Category Archives: WCMY News
Some Marseilles residents not following sign ordinance; council to do more to inform
About six months ago, the city of Marseilles adopted a new sign ordinance that hadn't been changed in forty years. But Resident Brad Miller says residents aren't following the rules for putting politi...
Nov 03, 2022 Jeremy Bronson / CC
No one hurt in LaSalle shooting early Saturday
LaSalle Police Chief Michael Smudzinski says thanks to investigators, the threat to public safety was minimized when a man fired a gun with a crowd nearby early Saturday morning. Twenty-eight year old...
Nov 02, 2022 Larry J. Kelly, LaSalle Police Dept. photo
NCAT offering free rides to veterans and voters
North Central Area Transit will help voters get to their polling places Tuesday. Ottawa City Commissioner Wayne Eichelkraut says anyone who needs a free ride should call NCAT by the close of business ...
Nov 02, 2022
LaSalle Alderman wants lights required on electric bikes
Electric bikes in LaSalle could get stricter rules. Alderman Bob Thompson says he wants to create an ordinance that requires the bikes to have a working headlight and a tail light. He says the bikes a...
Nov 02, 2022 Himiway Bikes / Unsplash
County Board approves pandemic relief funds for building projects
Lighted Way Association will get $1 million to support remodeling the nursing home building it bought to turn into a school for special needs students. That money's coming from LaSalle County's $21 mi...
Nov 02, 2022
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