Category Archives: WCMY News
FBI offers $10K for information in ISU grad student's death
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) - The FBI is offering up to a $10,000 reward for information on the final hours of an Illinois State University graduate student who disappeared in August and was later found de...
Dec 14, 2021 Jelani Day
LaSalle County Board tables resolution for new redistricting map
The LaSalle County Board voted to table a resolution that would have rescinded and rejected the first district map they approved in November. Pro Temp Chairman Curt Faber of Mendota says from his unde...
Dec 13, 2021 This is the map that would have been approved by the county board if the resolution wasn't tabled.
City of Peru asking for about $858,000 for tax levy
The city of Peru is levying for about $39,000 more than this year. Finance Director Justin Miller says the city is asking for $858,197 from property taxes. Last year this city asked for $818,500. Mill...
Dec 13, 2021
IDNR gives grant for Dayton Bluffs work
The Conservation Foundation will do prescribed burns and thin the tree canopy in some areas of the Dayton Bluffs Nature Preserve. It will do the same thing at the O'Hara Woods Nature Preserve in Will ...
Dec 13, 2021
Illinois Farm Bureau reelects Rich Guebert its president
Rich Guebert, Jr. is starting his fifth two-year term as the Illinois Farm Bureau President. He says it will be his last. Things have changed a lot since he joined the IFB board 18 years ago. Farmers ...
Dec 13, 2021 Illinois Farm Bureau photo of Richard Guebert, Jr.
Endorsements made for two candidates in congressional and Supreme Court race
Endorsements have been made for 14th district congressional candidate James Marter and Illinois Supreme Court candidate Judge Mary Kay O'Brien. Marter has been endorsed by Taxpayers United of America*...
Dec 12, 2021
Kiwanis Club Kids Night returns to Ottawa City Council
This month, Ottawa city officials showed area grade school students city facilities for the annual Kiwanis Club event. The event didn't include a Kids Night at the City Council meeting last year becau...
Dec 12, 2021
Employees at local nuclear power plants donate $482,000 for local charities
Employees at Braidwood, Dresden and LaSalle station nuclear power plants have pledged more than $482,000 to 377 charities during this year's employee giving campaign. Those employees are just a part o...
Dec 11, 2021
Chris Kringle market work began months ago
Some of the vendors involved in last year's Ottawa Chris Kringle Market knew already before it was over that they wanted to return. Stephanie Stacy of Floret Events started taking application for this...
Dec 11, 2021
Peru man who pleaded guilty to pushing neighbor wants his plea withdrawn
A Peru man who pleaded guilty to pushing his elderly neighbor over a guard rail back in October wants withdrawn his plea. 45-year old Michael E. Stuart will be back in court in January to make his cas...
Dec 10, 2021