Category Archives: WCMY News
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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 3, 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A Peru man accused of pushing an 84-year old man over a guard rail back in 2019 will not have his guilty plea withdrawn. 46-year old Michael Stuart claimed that his lawyer Tom McClintock told him that...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 3, 2022
Ottawa High School Hall of Fame: 1965-1966 boys varsity tennis
A tennis team will join the four individuals being inducted into the Ottawa High School Hall of Fame this weekend. The 1965 to 1966 varsity boys team finished fourth in the state and won three champio...
Feb 3, 2022 The Ottawa High School pirate overlooks the tennis courts.
Marseilles preparing for new sidewalks on north side
Construction could start this summer on six-foot wide sidewalks along Rutland St. and Bratton Ave. in Marseilles. Renwick and Associates will design the sidewalks this spring for $64,000. Mayor Jim Ho...
Feb 3, 2022 marnalbano / CC
Mokena man accused of Ottawa murder won't go to trial this month
A Mokena man won't be going to trial in LaSalle County this month. Attorney Tim Cappellini says 30-year old Michael Swift is still negotiating with the state about his other case in Kendall County. Sw...
Feb 3, 2022