Category Archives: WCMY News
OSF nurse presented with award for compassionate care
A nurse at OSF Healthcare in Ottawa received an award for extraordinary clinical skill and compassionate care. The DAISY Award was given to Shannon Sibert, a nurse in the obstetrics unit and Mission P...
Mar 7, 2022 Left to right:
Heather Bomstad, Chief Nursing Officer,
DAISY Award Winner Shannon Sibert
Annabel Tomas, Director of the Family Birthing Center at OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center
Photo from OSF Healthcare
Marseilles City Council swears in eight members for ESDA team
The Marseilles City Council swore in eight members of the local Emergency Service Disaster Agency at Wednesday's city council meeting. The ESDA members will help the police and fire department in emer...
Mar 6, 2022 Commissioner and ESDA President Nathan Schaefer and the seven other members are sworn in by City Clerk Lesley Hart at Wednesday's city council meeting.
Hundreds show support for convoy drivers going through Oglesby
Most of the trucks in the convoys going through Oglesby didn't pull through the Love's Travel Stop this afternoon. Hundreds of people were there to welcome them anyway and to make their own protest ag...
Mar 5, 2022 A Freedom Convoy truck is loaded with donated food, drinks, tools, and other items.
County Parks Director asking U of I to measure tree to see if it's the biggest in the state
LaSalle County Parks Director Ken Henze says he wants to know if the county has the biggest Kentucky coffee tree in the state. Henze says the tree is located in Catlin Park, although it is about thirt...
Mar 5, 2022 Biodiversity Heritage Library
Ottawa Central Dispatch honors telecommunicator for 20 years of work
Twenty years is a notable milestone in emergency services telecommunications. Ottawa Central Dispatch says Grant Stock has passed that mark and should have many more years there. The announcement says...
Mar 5, 2022
New evaluation method puts LaSalle County at low COVID community level
A new way of evaluating how much COVID-19 risk there is in a community puts LaSalle County at a low level. The LaSalle County Health Department says the CDC bases that evaluation on new case rates and...
Mar 4, 2022
City of LaSalle hosting electronic drop-off event for residents
The city of LaSalle is hosting its own electronic drop-off event. Deputy City Clerk Brent Bader says the same people who help with the drop-off events at the Etna. Rd Courthouse in Ottawa are helping ...
Mar 4, 2022
Water company asks for rate increase and discount program in Streator, Ransom
Streator and Ransom residents could get higher water bills next year. Illinois American Water is asking the Illinois Commerce Commission for permission to raise rates. Spokeswoman Karen Cotton says so...
Mar 4, 2022
July trial scheduled in fatal drug overdose case
A 56-year old Indiana man who was thinking about representing himself against a drug-induced homicide charge now wants a private lawyer. Brian Mulcahy also wants his bond to be less than $1 million. L...
Mar 3, 2022
Trial not scheduled, but getting closer, in Ottawa murder case
A Mokena man charged with an Ottawa murder may get a trial date in that case next month. Thirty year old Michael Swift is also charged in Kendall County with trying to hire a hit man to kill a judge a...
Mar 3, 2022