Category Archives: WCMY News
LaSalle County GOP hosting meet-and-greet
The LaSalle County Republican Party will host several local office holders for a meet and greet Tuesday. It'll be from 6pm to 8pm at Jamie's Outpost in Utica. County Board Chairman Don Jensen, Treasur...
Sep 12, 2021
Bill Hunt joins IVCC board
The newly appointed member of the Illinois Valley Community College Board of Trustees joined the board for his first meeting last week. Bill Hunt lives in Oglesby and was on the Mendota City Council f...
Sep 12, 2021 IVCC photo of Bill Hunt and Jane Goetz from the Board of Trustees at Thursday's meeting.
September 11th attacks and response remembered
At a ceremony in Marseilles Saturday, several people recalled what they were doing at work or at school when the terrorist attacks happened on September 11, 2001. The event was at the Middle East Conf...
Sep 11, 2021 The crowd gathered at the Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial to remember the September 11th terrorist attacks of 20 years ago.
Former Speaker Hastert's sexual abuse accuser to be named in trial
YORKVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A man who accused Dennis Hastert of child sexual abuse then sued the former U.S. House speaker for refusing to pay $1.8m in exchange for his silence will be named in court if hi...
Sep 11, 2021
St. Rep. Lance Yednock urges disaster preparedness
For National Preparedness Month, St. Rep. Lance Yednock is recommending that people make disaster readiness kits. A kit should have flashlights, batteries, food, water, medicine, and other things you ...
Sep 11, 2021
Weekly coronavirus statistics: two more fatal LaSalle County cases
Two LaSalle County men, one in his 60's and one in his 80's, died of COVID-19 during the last week. The county's health department says that makes 331 fatal cases so far out of 14,210 cases. It's a fa...
Sep 10, 2021
Ottawa St. Rep Lance Yednock says state needs to preserve reliability of nuclear energy
St Rep. Lance Yednock of Ottawa says the state needs to preserve the reliability of energy generated by nuclear power. Yednock says the new energy bill passed in the house Thursday is a way to be able...
Sep 10, 2021
Third crow this year from LaSalle County tests positive for West Nile Virus
A third dead crow from LaSalle County has tested positive for West Nile Virus. It was the second one from Streator. The county health department says the bird was found in Streator yesterday and teste...
Sep 10, 2021 Mark Hillary / CC
Ottawa police have a person of interest in shooting northeast of city
Ottawa police have named a suspect who is accused of shooting at two people in the parking lot of the Silver Slipper Saloon last month. Detective Sgt. Kyle Booras says they are looking for 34-year old...
Sep 10, 2021
Oglesby re-signs contract with U.S EPA
Oglesby Commissioner Jason Curran says the city re-signed an agreement with the U.S Environmental Protection Agency. He says the EPA did some changes to the language in the contract to build a new was...
Sep 10, 2021