Category Archives: WCMY News
Three Deer Park School student taken to hospital as a precaution after school bus accident
A Deer Park School Bus was in an accident Thursday morning. It happened on E. 1251st road southwest of Ottawa or southeast of Utica. A person who works for the school says that three students and one ...
Sep 09, 2021
Plug pulled on Ottawa Uncorked; city not giving up on idea
The Ottawa City Council is pulling the plug on Ottawa Uncorked. Mayor Dan Aussem says the replacement for the 2 Rivers Wine and Jazz Festival didn't work out, so the company that ran it won't do it ne...
Sep 09, 2021
Fall armyworms are appearing in northern Illinois farm fields
Fall armyworms are showing up in farm fields in northern Illinois. Illinois Commercial Agricultural Educator Russ Higgins says he's been getting calls from farmers that are finding the worms in the ha...
Sep 08, 2021 USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab
Ottawa noise ordinance update on file
The noise ordinance update written in response to complaints about loud music from bars late at night is on file at Ottawa City Hall. The City Council could adopt it in two weeks. Mayor Dan Aussem bel...
Sep 08, 2021 Elyas Pasban / Unsplash
LaSalle County Coroner says missing person's case is separate from body found in river
LaSalle County Coroner Rich Ploch says as of right now the body found in the Illinois River and the missing persons case of Jelani Day are separate from each other. Ploch says an autopsy has been done...
Sep 08, 2021
Ottawa to raise Green St. above floodplain with state grant
A long awaited project that would keep Ottawa's Green St. open during floods could be done next year. Mayor Dan Aussem says the city got word of a $3.4 million state grant approval today. The city mus...
Sep 07, 2021 WCMY file photo of Green St. in Ottawa during a flood. The city plans to raise the street above the floodplain and have a passage to let water flow under it.
Storm drops large hail, causes power outages
Wednesday morning update Hail the size of golf balls fell in the Mendota and Earlville areas yesterday afternoon. The storm system caused power outages in northern and eastern LaSalle County. It cause...
Sep 07, 2021 NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory
United Way of Eastern LaSalle County calls for house captain volunteers
United Way of Eastern LaSalle County Executive Director Shelli Ocepek needs to hear from house captains for the Labor of Love soon. They're responsible for figuring out how to get done what needs to b...
Sep 07, 2021 WCMY file picture of a United Way of Eastern LaSalle County Labor of Love project
Record number of complaints involving COVID-19 payments, IRS says
The IRS is reminding people; don't click on links you don't know about from email or text. The IRS says there have been a record number of complaints about COVID-19 payments through the federal govern...
Sep 07, 2021 Bermix Studio / Unsplash
Vermilion River to be off limits to watercraft near Sandy Ford Bridge project area
The Vermilion River will be closed to kayaks, canoes, boats, and other users in the Sandy Ford Bridge area for more than a week. The LaSalle County Highway Department says the contractor working on th...
Sep 06, 2021 Wapster / CC