Category Archives: WCMY News
The University of Illinois Extension hosted a week long camp for kids to learn about different 4-H topics
The University of Illinois Extension held a camp for kids that featured creating projects from 4-H called Find Your Spark in the Park. Children from age eight to twelve went to Rotary Park in Lasalle ...
Jun 28, 2021 Alachua County / CC
IVCC starting dental hygiene program to keep those students local
In a little over two years, there'll be a dental hygiene program at Illinois Valley Community College. The time to start the program gives students applying for it time to take their prerequisite clas...
Jun 28, 2021 Jan Fidler / CC
McNabb teen gets two-year head start on college through dual credit courses
The dual credit program at Putnam County High School has enabled a McNabb teen to finish high school with a diploma and an associate's degree. Abigail Thompson went through Illinois Valley Community C...
Jun 26, 2021 IVCC provided this picture of Abigail Thompson who earned an associate's degree while earning her Putnam County High School diploma.
LaSalle County weekly report: a week without fatal COVID cases, no new cases among oldest people
LaSalle County has gone a week without any COVID-19 deaths. The county health department figures provided Friday show 12,918 cases known of altogether and 12,509 recoveries. There were 12 new cases an...
Jun 25, 2021
16th district Congressman Adam Kinzinger introduces bill that would help educate American's on cyber security
Congressman Adam Kinzinger, along with four other members of the House of Representatives has introduced a bill to create a campaign to increase knowledge on cyber security. The American Cyber Securit...
Jun 25, 2021 Richard Patterson / CC
Lasalle County Democratic Party chair calls the lawsuit filled by local GOP a misuse of taxpayer dollars
The lawsuit filed by the Lasalle County Republican Party is being called "an ongoing political circus" by the Lasalle County Democratic Party. Chair Dani Brzozowski says that it's unfortunate that the...
Jun 25, 2021
Party chairman wants a hearing into how much he should pay for court case over election results
The lawyer for LaSalle County Republican Party Chairman Larry Smith says Smith has some decisions to make. He didn't say during a court hearing this morning exactly what those decisions are. But they ...
Jun 25, 2021
New LaSalle County voter identification cards are in the mail
New voter identification cards have been mailed to 73,851 LaSalle County voters. County Clerk Lori Bongartz says unless you recently registered or updated your registration, you should get a card in t...
Jun 25, 2021
Streator man charged after child porn investigation
Several agencies were involved in an investigation that led to a 41-year old Streator man's arrest this week. Ryan P. Cook is charged with having child pornography and sharing it among multiple electr...
Jun 25, 2021
Scattered power outages from overnight storms
UPDATE: ComEd reports most of the Streator customers who lost power about 4:15am have it on again. There are fewer than five outages west of Streator. Lightning is blamed for the outages. Ameren repor...
Jun 25, 2021 Emmett Tullos / CC