Category Archives: WCMY News
Ag program starting at Grand Ridge school
Terry Ahearn has been developing an agriculture program since he started as principal at Grand Ridge School five years ago. Some of the projects so far may not seem like part of an ag program. That's ...
Jun 22, 2021 Savannah River Site / CC
Schools ask to clear up COVID conundrums before classes resume
The mask requirement is puzzling. Everyone at the Ottawa High School Board meeting last night had masks on. Supt. Mike Cushing says athletes playing games wouldn't be required to have them though. Tha...
Jun 22, 2021
OSF Healthcare clinic will offer equipment for people to be able to live at home
Instead of having to stay at the hospital, OSF Healthcare is offering homecare for people to get what they need like walkers and C-PAP machines. The clinic, which is located right as you walk in, was ...
Jun 22, 2021
FBI agent says child abduction team helps Peru and many other communities with abduction cases
Peru Police Chief Doug Bernabei says he knows last week's apparent kidnapping shocked a lot of people who just don't expect it to happen around here. FBI Special Agent Jonathan Williamson with the Chi...
Jun 21, 2021 J / CC
Marseilles citizen wants the city to do more to quiet fireworks at night
A citizen of Marseilles says that there's an issue with fireworks being shot off and causing too much noise. Brad Miller says he would like to see the fines raised in the city for people shooting off ...
Jun 21, 2021
Dekalb man charged with Streator arson
An arson charge was filed over the weekend against 42-year old Nathaniel Austin of Dekalb. He's accused of setting a car on fire in Streator. Police say the car was burning in the 300 block of S. Park...
Jun 21, 2021
Radium girls story author to talk about new book
The Radium Girls author Kate Moore has a new book about a woman of the 1800's who defied her husband and ended up in an insane asylum for it. The book is called The Woman They Could Not Silence. Eliza...
Jun 21, 2021 WordRidden / CC
Dan Stecken soon to be superintendent at Seneca High
Jim Carlson says he doesn't feel like he had enough time during the last year to be a good mentor to Dan Stecken who's taking the superintendent's job at Seneca High School. Stecken disagrees. Stecken...
Jun 21, 2021 Dan Stecken at Seneca High School
Recorder of Deeds wants to raise fees for time share documents
It costs a lot more for the LaSalle County Recorder of Deeds to do some work than it charges for. The County Board is hiring a firm to do a cost study to justify raising the rates. And those rates cou...
Jun 20, 2021
FEMA offers help with funeral expenses for COVID-19 deaths
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is offering money to pay for funeral expenses for people who died of the coronavirus. The LaSalle County Emergency Management Agency says it won't cover pre-pai...
Jun 20, 2021