Category Archives: WCMY News
Protective scaffolding ordered for former Maytag building to protect public from falling bricks
The former Maytag building at 801 to 805 First St. in LaSalle is a danger to pedestrians. City Hall says developer CL Enterprises will install scaffolding to make a tunnel for people to walk through o...
Jul 20, 2022 The Maytag building in downtown LaSalle, under renovation by CL Enterprises
Ottawa to get new outdoor fitness court
Two parks in Ottawa are being considered for the placement of an outdoor fitness area. City Commissioner Marla Pearson says the National Fitness Campaign is providing $50,000 and the city's putting in...
Jul 20, 2022 The Walsh Park fitness course soon won't be the only one in Ottawa.
OES board continues discussion on heating and cooling Lincoln Elementary School
The price to install some kind of heating and cooling system at Lincoln Elementary School is expected to continue to go up. That's what Architect Bill Taylor told the Ottawa Elementary School Board at...
Jul 20, 2022 WCMY file photo of Lincoln Elementary School.
Man dies of injuries after electric shock accident near Streator
Twenty-two year old Seth Durand of Roanoke has died at a Springfield Hospital after the electric shock accident that knocked him and four other men off ladders at a home northwest of Streator. It has ...
Jul 19, 2022 Seth Durand, picture from Double L Seamless Gutters social media post
Oglesby rule update: cross dressing okay as long as you're wearing something
Cross-dressing is allowed in Oglesby now. City Attorney Patrick Barry says the ban was unconstitutional. Showing too much of what clothing is supposed to conceal is still prohibited. The question of w...
Jul 19, 2022
Grundy County public defender appointed judge
Grundy County Public Defender Gary Dobbs will be Judge Dobbs in two weeks. He's been appointed to fill the term of Lance Peterson, who's moving up to the Third District Appellate Court. The term ends ...
Jul 19, 2022
Masks required inside Illinois Waterway Visitors Center again
The high community transmission level of COVID-19 in LaSalle County means indoor mask mandates again in some places. The Illinois Waterway Visitors Center on Dee Bennett Rd. is one of them. The Army C...
Jul 18, 2022 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo of the Illinois Waterway Visitors Center
Heidi Henry running for Illinois House 75th District
Heidi Henry of Marseilles has a week to collect at least 400 signatures to get on the ballot in the general election in the Illinois House 75th District. No Democrats ran in the primary, so post-prima...
Jul 18, 2022
Honorary street names in Marseilles were honors decades in the making
Honors for three Marseilles men killed in the Vietnam War were a few decades in the making. Honorary street names were approved for Army Specialist Norman Eugene Treest on W. Bluff St., Air Force Sgt....
Jul 18, 2022
Home burns down southwest of Troy Grove
No one was home when a farm house caught fire southwest of Troy Grove early Monday morning. And thick fog made it hard for anyone else to see the flames. When fire fighters finally became aware of it,...
Jul 18, 2022