Category Archives: WCMY News
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
Open Table United Church of Christ in Ottawa having Christmas dinner Christmas Day
If you need a place to go on Christmas Day, Open Table United Church of Christ in Ottawa is inviting anyone to their Christmas Dinner. It starts on Sunday at noon with food including ham, roast turkey...
Dec 17, 2022
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