Category Archives: WCMY News
County Board wants to cut fees for some junk drop-offs at landfill
LaSalle County Board members want Landcomp to cut the fee for taking a pickup truck load of junk to the landfill in half. The company currently charges at least $169 per pickup truck load, based on a ...
May 9, 2020
Illinois police say Iowa man not involved in 1992 Tammy Zywicki case
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Authorities in Illinois say an Iowa man charged in 1990s serial killings “does not appear to have been involved” in the unsolved 1992 slaying of a college student. T...
May 9, 2020
Corn Belt Energy to issue capital credits as bill credits
Corn Belt Energy has switched from sending checks to its co-op members to giving them bill credits for capital credits. When the co-op has money left over from capital improvements, it's paid back to ...
May 9, 2020
Serena Fire Chief Rodney Reese has died
Rodney Reese is being described as a friend and mentor to everyone he met through the fire service. The retired Serena fire chief had been with the department for 49 years, according to an announcemen...
May 8, 2020
Two more people from LaSalle County die after testing positive for COVID-19
Two more people from LaSalle County who tested positive for COVID-19 have died. The LaSalle County Health Department says one was a woman in her forties and the other was a woman in her sixties. Four ...
May 8, 2020
Marseilles seeking grant for water/sewer expansion to I-80
Marseilles City Hall is asking for a state grant to fund infrastructure construction out to I-80 north of town. Mayor Jim Hollenbeck says the city has almost annexed its way all the way to the interst...
May 8, 2020
June electronics recycling event still on
The LaSalle County Environmental Services and Land Use Department will have the next scheduled electronics recycling event-as scheduled. The March event was cancelled because of Gov. Pritzker's shutdo...
May 8, 2020
County Board nixes pay increases for elected officials including themselves
Joe SavitchThe LaSalle County Board Chairman, Circuit Clerk, Auditor, Coroner and Recorder of Deeds may not get salary increases when the new terms start in December. The County Board Thursday voted t...
May 8, 2020
Ottawa and Mendota teachers receive Excellence in Education Award
A reading specialist of nearly thirty years is one of the recipients of the Regional Office of Education for LaSalle, Marshall, and Putnam Counties' Excellence in Education Awards. Beth Woolley has sp...
May 7, 2020
LaSalle County tax payers may pay first installments up to two months late without penalties
Given the option of paying their property tax first installments late without penalties, will LaSalle County property owners hold out even if they don't have to? The county will find out this summer. ...
May 7, 2020