Category Archives: WCMY News
New internet provider could be coming to Streator
A fiber internet company in southern Illinois wants to come to Streator. City Manager David Plyman says Clearwave Fiber wants to build a business to provide fiber internet. They are already providing ...
Oct 21, 2022 Karl Baron / CC
Ottawa Grade Schools applying for grant to help pay for new intercom system
The Ottawa Elementary School District could get up to $50,000 from a grant through the Illinois State Board of Education. Supt. Michelle Lee says some of the money from the matching grant would be use...
Oct 20, 2022
Next court date in bow and arrow murder case set
A November trial date is still possible for the Varna man accused of shooting and killing 38-year old Joshua Scaman with a razor-tipped arrow at an Illinois Valley Community College parking lot in 201...
Oct 20, 2022
Ottawa to start long permitting process for second sewer plant
Ottawa City Hall is hiring Fehr Graham Engineering to get things started for a second sewer treatment plant. Commissioner Tom Ganiere says there'll be a lot of paperwork. The city hasn't decided where...
Oct 20, 2022
Contracts approved for Streator ambulance service in neighboring areas
Streator's city council last night approved three agreements to provide ambulance service to areas outside the city. One of the hardest to negotiate was with Reading Township Fire Protection District....
Oct 20, 2022
More work still needed for street realignment and extension projects in Marseilles
More time is needed before the water and sewer extension to Interstate 80 and the Commercial and Broadway Street realignment project in Marseilles are done. City Engineer Mike Etscheid says the pipes ...
Oct 20, 2022 WCMY file photo of the Main-Broadway-Commercial streets intersection before realignment work.
Frustration about lack of work at Maytag Building and Kaskaskia Hotel in LaSalle continues
There is still frustration from LaSalle aldermen about the future of the Maytag Building and the Kaskaskia Hotel. Alderman Jim Bacidore said Monday that he called a possible contractor that was brough...
Oct 19, 2022
Sunrise Rotary gives 70 books in biography series to Reddick Library
Seventy books from the Penguin Random House Who Was series are being prepared to go on the shelves at Reddick Library. The Ottawa Sunrise Rotary club donated them for the Rotary district's "Nothing Re...
Oct 19, 2022 Left to right: Ottawa Sunrise Rotary President Rick Scott, Rotarian Nathalie Schmidt, and librarians Annette Kohn and Rachel Mason. (Picture from Ottawa Sunrise Rotary)
Appeal denied in chokehold death case
An appellate court says no to dismissing a five-year old involuntary manslaughter case from LaSalle County. Third District Appellate Court judges say 48-year old Mason T. Shannon can't claim double je...
Oct 19, 2022
Design work beginning for Green St. improvement
Ottawa's city council says three culverts will be enough to let water flow under Green St. The city's having the street raised so it can stay open during floods. City Engineer Tom Duttlinger says with...
Oct 19, 2022 WCMY file photo of Green St. in Ottawa during a flood. The city plans to raise the street above the floodplain and have a passage to let water flow under it.