Category Archives: WCMY News
Streator Township High School is selling tiny house built by students
People have the opportunity to bid for an eight by ten "A" frame tiny house built by students at Streator High School. The money from the sale of the house will go back into the vocational trades prog...
Jan 09, 2022
Ottawa High School Hall of Fame: S. Isabella Sanders
A woman who taught at Ottawa High School for four decades is one of the people chosen for this year's OHS Hall of Fame. S. Isabella Sanders graduated from OHS in 1904 at age 16. After completing colle...
Jan 09, 2022 S. Isabella Sanders, photo provided by Ottawa High School Hall of Fame Commitee
IVCC extending tuition payment deadline
The tuition payment deadline at Illinois Valley Community College is extended to Wednesday, January 19th. It was supposed to be on the 12th. A college announcement says adding a week will help student...
Jan 08, 2022
Ottawa Christmas tree disposal goes to Jan. 31st this year
Ottawa residents have more time than usual to get rid of the live Christmas trees they're done with. Commissioner Marla Pearson says the collection is going on until the 31st in the Riordan Pool parki...
Jan 08, 2022
St Sen. Brain Stewart says Democrats are claiming social worker legislation as their own
Republican St Sen. Brian Stewart of Freeport says Governor Pritzker and other Democratic lawmakers are politicizing efforts to protect child welfare workers. Stewart says Democrats are introducing a b...
Jan 07, 2022
LaSalle County reaches more than 1,000 new cases and has ten additional deaths
Ten more people in LaSalle County have died after contracting COVID-19. The LaSalle County Health Department says everyone was between their 60's and 90's. That means 396 people have died from the vir...
Jan 07, 2022
Sandwich mans murder trial rescheduled because of COVID-19
COVID-19 has caused the delay of a murder trial. Thirty-eight year old Donald Fredres is accused of shooting and killing sixty-two year olds Gregory and Brenda Barnes in their home in Sheridan last ye...
Jan 07, 2022
CORRECTED: Morris Hospital has little antibody therapy for COVID-19
Morris Hospital says if you need a monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19, you might not be able to get it. One treatment isn't proving very effective against the omicron variant. The other's in s...
Jan 07, 2022
Streator police get 2.5% raise in new labor contract
Streator Police officers are getting a 2.5% raise. City Manager David Plyman says that's a highlight in the new contract signed with the city. It's a three year contract. He says it was a year late be...
Jan 07, 2022
Ottawa High adopts remote learning plan just in case; Streator High is on full remote
The Ottawa High School board approved a remote learning plan Friday. So far, only students in quarantine are attending virtually. There's no intention of going to full remote learning yet. Supt. Mike ...
Jan 07, 2022