Category Archives: WCMY News
The Ottawa Elementary School District will hire teachers to help students who struggled during the pandemic
Ottawa Elementary School District Superintendent Cleve Threadgill says it's typical that the district might spend a little more than projected in past budgets but this year they made up for it in reve...
Jun 17, 2021
At the end of the month Marseilles will start to accept bids for water and sewer extensions
After 40 years of waiting the city of Marseilles will soon start to accept bids for a water and sewer extension. The plan is for the project to start at 11th street and go up Rutland Street to the int...
Jun 17, 2021
Last meeting for retiring Seneca High Supt. Carlson
Seneca High School Supt. Jim Carlson has had his last school board meeting. He let the next superintendent, Dan Stecken, do most of the talking last night. Carlson is retiring with 33 years in educati...
Jun 17, 2021 Jim Carlson is working his last days as the superintendent at Seneca High School.
St. Rep. Demmer says governor should have used amendatory veto
St. Rep. Tom Demmer says there was a lot of stuff tucked into the 3,000-page budget bill that shouldn't have been there. The Dixon Republican says he wishes Gov. Pritzker had reviewed the budget like ...
Jun 16, 2021
Swamped--Ottawa's canal project challenges continue
Algae's growing on the newly watered part of the Illinois and Michigan Canal in Ottawa. A leak is letting out water in the wrong place, so it's not circulating enough to disrupt the growth. Helen Jo R...
Jun 16, 2021 The re-watered part of the Illinois and Michigan Canal wasn't supposed to look swampy, but it did in 2021.
The Starved Rock Lodge and Conference Center will have new owners
The Starved Rock Lodge and Conference Center has new management. Nolan Capital will be taking over from the previous owners. Chairman for the company Peter Nolan says the historic lodge is an impressi...
Jun 16, 2021
Ottawa Lions Club carnival beginning
The Ottawa Lions Club carnival starts this afternoon. It'll run from 4pm to 10pm each evening through Saturday. And it's the first Lions Club carnival in the city since 2019. Curt Bedei at the Ottawa ...
Jun 16, 2021 Alan Levine / CC
Fire chief estimates 8,000 wooden pallets burned in fire
An estimated 8,000 wooden pallets were on fire in that blaze south of Mendota Monday night. Winds fanned the flames and made them hard to fight. Mendota Fire Chief Dennis Rutishauser says 14 fire depa...
Jun 16, 2021 Mendota Fire Dept. picture of the pallet fire Monday night.
No energy bill from Ill. Senate; two nuclear power plants could close
Republican St. Sen. Sue Rezin blames Gov. Pritzker for the Senate not voting on an energy bill yesterday. She says there was an agreement on subsidizing Exelon's Byron and Dresden nuclear power plants...
Jun 16, 2021 Nuclear Regulatory Commission / CC
Peoria woman safe after Peru incident; police looking for man in reported abduction
Police found a woman in her 20's safe at an apartment in Peoria Tuesday. Peru Police Chief Doug Bernabei says now they want to find a man who may have forced her into a sport utility vehicle at 7th an...
Jun 15, 2021 Peru Police Chief Doug Bernabei holds a picture of Bobby A. Cross, wanted in connection with a possible abduction Monday.