Category Archives: WCMY News
"Justice Jake" found guilty of obstructing a peace officer and battery
A LaSalle County jury decided that continued physical contact with courthouse security and hurting an officer's arm are crimes a person is guilty of, even if he believes he's entitled to be in the bui...
Jun 22, 2022
Copi that? IDNR renames invasive fish in marketing makeover
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is giving the Asian carp a public relations makeover. The name can sound racist and many people can't stomach eating a dirty, bottom feeding fish. IDNR hop...
Jun 22, 2022 Graphic made for the copi marketing campaign
Ottawa City Hall hiring human resources director
Ottawa will put someone on its payroll whose job will be putting people on the city's payroll. Mayor Dan Aussem says the city needs a human resources director. Aussem says the different things a human...
Jun 22, 2022
Ottawa ordinance update extends some tree oversight authority to private property
If you own land in Ottawa and you have a tree that's in poor shape, a city official could tell you to trim or remove it. So far, the city has regulated planting, trimming, and removal only in city rig...
Jun 22, 2022
Ottawa Elementary board president wants to move forward on having AC at Lincoln School
It would cost between eight to ten million dollars to install geothermal energy at Lincoln Elementary School in Ottawa. The Ottawa Elementary School District is using state COVID relief money to insta...
Jun 22, 2022 WCMY file photo of Lincoln Elementary School.
Valley Immigrant Advocates hosting open house next Saturday
There is a new group in Ottawa that allows immigrants in LaSalle County to get free or low cost legal immigration services. Valley Immigrant Advocates was started in 2020 by Attorney and Executive Dir...
Jun 21, 2022
Candidate hurt, mourning death of campaign manager in traffic crash
The campaign manager for 74th District Republican Illinois House candidate Brad Fritts died in a car crash in Earlville Monday afternoon. John Fritts was a relative; he and other relatives were in the...
Jun 21, 2022 John Fritts picture from the Brad Fritts campaign
Oglesby considers parking lot on E. Walnut St.
The Oglesby City Council is hiring Chamlin and Associates to estimate the cost of a parking lot on city property in the 200 block of E. Walnut St. Mayor Dominic Rivara cast the only vote against it. T...
Jun 21, 2022
Former VP Pence rallies Republicans in Illinois
Former Vice President Mike Pence rallied Republicans in Illinois yesterday. Speaking last night at the Lincoln Day Dinner In Peoria, Pence urged the GOP to fight back against what he calls failed Demo...
Jun 21, 2022 Matt Johnson / CC
Ameren wants to develop new transmission line in western LaSalle County
Ameren Illinois hopes to have a new transmission line in western LaSalle County running in 2025. It's called LaSalle Link, even though it links Oglesby and Utica. There are already two 138,000 volt li...
Jun 21, 2022