Category Archives: WCMY News
Oglesby City Hall closed due to COVID, city council meeting rescheduled
Oglesby City Hall is closed until Wednesday. Mayor Dominic Rivara ordered the closure because two or more staff members tested positive for COVID-19. Water bill payments and other payments can be put ...
Jan 3, 2022
Top stories of 2021: barge fleeting operation on hold
A barge fleeting operation handling up to 106 barges east of Seneca could have been one of our top stories of 2021. Instead, the story is that the business can't get started yet. Grundy County Judge S...
Jan 2, 2022
Top stories of 2021: Starved Rock murders evidence gets DNA testing
As 2022 begins, evidence from the 1960 Starved Rock murders is being tested at a lab in Virginia. Eighty-two year old Chester Weger of LaSalle is hoping to clear his name with DNA examinations that co...
Jan 2, 2022 quapan / CC
Top stories of 2021: Ottawa city leaders consider Riordan Pool's future
Among our top stories of 2021, most people in Ottawa seem to want to keep Riordan Pool open. City Commissioner Marla Pearson says it'll take $1.7 million to make repairs over the next five years or $4...
Jan 1, 2022 File photo of Ottawa's Riordan Pool
Top stories of 2021: offensive name for Bureau County creek dropped
Adams Creek is the new name for an 11-mile waterway in eastern Bureau County. One of our top local stories of 2021, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names voted on October 14th to change the name from Neg...
Jan 1, 2022 lesguillemets / CC
Although deaths are a little lower, COVID-19 levels remains high in LaSalle County
Although it's not as many as last week, there were ten deaths attributed to the Coronavirus in LaSalle County. The LaSalle County Health Department says that the youngest person who died was a male in...
Dec 31, 2021
Panhandle wind turbine project to go to LaSalle County Zoning Board of Appeals
Up to 43 wind turbines could be built in the LaSalle County panhandle. The company planning to do it is asking the county for permits. It'll have a hearing with the Zoning Board of Appeals on Wednesda...
Dec 31, 2021
Top stories of 2021: Ottawa gets grant for Green St. floodplain project
In September, Ottawa City Hall got notice that the state will pay 80% of the $4.25 million cost to raise Greet St. above the floodplain. That leaves the city with $850,000 to come up with for the work...
Dec 30, 2021 WCMY file photo of Green St. in Ottawa during a flood. The city plans to raise the street above the floodplain and have a passage to let water flow under it.
Ottawa man and woman arrested in cocaine bust
The Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team arrested two Ottawa people Wednesday after an undercover investigation. Forty-seven year old Jeremy M. Myers is accused of dealing drugs to Trident agent...
Dec 30, 2021
No walk-in COVID tests are available at St. Margaret's Health anymore
COVID tests are no longer being given on a walk-in basis at St. Margaret's Health. The hospital system says it doesn't have enough tests to do that. It's saving them for patients with doctor's orders....
Dec 30, 2021