Category Archives: WCMY News

Parents with students in the Ottawa Elementary School Districts will be getting more mail about what's happening in the district. The school district agreed to sign an $110,000 contract with a company...

The last part of phase one for the Schweickert Stadium project in Peru has been approved. The city council approved a bid from Vissering Construction for a little less than $483,000 to finish concrete...

When Jerry Corcoran retires next summer, he'll have worked for Illinois Valley Community College for 33 years and almost half of them as its president. The 15 years will make him the college's third l...

A popular theme at the Children's Business Fair in Ottawa Saturday was selling handmade crafts. The tools to make them aren't too dangerous for children to handle. Even if they got the idea from someo...

Residents on Heritage and Oakwood Avenues in Oglesby are asking the city council for a solution to stop their basements from flooding when it rains. Heritage Garden Homeowner Association Pres. Duane S...

The traffic pattern on Main St. in Ottawa at the start and end of school days will extend into mid-September. Ottawa High School Supt. Mike Cushing says the bridge maintenance work will last longer th...

The Mendota train depot was evacuated Sunday afternoon and police boarded an Amtrak train bound for California. Forty-one year old Baird Douglas McNeil of Tallahassee, Florida was arrested on a disord...

Three LaSalle County communities are getting grants from the state of Illinois for major improvements. Ottawa's getting $3 million for a riverfront amphitheater. Utica's getting almost $1.25 million t...

If you saw a large riverboat parked at Allen Park in Ottawa, that's part of the annual river cruises done by American Queen Voyages. The boat stopped in Ottawa as part of a trip that started in St. Lo...

A Chicago man's 15-year prison sentence for harassing a witness in 2018 isn't excessive. So say three appellate court judges who heard the claim from 36-year old Everett Clinton. He was accused of tak...