Category Archives: WCMY News
An Aussem, er, awesome experience
For Kiwanis Club Kids Day at the Ottawa City Council meeting last night, Sawyer Ernat of Marquette Academy played the role of Mayor Dan Aussem. He called it an awesome experience. Or did he mean an Au...
Nov 02, 2022 Students from Marquette Academy and Ottawa Elementary conduct the Ottawa City Council meeting November 1, 2022
14th Annual Honor Guard Vigil starts in Ottawa Friday
The 14th Annual Honor Guard Vigil starts this Friday in Ottawa. John Duback with the American Legion Post 33 says the legion and other groups will take 96 fifteen minute shifts in front of Memorial Pl...
Nov 01, 2022
Ottawa Chamber to hold job fair this week
About two dozen employers with hundreds of jobs to fill will be at a job fair in Ottawa Thursday afternoon. It'll be from 1pm to 5pm at the Salvation Army at Chestnut and Madison streets. Ottawa Area ...
Nov 01, 2022 Got Credit / CC
LaSalle City Council approves proclamation supporting SAFE-T Act lawsuit
The city of LaSalle is supporting the county joining the lawsuit to stop the SAFE-T Act from ending cash bail. The city council approved a proclamation last night. They are the first city in the count...
Nov 01, 2022
Nuclear plant owner wants to extend licenses, not close plants
Things have changed so much in two years, the owner of the nuclear power plants in Illinois wants to run some of them longer instead of closing them. Exelon Generation said two years ago it would clos...
Oct 31, 2022
LaSalle Station owner and 11 taxing districts reach new assessment agreement
The company that owns LaSalle Station and 11 taxing districts have agreed on how much the company should pay in property taxes on the nuclear power plant for the next five years. LaSalle Station will ...
Oct 31, 2022 WCMY file photo of LaSalle Station nuclear power generation station
"Maid" given away for IVCC's part in One Book One College
Illinois Valley Community College bought 200 copies of Maid by Stephanie Land. The college is giving away copies for Domestic Violence Awareness Month for this year's One Book One College program. Lib...
Oct 31, 2022
Hall High School wins statewide Pork and Pigskins Competiton
According to judges from the Illinois High School Association, Hall High School in Spring Valley has the best concession stand pork chop sandwich. It was announced last week that the school won the Po...
Oct 31, 2022
Up to 2,900 affected by early morning power outage
Up to 2,900 Ameren customers in the Ottawa, Naplate, and Marseilles area had a power outage this morning. A spokeswoman says as of about 7:30 this morning, there were still 165 customers waiting for t...
Oct 31, 2022 F Delventhal / CC
Streator library dome restoration out for bid
Bids are being taken at the Streator public library for restoration work on the building's dome. The library was built in 1903. Since 1905, a mural has been on the dome. It's the work of artist Gustav...
Oct 30, 2022 WCMY file photo of the Streator library dome taken March 20, 2020