Category Archives: WCMY News
Auditor candidate announces breast cancer diagnosis, tells women to get mammograms
Nikki Baer, who is running for auditor in LaSalle County, announced yesterday that she has breast cancer. She's encouraging women to have mammograms because that's how her cancer was found and early d...
Jun 17, 2020
Uncertainty ahead for Ottawa Grade School District
Among the many unknowns of the coronavirus pandemic is what school will look like in the fall. Ottawa Grade School Supt. Cleve Threadgill told the board of education on Tuesday that even if the state ...
Jun 16, 2020
Ottawa may ban alley pickup of residential garbage
If you live in Ottawa and take your garbage out to the alley for pickup, you might soon have to change. An ordinance the City Council put on file Tuesday night would require residential pickup on the ...
Jun 16, 2020
Only one new COVID-19 case in LaSalle County
LaSalle County COVID-19 cases are still at 183. The health department on Tuesday added one new case, but removed another reported on Monday because the patient ended up not being from LaSalle County. ...
Jun 16, 2020
There's still time to file old tax returns
People who didn't file tax returns as far back as 2016 still have time. IRS spokesman Michael Devine says you could be missing out on money owed to you. In 2015, Devine says more 45,000 Illinoisans - ...
Jun 16, 2020
Men charged this week with sexual assaults that happened in 2006 and 2008
Ottawa police got a report last month of a sexual assault that happened more than a decade ago. The investigation has led to charges against two men. Detective Corporal Marc Hoster says 29-year old Jo...
Jun 16, 2020
Two-part traffic crash claims man's life northeast of Seneca
A Chicago man died in a traffic crash on Interstate 80 near the Seneca exit early this morning. Grundy County Coroner John Callahan says 20-year old Jake C. Enblom hit a guardrail from the eastbound l...
Jun 16, 2020
School administrators plan for many possibilities when the new school year starts
School administrators are preparing for several possibilities when the new school year starts in August. Between the guidelines from the Illinois State Board of Education and the Illinois Department o...
Jun 16, 2020
IVCH easing visitor restrictions
Illinois Valley Community Hospital will now allow patients on the medical floor and in the intensive care unit to have one visitor. The patient must designate who the visitor will be. The visitor must...
Jun 15, 2020
Three new COVID-19 cases in LaSalle County; five new recoveries
The LaSalle County Health Department reported three new COVID-19 cases on Monday. The cases are a male teen, a man in his thirties, and a man in his fifties. The county is up to 183 cases and 121 reco...
Jun 15, 2020