Category Archives: WCMY News
IVCC Board to review three capital improvement projects
The Illinois Valley Community College Board of Trustees will review three capital improvement projects next month. One is the agricultural center, which has been in the works for a few years. It will ...
Aug 31, 2020
COVID-19 statistics for Sunday, August 30
LaSalle County's COVID-19 count climbed to 1,244 cases so far with the addition of 21 cases Sunday. The LaSalle County Health Department reported no new recoveries and no new deaths. Those figures hol...
Aug 31, 2020
Illinois Farm Bureau Adopt-A-Legislator program approaches 20 years
The Illinois Farm Bureau's Adopt-A-Legislator program has been meeting virtually for the most part during the pandemic. Executive Director Mark Gebhards says the program invites legislators from Chica...
Aug 30, 2020
IDNR asks fishers to clean up after themselves
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is reminding fishers to clean up after themselves. Trash left behind has become a big problem at Clinton Lake in central Illinois. Conservation Police Sgt....
Aug 29, 2020
COVID-19 statistics for Saturday, August 29
LaSalle County’s cumulative coronavirus case count grew by 15 Saturday to 1,223. Recoveries and deaths held at 666 and 45, respectively. The figures come from the LaSalle County Health Departmen...
Aug 29, 2020
Streator High reports staff out of quarantine, but more students are in
Streator High School says none of its staff are quarantined anymore. But 75 of its students are. There are three in-person learning positive coronavirus cases there and one among remote learners. One ...
Aug 29, 2020
COVID-19 statistics for LaSalle County and Illinois for Friday, August 28
LaSalle County's coronavirus statistics for Friday: Twenty-six new cases make 1,208 altogether. Two more recoveries add up to 666. No additional deaths were noted, so the number remains at 45. Those f...
Aug 28, 2020
UPDATED with heroin charge: Numerous charges filed with more possible after Mendota area chase
Story update: Mendota police say a 38-year old man arrested after a car chase and then a foot chase Thursday is wanted in Oregon on heroin charges. Joshua N. Hamrick also may have stolen the car he dr...
Aug 28, 2020
One month to go and around 30% of households haven't answered the census
Across the state of Illinois, about 69% of households have answered the 2020 census. Ellisa Johnson, a regional director at the Census Bureau, says LaSalle County is at about the same level of partici...
Aug 28, 2020
Electronics recycling event Saturday--registration required
After the electronics recycling event at the Etna Rd. courthouse in Ottawa Saturday, the next one for LaSalle County will be in a little over a month. That'll be on Saturday, October 3. The Environmen...
Aug 28, 2020