Category Archives: WCMY News
Gas main replacement underway before realignment project starts in Marseilles
Before the Commercial and Broadway St. realignment project in Marseilles can start, an eight inch high pressure gas main has to be relocated. City Engineer Mike Etscheid says the project will take abo...
May 09, 2022 WCMY file photo of the Main-Broadway-Commercial streets intersection before realignment work.
LaSalle County Health Department offering tips for Lyme Disease Awareness Month
The LaSalle County Health Department says May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. The department is reminding residents what to do if they find ticks, which could be carrying the disease. To prevent tick...
May 08, 2022 John Tann / CC
Nursing prerequisite courses available during summer semester at IVCC
Illinois Valley Community College is giving students interested in nursing the chance to complete prerequisites during the summer. The college says nursing applicants must complete several courses bef...
May 08, 2022
Ottawa Canal Association asks for master plan on re-watered canal
Developing the recreational amenities on the Illinois and Michigan Canal in Ottawa might require a master plan. Ottawa Canal Association President Arnie Bandstra is asking the City Council to develop ...
May 07, 2022 WCMY file photo: Ottawa Canal Association President Arnie Bandstra, in a canoe, cuts the ribbon on the re-watered part of the Illinois and Michigan Canal in Ottawa.
March traffic stop leads to Streator woman's warrant arrest
LaSalle County Sheriff Adam Diss says a Streator woman was arrested on a LaSalle County warrant for alleged armed violence and marijuana possession with intent to deliver. Diss says the charged agains...
May 07, 2022
No morel mushroom festival in Ottawa again
The first weekend in May used to be the morel mushroom hunting weekend in Ottawa. The Midwest Morel Festival came to Ottawa from 2011 to 2019. It hasn't happened since, because it hasn't had a major s...
May 07, 2022
Weekly COVID Report: New and current case continue upward; one additional death
New COVID cases continue to grow in LaSalle County. The LaSalle County Health Department reported 203 new cases this week for a total of 29,368 so far. There were only 65 recoveries for a total of 28,...
May 06, 2022
Welter says buck stops with Pritzker administration for 36 veterans deaths
During a virtual press conference Friday, Republican St. Rep David Welter of Morris says the buck stops with Gov. Pritzker when it comes to the COVID-19 deaths of thirty-six veterans at the LaSalle Ve...
May 06, 2022
Second trial in razor-tipped arrow murder case scheduled for September
A Varna man's murder retrial is scheduled for the week of September 19th. Twenty-eight year old Bradley French will be allowed to make more of a self-defense claim this time. An appellate court tossed...
May 06, 2022
LaSalle considering no turn signs for semis on Richard Hallett Road
The LaSalle Streets, Alley's and Traffic Committee wants to petition the Illinois Department of Transportation for no turn signs for semis on Richard Hallett Rd. Residents came back to this week's mee...
May 06, 2022 Marcus Quigmire / CC