Category Archives: WCMY News
Peru City Council purchases air packs for fire department
Firefighters in Peru are getting new air packs. There are used by firefighters so they can still breathe when they go into a burning structure or a place with little oxygen. The city is paying about $...
Feb 05, 2022 Thomas Park / Unsplash
Five Republicans ask for nomination in 105th Ill. House district
The Republican primary for the 105th district Illinois House race will be crowded if all the candidates who have announced stay in. From LaSalle County, former State's Attorney Karen Donnelly announce...
Feb 05, 2022 The Illinois House 105th district effective for the decade of legislative terms beginning 2023, from a GoogleMaps page
Weekly COVID report: seven more fatal cases in LaSalle County, more recoveries than new cases
Seven more LaSalle County residents' lives were lost during the last week to the coronavirus. The LaSalle County Health Department says the people's ages ranged from their 50's to 80's. The county's f...
Feb 04, 2022
Streator Fire Department puts out kitchen fire quickly
The Streator Fire Department was able to quickly put out a kitchen fire Friday morning in the 200 block of W. Broadway St. The department says when they first arrived; smoke was coming out the back of...
Feb 04, 2022
Ottawa updating natural hazards mitigation plan
The Federal Emergency Management Agency requires local governments to update their natural hazard mitigation plans every five years. Ottawa has decided to do it every year. Building and zoning officia...
Feb 04, 2022
Veterans can be honored on banners in Ottawa
The city of Ottawa is giving residents the chance to honor someone who served in the US Military. Commissioner Marla Pearson says a banner program will recognize current or former Ottawa residents who...
Feb 04, 2022
GOP now looks to censure Cheney and Kinzinger, not oust them
By SAM METZ and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Republican officials meeting in Utah have advanced a watered-down resolution that would formally censure Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Ki...
Feb 04, 2022 Cong. Adam Kinzinger
NCAT modernizing ride booking
People who want North Central Area Transit bus rides have to call by telephone to schedule them. That's supposed to change later this month. Ottawa City Commissioner Wayne Eichelkraut says NCAT is get...
Feb 04, 2022
Chicago man sentenced to 60 days in county jail plus two and half years probation
A Chicago man has been sentenced to sixty days in the LaSalle County Jail and two and a half years of probation. 26-year old Reynaldo Diaz pleaded guilty back in August to cutting someone off and poin...
Feb 03, 2022
Peru man is denied guilty plea withdraw
A Peru man accused of pushing an 84-year old man over a guard rail back in 2019 will not have his guilty plea withdrawn. 46-year old Michael Stuart claimed that his lawyer Tom McClintock told him that...
Feb 03, 2022