Category Archives: WCMY News
Oglesby City Council considers delaying electric rate adjustment, cutting some businesses' rates
The Oglesby City Council is considering moving the annual electric rate adjustment from June 1st to January 1st. Commissioner Jason Curran says it's poorly timed in the summer. A proposal on file at C...
Mar 16, 2021
Oglesby discovers leftover derecho damage to sewer line
The city of Oglesby cleaned up a leftover derecho problem it didn't know it had until last week. City Commissioner Jason Curran says the August wind blast caused a sewer break. Curran says the break d...
Mar 16, 2021
Health department says check your email if you registered for COVID-19 shots
The LaSalle County Health Department is having COVID-19 vaccine clinics today and Thursday at Illinois Valley Community College. Another will be held Friday at LaSalle-Peru High School. The department...
Mar 16, 2021 LaSalle County Emergency Management Agency Director Connie Brooks gives someone a COVID-19 vaccine. She'll be the LaSalle County Health Department's Director of Personal Health starting Nov. 29. Photo from LaSalle County Health Dept.
Ottawa High administration evaluating more in-person learning
Nothing's certain yet, but Supt. Mike Cushing says Ottawa High School could soon let in-person students attend for more than two days a week. As more teachers get the second doses of the COVID-19 vacc...
Mar 16, 2021
UPDATE: New Ill. 178 bridge to close while old bridge comes down Thursday
UPDATE: The old bridge demolition has been postponed until Thursday because of the weather forecast. The new Illinois 178 bridge over the Illinois River at Utica will be closed for a few hours tomorro...
Mar 16, 2021
Scattered power outages affect area
Scattered power outages, likely caused by the weather, have been affecting the area since the noon hour. Ameren Illinois estimates restoration times of late this afternoon to early evening. Ameren are...
Mar 15, 2021
IVCC is part of partnership with ISU to overcome teacher shortage
Illinois State University is hoping to attract community college students interested in being teachers. Through a program called CommuniTeach, five community colleges will enable their students to tak...
Mar 15, 2021
Ten vehicle pileup blamed on smoky grass fire; Ottawa woman seriously hurt
A very smoky grass fire northwest of Wenona is blamed for a traffic pileup on Interstate 39 Saturday afternoon. State Police say cars, vans, SUV's, and a tractor trailer truck were in the crash. Their...
Mar 15, 2021
Early voting underway with three weeks until Election Day
Early voting has begun for the April 6 consolidated election. LaSalle County Clerk Lori Bongartz says it's being done in person from 8am to 4:30pm Monday through Friday and 8am to noon on Saturdays on...
Mar 15, 2021
LaSalle County Tea Party founder Art Havenhill has died
Arrangements are being made at a funeral home in Franklin, North Carolina for Art Havenhill. When he lived in Seneca in 2010, he founded a Tea Party group for LaSalle and Bureau counties. Eventually, ...
Mar 15, 2021