Category: News
Lots of room on the new Blackstone shuttle bus today
The long-awaited Blackstone shuttle bus hit the road for the first time this morning to mixed reviews. Here are a few tweets we received from one of the Blackstone residents.
Free ‘luxury’ shuttle bus starts August 31 for Blackstone, Fernbank Crossing residents
UPDATE (Sept 11): StittsvilleCentral.ca asked OC Transpo what route buses would take once OC Transpo starts serving the Blackstone community. Here’s an email response attributed to Pat Scrimgeour, AGM, Customer…
Comments of the week: Roundabouts, safety signs, wetlands, more
Every week we get lots of comments from our readers on our web site, via email, and social media. Here’s a sample of what we heard this week. Add your thoughts…
Developer exasperated by vandalism to heritage home
The owner of a 19th century stone farmhouse on Huntmar Drive says he doesn’t know what else he can do to stop vandalism on his property. Robert Karam has owned…
Guitar stolen from Kathleen Edwards’ home in Stittsville
UPDATE: By Thursday at 9:30pm, Edwards’ post on Facebook had been shared an incredible 14,390 shares. Musician Kathleen Edwards, owner of Quitters Coffee on Stittsville Main Street, posted on Facebook today…
City staff rejects roundabouts for Carp Road
(Photo: Phil Sweetnam and the Stittsville Village Association supported roundabouts for at least some of the intersections on Carp Road. He told StittsvilleCentral.ca earlier this summer that roundabouts work well…
Tow truck driver hit on Queensway while responding to collision
UPDATE SEPT. 1: CBC reports that the tow truck driver is still in hospital, and that a woman from Smiths Falls has been charged with having worn tires after Aug. 26…
City Council approves Stittsville Main Street community design plan
(Photo: City of Ottawa planner Mark Young presented the new draft plan for Stittsville Main Street at a public meeting on May 20.) EDITOR’S NOTE: City Council approved the Stittsville Main…
Stalled Hyde Park development in Richmond sold to new developer
Stittsville isn’t the only community with a large unfinished residential project. The Hyde Park project was supposed to be a 92-unit retirement residence. It went into receivership in the spring of…
Junior B hockey team will play as Royals, not RAMS this season
(Above: Stittsville Rams Junior B players salute their fans after losing to the Casselman Vikings in the EOJHL finals last April. Photo by Barry Gray / StittsvilleCentral.ca) Stittsville’s Junior B hockey team announced on…
COMMENT: Safety campaign is a sign of failure
EDITOR’S NOTE: The “Please Stop For Us” signs are sprouting up like wild parsnip all over Stittsville and other parts of the city. The sign pictured above is on a…
LINKED: Metro, Citizen profile Carleton riding candidates
Metro and the Ottawa Citizen each published their own mini-profiles of Carleton riding candidates this weekend. Metro has four articles: Coyne Larocque Rodgers Poilievre …and The Citizen has all in…
Stittsville student launches neighbourhood podcast
(Photo by Jordan Mady.) Stittsville news has been covered primarily in print for a long time. Sacred Heart student Devyn Barrie is trying to change that. At the age of 16,…
Pipeline risks outweigh benefits, says Ontario Energy Board report
(ABOVE: Energy East pipeline route, looking south from Jinkinson Road. Via Google Maps.) Last week, the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) released a report on the proposed Energy East pipeline that raises…
LINKED: Homeowner must repair damage to driveway caused by culvert on city property
From CFRA: Susan Edmondson told CFRA over the years the culvert running under her driveway on Cloverloft Court has caused it to buckle. “Obviously because of the hump here it…