Category Archives: WCMY News
City of LaSalle changing garbage haulers
Republic Services will no longer pick up trash in LaSalle. The city council approve a new contract with Lakeshore Recycling Services Monday. The new contract starts on February 1st of 2023. Mayor Jeff...
Aug 23, 2022 the blowup / Unsplash
Lessons learned at Children's Business Fair
Some things sell better than others, and that's one of the lessons the kids who participated in the Children's Business Fair in Ottawa learned. Aanya Agarwal has been to a business fair before. She kn...
Aug 22, 2022 Amen Acres, run by Ellie Maierhofer of Seneca, at the Children's Business Fair in Ottawa.
OES Superintendent wants committee for updating fifteen year facility plan
Ottawa Elementary School Supt. Michelle Lee says the fifteen year facility plan for the district needs to be updated. However Lee says competitive grants are hard to get. And she says the goal of the ...
Aug 22, 2022
Carus announces $20 million expansion
Carus LLC says a $20 million investment at its Peru sodium permanganate production facility will make it more efficient and it will produce more. The company expects production at the expanded facilit...
Aug 22, 2022
Perfectly Flawed Foundation taking registration for fundraising golf outing
The Perfectly Flawed Foundation is having its first in-person fundraiser in a long time next month. Founder Luke Tomsha says golfers who want to play for it at Senica's Oak Ridge on Saturday, Septembe...
Aug 22, 2022 Chris Urbanowicz / CC
Oglesby seeking bids to construct E. Walnut Street parking lot
Bids are being sought by the Oglesby City Council for the parking lot on E. Walnut St. The company chosen would construct the city owned parking lot. In the previous months, residents were asking the ...
Aug 21, 2022 The proposed E. Walnut St. location for a parking lot in Oglesby
Committee lining up parade entries for day after Scarecrow Fest
There was no Riverfest parade this year, but Ottawa's putting on a fall parade on Sunday, September 25th. It will be the day after Scarecrow Fest. The parade committee wants to hear from people and or...
Aug 20, 2022 Tim Green / CC
Tractor ride and Ridge Roundup today
A parade of tractors will be on the roads in LaSalle County today. Richard Mertel with the Ridge Roundup says they'll start in Grand Ridge at 8am, head to the Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial in Ma...
Aug 20, 2022 Some of the vintage tractors in a tractor show for the Ridge Roundup in Grand Ridge. The owners may drive them in Saturday's tractor ride to Marseilles and Seneca. The tractor with the U.S. flag is from 1946.
OES Supt. Michelle Lee to oversee her first school year
The first day of school for the Ottawa Elementary School District is August 31st. Dr. Michelle Lee will be superintendent for her first year. She says it's different because she was in charge of two d...
Aug 20, 2022
Illinois American Water offering grants to fire departments
Illinois American Water is offering grants to fire departments that serve its service areas. Those areas include Streator and Ransom. The company will award up to $1,000 to a department for water hand...
Aug 20, 2022