Category Archives: WCMY News
Children's COVID-19 vaccine available through LaSalle County Health Dept.
The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children is available through the LaSalle County Health Department. The department says you must make an appointment. Anyone showing up on a walk-in basis will be turne...
Nov 03, 2021 CDC / Unsplash
Wine and Art Walk to happen this Saturday in Ottawa
Ottawa is hosting the sixth annual Wine and Art Walk. Ottawa Visitors Center Administrative Assistant Donna Reynolds says that it's starts this Saturday from two to eight at the Jordan Block. She says...
Nov 03, 2021 Matthieu Joannon / Unsplash
Virtual meetings allowable in Ottawa
An Ottawa City Council resolution approved last night lets the city's boards and commissions meet virtually for a while longer. Mayor Dan Aussem says some members of the Ottawa Visitors Center Board a...
Nov 03, 2021
Judge says state can't allow barge fleeting proposal without legislature action
Part of a lawsuit to block a barge fleeting operation from being built in Grundy County is upheld. Judge Sheldon Sobol says allowing such an operation on the Illinois River requires an act of the Gene...
Nov 02, 2021
LaSalle County EMA director moving to health department
Connie Brooks says once a nurse, always a nurse. After directing the LaSalle County Emergency Management Agency for almost a decade, she's going back to work for the county health department. She'll b...
Nov 02, 2021 LaSalle County Emergency Management Agency Director Connie Brooks gives someone a COVID-19 vaccine. She'll be the LaSalle County Health Department's Director of Personal Health starting Nov. 29. Photo from LaSalle County Health Dept.
Peru police growing beards for Cops 4 Cancer fundraiser
Many Peru police officers will have an unusual appearance this month. The city's rules require them to be clean shaven. But for No Shave November, each one who raises at least $100 for Cops 4 Cancer i...
Nov 02, 2021 Igor Rodrigues / Unsplash
Oglesby firefighters to a get raise in new agreement with city council
Firefighters in Oglesby are getting a raise. The city council approved a new four-year agreement at Monday's meeting. Mayor Dominic Rivara says Fire Chief Ron Popurella will have his pay increased fro...
Nov 02, 2021
Honor guard vigil to be put on by American Legion in Ottawa
Starting Friday at 4:30 members of the American Legion Post 33 in Ottawa will start the Honor Guard Vigil in Washington Square Park. Event Chairman John Duback says this is the twelfth year the event ...
Nov 01, 2021 Ottawa's World War I casualty list earned Memorial Plaza a place in the Landmarks Illinois World War I monument database.
Deer hunting coming to Starved Rock, Matthiessen state parks
Deer hunting will be allowed at Starved Rock and Matthiessen state parks later this month, in December, and in January. State Parks Site Superintendent Alvin Harper says there are categories for hunte...
Nov 01, 2021
Cong. Kinzinger says he's all in for representing his district until he leaves the House
Cong. Adam Kinzinger says there are a lot of reasons he's not running for reelection. He says one has to do with the Republican Party not standing up for truth, such as by finding out what happened to...
Nov 01, 2021