Category Archives: WCMY News
Traffic changes coming with continued bridge construction and OHS school year
There will be some traffic changes in Ottawa for students and teachers returning to Ottawa High School for the new school year starting Tuesday. The Illinois Department of Transportation says beginnin...
Aug 08, 2022
100th anniversary of Oglesby-born Major League Baseball player coming
Oglesby Mayor Dominic Rivara wants August 18th to be Jim Bottomley Day. Bottomley, nicknamed Sunny Jim, debuted in Major League Baseball on August 18, 1922. He played in the Majors until 1937, most of...
Aug 07, 2022 Jim Bottomley statue at the baseball field named for him in Oglesby
Man with shotgun loose near Ransom
UPDATE: The LaSalle County Sheriff's Department says the person has been "has been potentially located and identified". Deputies will continue to patrol the area. Anyone with information about the cas...
Aug 06, 2022
TBM Avengers Chairman says 2022 event was the most organized it's ever been
TBM Avengers Chairman Cary Miller says this year's event was an exact copy of last year, including the weather. He says although everything was great on Friday, it was a tough decision to call off the...
Aug 06, 2022
Change of parks for Ottawa's new outdoor fitness court
A new outdoor fitness course won't go in Eastside Park or Lincoln-Douglas Park after all. Ottawa City Commissioner Marla Pearson says the National Fitness Campaign looked things over and decided Kiwan...
Aug 06, 2022 The Walsh Park fitness course soon won't be the only one in Ottawa.
Ottawa preparing for last of Thornton Park work
The people using Thornton Park don't seem to mind that the park's renovation isn't done yet. City Commissioner Marla Pearson says three contracts the City Council approved this past week are for the r...
Aug 06, 2022 WCMY photo taken earlier this year of the Thornton Park tennis and basketball courts which are being remade into new courts for basketball, tennis, and pickleball.
Oglesby considering lawn watering credit for sewer bill reduction
An Oglesby resident asked about getting a sewer bill credit for watering a lawn. The city offers a credit for filling a swimming pool. The rationale is that the large volume of water that's billed for...
Aug 06, 2022 steve p2008 / CC
LaSalle County COVID-19 cases down, recoveries outnumber new cases and no deaths this week
For the first time in four weeks, current COVID-19 cases in LaSalle County went down. Also recoveries outnumber new cases for the first time in more than a month. The LaSalle County Health Department ...
Aug 05, 2022
Bowling alley reopens after three-year closure with new name
Parker Whiteaker bowled the first strike after The Alley opened Thursday, just three frames into his game. He bowled two more strikes in the game. His grandmother, Gail Whiteaker, says Parker loves bo...
Aug 05, 2022 A bowling ball waits for use as The Alley opens while a worker brings a ladder to the front of the building.
Teen arrested in Joliet after deadly Morris shooting
Police say license plate reading cameras helped find the suspect in a deadly shooting that happened in Morris yesterday. A 25-year old woman was shot at an apartment building on Twilight Dr. in the af...
Aug 05, 2022