Category Archives: WCMY News
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
Attempted murder parolee in trouble again on drug and weapons charges
Semi-automatic weapons, ammunition, and body armor were allegedly found in a Rutland home by LaSalle County and Woodford County Sheriff's Sunday during a search warrant. LaSalle County Sheriff Adam Di...
Dec 14, 2022
Streator gets housing rehab grant
A $500,000 state grant going to Streator will pay for housing rehabilitation for lower income home owners in a qualifying neighborhood. Mayor Tara Bedei says the home owners in that neighborhood will ...
Dec 14, 2022
Ottawa High Hall of Fame names 2023 inductees
A doctor, a broadcaster, and a marathon runner are the individual inductees for the 2023 Ottawa High School Hall of Fame. Dr. David Manigold is class of 1969. Bill Nevin graduated in 1982. And Coree W...
Dec 14, 2022
Man in hospital after police chase ends near Streator
UPDATE Wednesday evening, December 14: The LaSalle County Sheriff's Department says a Chicago man is at a hospital in Peoria. Dwayne Corley was taken from the crash scene at Illinois 18 and E. 12th Rd...
Dec 13, 2022
LaSalle ordinance requiring lights on bikes already exists
It turns out that an ordinance requiring lights on bicycles in LaSalle already exists. At the last city council meeting, Deputy City Clerk Brent Bader showed the city council what information he had a...
Dec 13, 2022 Himiway Bikes / Unsplash
Karen Fisher honored for four decades of school board service
Karen Fisher has been a school board member for 41 of the past 43 years. The first eight years were at Milton Pope School. The rest have been at Ottawa High. During her two years when she wasn't a boa...
Dec 13, 2022 Karen Fisher, Ottawa High School Board member
County board chairman checked in appointment to insurance trust committee
A majority of LaSalle County Board members today didn't go along with Chairman Don Jensen's idea of naming Craig Emmett to the insurance trust committee. Emmett would have replaced Jill Bernal. After ...
Dec 12, 2022 County Board Chairman Don Jensen.
LaSalle County class ranking allows unincorporated residents to continue to save 10% on flood insurance policy
LaSalle County residents in unincorporated areas can save 10% on their flood insurance policies. That's because the county continues to participate in the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Communi...
Dec 12, 2022
New job creation milestone passed by business development center
Amy Lambert at the Small Business Development Center at the Starved Rock Country Alliance says this is a new milestone--100 jobs created in one calendar year. That 100th job is one of the seven at RPS...
Dec 12, 2022 Customers inside RPS Toys during the Small Business Development Center's 100th job celebration Saturday, December 10, 2022