Category Archives: WCMY News
Oglesby still figuring out video gambling license fee increase details
Oglesby city commissioners and the mayor feel some of the increased revenue from video gambling license fees should go to parks and downtown beautification. Just how much, they're still working out. C...
Aug 04, 2022
Tree Board member says Ottawa over-prunes trees
Ottawa's trees are over-pruned, according to a Tree Board member. Vicki Stacy complained to the City Council this week, trees along LaSalle St. and Boyce Memorial Dr. were pruned too close and too hig...
Aug 04, 2022 Ottawa Tree Board member Vicki Stacy says this tree was butchered in the name of pruning. She provided this photo.
Marseilles hiring Chamlin and Associates for plans to improve bridges on Main Street
Marseilles is spending $8,000 for Chamlin and Associates to make plans to fix areas on two bridges in the downtown area. City Engineer Mike Etscheid says one area is the North mill race bridge which i...
Aug 04, 2022
Oglesby council decides on parking lot plan
Twelve parking spaces are being planned for in the city-owned lot in the 200 block of E. Walnut St. in Oglesby. After another long discussion this week, the city council members agreed the alley exit ...
Aug 03, 2022 The proposed E. Walnut St. location for a parking lot in Oglesby
Peru to borrow money to move substation out of flood plain
The city of Peru will have to borrow money to move an electric substation on Water St. out of the flood plain. Mayor Ken Kolowski says the city didn't receive a Federal Emergency Management Agency gra...
Aug 03, 2022
Ottawa to try to get back into electricity purchasing for residents
Ottawa's city council has authorized Mayor Dan Aussem to negotiate and sign a deal for the bulk purchase of electricity for city residents. The city hasn't participated in the electric aggregation pro...
Aug 03, 2022
Bid requests to go out for new Riordan Pool
Ottawa Mayor Dan Aussem says the Riordan Pool demolition and reconstruction are supposed to be done by the middle of May. That's going into the request for bids that will be published soon. The City C...
Aug 03, 2022 File photo of Ottawa's Riordan Pool
Former mayor critical of parking plan kept from public
Is it enough to tell a few business owners but not the public about proposed public parking changes? Former Ottawa mayor Bob Eschbach thinks not. At last night's City Council meeting, he criticized a ...
Aug 03, 2022 Former mayor Bob Eschbach (far right) talks to the Ottawa City Council on August 2, 2022
Taste of the Illinois Valley returns to Peru for second consecutive year
For the second year in a row, Taste of the Illinois Valley is returning to Centennial Park in Peru. It this Thursday and Friday from 4pm to 10pm and Saturday from 11am to 10pm. Parks Director Adam Tho...
Aug 02, 2022
Joe Navarro is LaSalle County State's Attorney again
Former LaSalle County State's Attorney Todd Martin told the County Board today, he never imagined he'd resign from the job he started working hard to get more than two years ago. But the chance to bec...
Aug 02, 2022 Joe Navarro