Category Archives: WCMY News
Lighted Way purchases new building; Peru supports group getting ARPA money
Hopefully staring in the 2023 school year, students at Lighted Way Children's Development Center will have a better place to learn. The organization said they have purchased the abandoned Heritage Man...
Aug 30, 2022
Recently retired police dog dies
The police dog that was retired from the Ottawa Police Department last month has died. Gussy was with the department for nine years. She worked a lot of drug cases for the city. The department retired...
Aug 30, 2022 Gussy, photo provided via social media by Ottawa Police Department
Volunteers and house captains needed for United Way of Eastern LaSalle County's Labor of Love
The United Way of Eastern LaSalle County is once again looking for volunteers for Labor of Love. It's the 31st year the organization is repairing homes for those who might not have the ability or the ...
Aug 29, 2022 WCMY file picture of a United Way of Eastern LaSalle County Labor of Love project
Beds offered to Mendota fire victims
The approximately two dozen people whose apartments burned up in the fire in Mendota last week can get more help. The Mendota Elks Lodge and Meyers Furniture of Mendota are providing beds, sheets, pil...
Aug 29, 2022 City of Mendota picture of the fire in the 800 block of Main St. August 22, 2022
Marquis Energy working toward Sustainable Aviation Fuel future
Marquis Energy in Hennepin is working with a company called LanzaJet to produce sustainable aviation fuel. The companies are creating a Sustainable Aviation Fuel Facility which takes the ethanol they ...
Aug 29, 2022
Ottawa City Hall taking public input on Allen Park plan
Ottawa City Hall wants the public's input on an Allen Park plan. The city will apply for an Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development grant to redesign the park. The city's having Hitchcock Design ...
Aug 29, 2022 File photo of people fishing at Allen Park in Ottawa.
Insurance agent Robert Hasty running for Ottawa mayor
Insurance agent Robert Hasty wants to be the next mayor of Ottawa. He announced his campaign yesterday. He's promising "true transparency" on city spending and to research ways to lower the cost of li...
Aug 29, 2022 Robert Hasty, photo provided by the candidate
IVAC looking for applications for commercial open house
The Illinois Valley Chamber of Commerce and the Illini Valley Association of Realtors are hosting a commercial property open house. The event will have interested businesses look at properties in LaSa...
Aug 29, 2022
Spring Valley and Pontiac libraries getting construction upgrades
The Richard A. Mautino Memorial Library in Spring Valley is getting automatic doors. The money is coming from $870,000 in construction grants through Secretary of State Jesse White's office. The libra...
Aug 28, 2022 Kevin Wong / CC
Computers, no overdue fines, more adult and teen programs among changes in libraries during retired director's 39-year career
Some of the biggest changes in libraries in the last generation began with computers. Charm Ruhnke, now retired from the Peru Public Library, says she didn't foresee just how sweeping the changes woul...
Aug 28, 2022