Category Archives: WCMY News
The Starved Rock Country Festival of the Arts starts this weekend in Ottawa
The Starved Rock Country Festival of the Arts is starting this weekend. Local and visiting artists will present their art, music, and film to people in and around Ottawa. Pamela Beckett with the Starv...
Sep 21, 2021 Kyle Head / Unsplash
YMCA getting nearly $2 million from Rebuild Illinois for new building
The state of Illinois is giving almost $2 million to the Ottawa YMCA. That'll go toward the new building project. It will help pay for classroom space and a health care facility inside. The Y's projec...
Sep 21, 2021 Image of the Ottawa YMCA project, provided July 27, 2021
OHS Board sticking to mask requirement as some people continue questioning it
School boards continue to get questions about whether a mask mandate is the right thing to do. The Ottawa High School Board got the question from Tracy Lehman last night. She says government is being ...
Sep 21, 2021
Marseilles intersection realignment work begins with building demolition
The old gas station building at Main and Broadway streets in Marseilles is coming down. Demolition began this morning. It's part of the work needed to realign Broadway and Commercial streets so it's n...
Sep 20, 2021 Mayor Jim Hollenbeck Facebook photo of the former Bolatto's gas station demolition
Sanitary sewer main rehabilitation project underway in Ottawa
Sanitary sewer mains in Ottawa are being rehabilitated. The city says contractors are installing pipe liners into existing sewer pipelines. Commissioner Tom Ganiere says there won't be a lot of areas ...
Sep 20, 2021 Bill Smith / CC
Four blocks of W. Madison in Ottawa to close for repairs
Ottawa City Hall says four blocks of W. Madison St. will be closed from 9am to 9pm today for repairs. A contractor will pour concrete from an area in the 1000 block to an area in the 1300 block. That ...
Sep 20, 2021 This is part of W. Madison St. in Ottawa where water main work has made a mess of the street.
Some local charities have opportunity to earn grant money from Women Inspired Network
The Women Inspired Network will award $13,000 in grant funding this year. The funds are given by member and friends of WIN and then awarded through a competitive grant process. The group says local ch...
Sep 20, 2021
Invasive carp fishing tournament a Hall of Fame winner
A person who started a fishing tournament south of Peoria is an Illinois Conservation Foundation Hall of Fame winner. Betty DeFord was involved with the Redneck Fishing Tournament when it started in 2...
Sep 19, 2021 USFWS Mountain-Prairie
Burn bans in Utica, Cedar Point, Lostant, Mendota
The Utica Fire Protection District says only recreational fires are allowed until further notice. And those must be in specially designated areas away from buildings and other things that can burn. Re...
Sep 18, 2021
Small fire at JP Chevrolet
Peru fire fighters handled a small fire at JP Chevrolet on Frontage Rd. Friday evening. An outdoor ash tray appears to have been the flame source. There's damage outside an office where the wall and r...
Sep 18, 2021 Fire fighters spray the burned area at JP Chevrolet in Peru. Peru Fire Dept. photo