Category Archives: WCMY News
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 8, 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 8, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 6, 2021 Wapster / CC
American Association of University Women is looking for volunteers
American Association of University Women Chapter President Olivia Romine says the Ottawa chapter only has seven women left. She says the organization is accepting volunteers. Romine says they have to ...
Sep 6, 2021 Book Catalog / CC
School resource officer program supported in Ottawa
Ottawa's police department is supplying three school resource officers. Police Chief Brent Roalson says there wasn't much for them to do in the schools during the pandemic shutdown. Those shutdowns al...
Sep 6, 2021
IVCC offers tutoring for high school students
Free tutoring is available for high school students through Illinois Valley Community College. It's available from 3pm to 7pm on Mondays on the Oglesby campus and from 3pm to 7pm on Wednesdays at the ...
Sep 5, 2021 Upward Bound Edison State College / CC