Category Archives: WCMY News
WCMY hosts and listeners say goodbye to Maggie Frost
WCMY radio host Maggie Frost has died. Radio station management says she died this morning after three months off the air for an illness. Frost had worked for WCMY for since 2016 hosting and co-hostin...
Jul 14, 2022
Marseilles approves purchasing electricity contract for city facilities
The Marseilles City Council is looking again for bids that would offer the city better electric rates. Mayor Jim Hollenbeck says some of the city's electric bills have doubled over the last year. E-Qu...
Jul 14, 2022
Death investigation underway in Mendota
A death investigation is underway in Mendota after a woman died at a home in the 1200 block of Jefferson St. Wednesday morning. Police Chief Greg Kellen says Mendota EMS personnel attempted life-savin...
Jul 13, 2022
Former Peru police station remodeled for Illinois Valley Regional Dispatch center
Seven communities' police, fire, and ambulance services are now dispatched from an updated telecommunications center in the former Peru police station on Fourth St. Illinois Valley Regional Dispatch B...
Jul 13, 2022 Left to right: dispatcher Jena Martin, IVRD Building and Grounds Chairman Doug Bernabei, Mendota Police Chief Greg Kellen, IVRD Executive Director Brandon Miller-Guss, and dispatcher Rachel Sienkiewicz at the Illinois Valley Regional Dispatch Center ribbon cutting
Discussions continue about future of LaSalle County Nursing Home
County Board members are still discussing what should be done about the LaSalle County Nursing Home. The home is running at a $3 million loss per year. Director Carrie Becker wants to add a hospice wi...
Jul 13, 2022
LaSalle to look for new economic development director
LaSalle City Hall has an opening for an economic development director. Leah Inman is leaving to go after other career goals. She's going to stick around to help find her replacement. A city announceme...
Jul 13, 2022
Ottawa man charged with burglaries and battery
An Ottawa man who's on parole from an aggravated battery charge is facing new charges. Police say 33-year old Daniel J. Zeal stole things from a house in the 300 block of E. Prospect St. Monday mornin...
Jul 13, 2022 LaSalle County jail mug shot of Daniel J. Zeal
More purchases made for Streator's ambulance service
The city of Streator made some more purchases for their ambulance service. The council approved buying a third ambulance that the city of Ottawa sold to them for $50,000. They also purchased two stret...
Jul 13, 2022
Truck drivers recruited to help find people forced into sex work
Truck drivers are being recruited to help spot human trafficking-described as modern day slavery of people forced into sex work. Susan Dold with Truckers Against Trafficking says drivers are out there...
Jul 12, 2022 A view inside the Truckers Against Trafficking Freedom Drivers Project trailer with exhibits on what human trafficking is, how victims are lured into it, and what can be done to stop it.
Five gutter installers shocked by electrical wires near Streator
Updated at 6:46am Five people installing gutters at a home northwest of Streator were shocked at about 11:10am Tuesday. The Grand Ridge Fire Department called two medical helicopters to the scene on N...
Jul 12, 2022