Category Archives: WCMY News
NCAT to upgrade to electronic payment system
North Central Area Transit is buying an electronic payment system. Ottawa City Commissioner Wayne Eichelkraut says NCAT customers will be able to use an NCAT card to load funds onto for taking rides. ...
Jun 03, 2020
IVCC president says respect the essential dignity of each person
Illinois Valley Community College President Jerry Corcoran says he hopes and prays the destruction and looting following the death of George Floyd will end. Corcoran says IVCC's core values of respect...
Jun 03, 2020
Seneca man identified in fatal motorcycle crash
A Seneca man has been identified as the person who lost his life in a motorcycle crash in Norway Tuesday night. The county coroner's office named him as 50-year-old Burl T. Owen. Sheriff's deputies sa...
Jun 03, 2020
Motorcyclist dies in crash in Norway
A 50-year old man lost his life in a crash involving a motorcycle and a deer last night in Norway. LaSalle County deputies say the man was northbound on County Highway 3 when a deer ran onto the roadw...
Jun 03, 2020
Black Lives Matter demonstrators strike up dialogue with Ottawa Police Chief
UPDATE: A protest was in the works for LaSalle today, but it has been cancelled due to the weather. Organizer Angel Patterson says she’s trying to plan it for next Wednesday. A large group of Bl...
Jun 02, 2020
Two more coronavirus deaths and four more recoveries in LaSalle County
The LaSalle County Health Department says a man in his 70s and a woman in her 90s are the two latest fatal cases of the COVID-19 virus in the county. That brings to 15 the number of deaths in the coun...
Jun 02, 2020
Record low mortgage interest rates keep lenders busy with applications
The pandemic isn't stopping people from applying for new home loans and refinancing while mortgage rates are at record lows. Nikki Youngsma, a mortgage officer at Financial Plus Credit Union, says shu...
Jun 02, 2020
Man found in river was one of two missing fishermen
The man whose body was found in the Illinois River by Covel Creek west of Ottawa Saturday had fallen into the water while fishing 70 miles away in Kankakee, Conservation Police confirmed Tuesday. Fort...
Jun 02, 2020
Marseilles implements city fines to use instead of criminal charges for businesses disobeying executive orders
The Marseilles City Council last week passed an ordinance that establishes city level violations for disobeying rules set by the governor during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mayor Jim Hollenbeck says he doe...
Jun 02, 2020
People on edge over threat that doesn't materialize
Anxiety and rumors got the best of a lot of people in the area yesterday as they exaggerated ordinary local crime stories into tales of looters coming from outside the area to cause mayhem. People ret...
Jun 02, 2020