Category Archives: WCMY News
Ottawa may switch firms for marketing to developers
Ottawa City Hall plans to change companies for marketing the city. It's finishing a contract with a company called Buxton, which came down from $50,000 per year to $25,000 during the pandemic. Commiss...
Apr 21, 2022 File photo of a feather banner on Ottawa's north side
Jury selection next week in Sheridan murder case
Thirty-eight year old Donald Fredres of Sandwich is taking the murder case against him to trial Monday. Jury selection is scheduled to start then in Judge H. Chris Ryan's courtroom. Fredres is accused...
Apr 21, 2022 Tingey Injury Law Firm / Unsplash
Oglesby mayor warns against nude entertainment
Oglesby Mayor Dominic Rivara wants everyone to know that nude entertainment isn't allowed in the city. The city's ordinances specify what body parts must be covered and they specify completely and opa...
Apr 21, 2022 Klara Kulikova / Unsplash
Seneca H.S. opts out of national sex education standards
Seneca High School's curriculum won't include the national sex education standards whose critics says young kids would be exposed to too much information. Supt. Dan Stecken told the school board last ...
Apr 21, 2022
Ottawa Elementary Superintendent asking board to approve bonds for projects
Ottawa Elementary School Supt. Cleve Threadgill wants the board to approve saving $3.5 million in Health and Life Safety Bonds. Threadgill says the money would be used for different projects around th...
Apr 21, 2022
Running Ottawa government expected to cost $67 million in FY2023
Running Ottawa city government during the next year will cost $67 million. That's about $11.8 million more than the city expects in revenue. Treasurer Don Harris says most of the difference will be co...
Apr 20, 2022
NCAT has same trouble buying new vehicles as everyone else
It's at least as hard to buy a new bus as it is to buy a new car. Ottawa City Commissioner Wayne Eichelkraut says NCAT is keeping old buses on the roads longer than it used to. The city's trying to ge...
Apr 20, 2022
No masks required on NCAT buses
NCAT bus riders don't have to wear masks anymore. Ottawa City Commissioner Wayne Eichelkraut says that's following the federal court ruling in Florida Monday saying the Centers for Disease Control can...
Apr 20, 2022
Lincoln Elementary stair project bid approved by Ottawa Elementary School Board
The inside stairs at Lincoln Elementary School will be redone. The Ottawa Elementary School Board awarded the project to Bee Liner Lean Services for about $86,000. Supt. Cleve Threadgill says the dist...
Apr 20, 2022 WCMY file photo of Lincoln Elementary School.
Six Oglesby police officers honored
Oglesby Police Chief Doug Hayse hopes to be able to present awards to police officers who do great work more regularly. A committee looked back ten years in some cases to find officers who did heroic ...
Apr 19, 2022 Assistant Police Chief Mike Margis (right) is given the Life Saving awards for 2016 and 2018, the Distinguished Arrest Award for 2018, and a Meritorious Conduct Award for 2017.