Category Archives: WCMY News
Mendota woman charged with child endangerment after cooking fire
A small child left alone in a Mendota apartment last Friday is doing well after a fire inside. But a woman who allegedly left the child there is facing child endangerment charges. Mendota police arres...
Aug 19, 2020
COVID-19 figures for Wednesday, August 19
The LaSalle County Health Department says two additional people have died due to COVID-19 on Wednesday. A total of 37 people have died because of the virus in LaSalle County. The individuals are a man...
Aug 19, 2020
Power companies don't have to pay for your spoiled food after an outage, but you can ask
ComEd and Ameren say they're not required to reimburse customers for damages because of storms that cause power outages. Nevertheless, you can make a claim and see how it goes. Tens of thousands of cu...
Aug 19, 2020
Twenty-one names added to Middle East conflicts wall; ceremony will be Saturday
Twenty-one more names have been added to the Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial in Marseilles this year. They are men and women from the American military killed in military action in that part of th...
Aug 19, 2020
Schools will share health information about students to fight COVID-19
In the effort to keep the coronavirus out of schools, the state has a policy of keeping entire sets of siblings home if any of them are sick. Supt. Cleve Threadgill talked about it before the Ottawa E...
Aug 19, 2020
COVID-19 statistics for Tuesday, August 18
One more LaSalle County resident has from the coronavirus. The county health department says the individual was a woman in her eighties. A total of 35 people have died because of the virus in the coun...
Aug 18, 2020
LaSalle County GOP chairman predicts big wins this year
While Democrats are having their virtual convention this week and aiming for a big finish in November, LaSalle County Republican Party Chairman Larry Smith believes 2020 will be good for his party. Sm...
Aug 18, 2020
Cong. Kinzinger says he'll vote to support postal service
Cong. Adam Kinzinger says the U.S. Postal Service is a constitutional function of government and should be funded. He's not sure he'll support funding it all the way up to $25 billion though. He and o...
Aug 18, 2020
One quarter at a time, Ottawa High students return for new school year
Ottawa High School Supt. Mike Cushing says fewer than 300 students were in the building for the first day of school Monday. Up to a quarter of students are to be there on a given day Monday through Th...
Aug 18, 2020
Superintendent updates school board on derecho damage at Ottawa High
Last Monday's wind storm caused some damage at Ottawa High School, but students are returning for class this week. Supt. Mike Cushing says a tree service will return on the weekend to deal with big br...
Aug 18, 2020