Category Archives: WCMY News
Advisors for America in Bloom contest coming to Ottawa this week
For a seventh year, advisors from the America in Bloom National Awards Program will come to Ottawa. Sharon Hadden and Galen Gates will stay Monday and Tuesday to evaluate the community's efforts in th...
Jun 12, 2022
Canal in Ottawa getting water again after more work
Ottawa's part of the Illinois and Michigan Canal that was reconfigured to hold water again may reopen next week. Remediation work has been going on for the past month and the city turned on the water ...
Jun 11, 2022 A hose connected to a fire hydrant on nearby Canal St. supplies this apparatus with water to fill the I&M Canal in Ottawa Thursday, June 9, 2022
Chris Pozzi knows she has big shoes to fill following longtime health department director
Chris Pozzi has worked for the LaSalle County Health Department since 1992. The past week was her first as its director. Pozzi replaces Julie Kerestes, who retired after 35 years at the health departm...
Jun 11, 2022 Chris Pozzi
Picture from LaSalle County Health Department
Turkey hunt totals down in LaSalle County, up elsewhere
Hunters in LaSalle County shot fewer turkeys this year than last. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources says the figures were 110 for LaSalle County last year and 95 this year. Hunters in neigh...
Jun 11, 2022
Two Joliet men charged with unlawful delivery of cocaine in Ottawa
Two Joliet men are accused of delivering twenty-six grams of a substance containing cocaine to agents from the Tri-County Enforcement Narcotics Team Thursday in Ottawa. Agents say they first talked to...
Jun 10, 2022
Current COVID cases drop for first time in two months
The LaSalle County Health Department says the fatal coronavirus case count went up by one this past week to 474. A woman in her 90's succumbed to it. Recoveries outnumbered new cases for the first tim...
Jun 10, 2022
Shoplifting case dropped after Justice, IL man get four years in prison
Because of his four-year prison sentence, a separate shoplifting charge against a Justice, Illinois man was dropped. 28-year-old Kyle A. Buss pleaded guilty last week to robbing the Oasis gas station ...
Jun 10, 2022 LaSalle County jail mug shot of Kyle A. Buss
Ottawa hosting first pride festival
Ottawa Family Pride Fest organizer Dylan Conmy doesn't think there's ever been such an event in LaSalle County. It attracted so much interest, he had to make room for more vendors and a second stage. ...
Jun 10, 2022
Lawyer in Varna man's murder case misses court again
Another scheduling conflict caused the lawyer for 28-year-old Bradley French to not show up in court Friday. French is accused of shooting and killing 38-year-old Joshua Scaman with a razor-tipped arr...
Jun 10, 2022
Four area cities get grants for housing improvements
Some people who own homes in four area communities will soon be able to apply for grants to repair and improve them. The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity is giving $550,000 eac...
Jun 10, 2022