Category Archives: WCMY News
Daughters of the American Revolution names local Good Citizens
Six area schools nominated some very active students for Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizen Awards. Ottawa High School's Adilyn Walker, won the local chapter's scholarship; she plans to...
Dec 2, 2021 Left to right: Adilyn Walker (Ottawa High), Carsyn Stipp (Woodland), Lydia Schultz (Streator High), Josie Eager (Marquette) earned Good Citizen awards from the local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter. Also awarded but not present are Miranda Araujo (Seneca High) and Trevor Thanepohn (Serena).
Ottawa native signs one-year contract with Chicago Cubs
The Chicago Cubs have signed a one-year major league contract with Michael Hermosillo. The Ottawa native played for the Cubs last season after being brought up from Triple A Iowa back in August. Last ...
Dec 2, 2021
Poco a Poco starts singing Christmas telegram fundraiser
Poco a Poco is having its first fundraiser. The proceeds will support eight days of music classes for high school age students from across the region next summer in Streator. Poco a Poco also puts on ...
Dec 2, 2021
Morris gets biggest airport funding grant on statewide list
Morris gets the biggest grant on a statewide list of 96 airport projects getting state funding. The state will give the city of Morris 80% of the $14.7 million needed to make a crosswind runway at the...
Dec 2, 2021
Marseilles asking for $1.6 million for next years tax levy
The city of Marseilles has placed their tax levy on file. The city is asking for about $1.6 million for next year. That's about $69,000 more than this year. Finance Commissioner Bobby Kaminski explain...
Dec 2, 2021
Illinois Valley Community College extends tuition deadline
Illinois Valley Community College is extending the deadline for students to pay their tuition. The new deadline is January 12th. Vice President of Student Services Mark Grzybowski says extending the d...
Dec 1, 2021
Air filter tested on already clean air seems to work
A new air filtration system the LaSalle County Board Property Committee wants to install at some county buildings seems to work. An environmental consultant says there weren't enough ozone and volatil...
Dec 1, 2021 Free young woman on the meadow breathes in deeply
Ottawa man arrested and accused of burglary by LaSalle County Sheriff's Deputies
An Ottawa man who was arrested for a trespassing charge last week has now been arrested again and accused of burglary. 34-year old Justin T. Boyd was arrested at his home by LaSalle County Sheriff's D...
Dec 1, 2021
Starved Rock murders evidence to be shipped to lab for analysis next week
The DNA analysis won't be done by Christmas as defense attorney Celeste Stack had hoped, but evidence in the Starved Rock murders case should be undergoing examination at a lab in Virginia by then. St...
Nov 30, 2021 Chester Weger and family await Judge Michael C. Jansz's ruling on evidence testing. October 2021 photo from Shaw Media via news media court pool.
LaSalle City Council approves ordinance for tax levy
The city of LaSalle is expecting the tax levy to be about the same next year as this year.City Finance Director John Duncan says this year the city is asking for $3,133,784 which is about $16,000 more...
Nov 30, 2021