Category Archives: WCMY News
Peru and Spring Valley Police Departments getting portion of one million dollar ISP grant
The Peru and Spring Valley Police Departments are getting a portion of a one million dollar grant from Illinois State Police. ISP says the grant will be used to get guns out the hands of dangerous peo...
Sep 24, 2022 Rowdy Roddy
OSF Healthcare awards clinical lab scientist
OSF HealthCare has given another Sunflower Award to an employee. Ronald Buendia is a clinical lab scientist. He lives in Ottawa and has worked for OSF for 21 years. He was nominated because of his ver...
Sep 24, 2022 OSF Healthcare photo of Ronald Buendia
Weekly COVID report: Two deaths reported while current cases continue to fall
The LaSalle County Health Department reported two fatal cases from COVID-19 this week. It was a man in his 80's and another man in his 100's. That brings the county's total to 490 so far. It's the fir...
Sep 23, 2022
Hall HS in "Savory 16" for Pork and Pigskins Championship
Hall High School in Spring Valley is participating again in this year's Illinois High School Association's Pork and Pigskins Championship through the Illinois Pork Producers Association. The school is...
Sep 23, 2022
Kernan man gets four years sentence for two gun related charges
A minimum four year prison sentence was given to the Kernan man convicted of aggravated discharge of a firearm and unlawful possession of a firearm without a Firearm Owner Identification Card. Assista...
Sep 22, 2022
Local unemployment goes up
LaSalle County's unemployment rate climbed from 4.3% to 5.0% from July to August. The state's monthly figures out Thursday show an increase from 4.1% to 4.3% in Bureau County but a drop from 4.9% to 4...
Sep 22, 2022 Got Credit / CC
Ottawa Elementary School budget has surplus but education fund has a deficit
The Ottawa Elementary School District has a surplus in their 2023 budget. The school board unanimously approved it Tuesday. Revenues this year are expected to be about $39.9 million while the district...
Sep 22, 2022
Streator ambulance service ready for Oct. 1; service in Reading Twp. uncertain
Streator residents can expect ambulance service from the city starting at eight in the morning Saturday next week. No one's sure what Reading Township residents should expect. The city's asking for $1...
Sep 22, 2022
Marseilles holds hearing for redoing Broadway Park
At least seven Marseilles residents attended a hearing for a grant that would help redo Broadway Park. The city could get up to $600,000 through an Open Space Land Acquisition and Development Grant th...
Sep 22, 2022 The Marseilles Broadway Park plan
Streator updating five year road plan
Several roads in Streator will be redone over the next five years. City Engineer Jeremy Palm updated the city council about the plan. By next year Palm says West 3rd Street to Kelly Street will be cap...
Sep 21, 2022