last year
The state's two-part firearm deer hunting season figures are up from last year. Statewide, almost 77,000 deer were shot this year, compared to more than 70,000 last year. Local figures show increases ...
Dec 18, 2022
One and a half year prison sentence given to Ottawa man involved in January 6th riot
An Ottawa man was sentenced to a year and a half in prison Friday for his role in the January 6th U.S Capitol riot. 28-year old Matthew Capsel pleaded guilty to the charges against him in September. A...
Dec 17, 2022 Images of Mathew Capsel from the federal court file on the case against him