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Concerns over discoloured water at Sacred Heart
Staff at Sacred Heart High School sent a note home to parents today after concerns about water contamination : I would like to inform parents and guardians about a situation that…
Fire hydrant testing begins this week
(Press release from the City of Ottawa.) The City of Ottawa will be testing about 10,000 fire hydrants in the south, central and west ends of the City beginning today…
City and developer agree on further study of 6279 Fernbank
(Photo: Ian McKim, Jillian McKim, Gerry Kroll and Keldine FitzGerald stand in front of the land at 6279 Fernbank Road last fall. Photo by Barry Gray.) An Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) hearing about…
Firefighters respond to hay fire near Rothbourne & Moonstone
Ottawa firefighters responded to what they described as a “large hay stack” on fire near Rothbourne and Moonstone, just west of Carp Road around 10:40am on Monday morning. The fire was quickly…
Fire on Lloydalex leaves five people homeless
A fire at 122 Lloydalex Crescent on Saturday afternoon has left five people homeless, including two adults and two kids from one unit, and a woman from another. There…
VIDEO: Raising the hydro poles along Huntmar
“On my way to work yesterday, I noticed that Hydro One was in the process of erecting the replacement wood hydro poles along Huntmar,” says videographer Hien Hoang. “I quickly…
Holly the lost Goldendoodle may be hiding near Timbermere area
Last Sunday, about a dozen volunteers searched the fields west of Timbermere between Hazeldean and Rothbourne for Holly the Goldendoodle. She’s the dog who went missing back in December on…
Update meeting for Stittsville Main design plan on May 20
City staff will host a public meeting to provide an update on the Stittsville Main Street Community Design Plan (CDP) on Wednesday, May 20 at 7:30pm at the Goulbourn Recreation…
George Escher donates famous father’s art to National Gallery
(Above: George Escher, son of artist M.C. Escher, holding a print of one of his father’s drawings, Hand with Reflecting Sphere, from January 1935. The drawing shows the room that George grew…
PHOTOS: Hair Donation event collects over $115,000 and 10,000 inches of hair
(Above: City councillor Shad Qadri had his head shaved as part of Sunday’s fundraising event at Algonquin College. Wayne Patrick from Shears in Stittsville has the razor in hand and…
Low water pressure on Fringewood due to repairs
Some residents in the Fringewood South area may experience low water pressure today. City crews are repairing a broken waterman valve on Fringewood Drive.
Search party on Sunday for Holly the goldendoodle
There’s a search party today for Holly, the 7-year-old goldendoodle. The dog went missing in December along the Trans Canada Trail in Stittsville. The search party is heading out in…
One person dead after car crash near Eagleson and Fallowfield
(Above: An Infiniti-brand car involved in a fatal early morning single-vehicle collision on Fallowfield Rd. at Eagleson Rd. is removed from the scene on a flatbed truck. Photo by Mike Carroccetto.)…
Original Sens owner Bruce Firestone plans book about the team’s founding
(ABOVE: In a video from the early 1990s, Bruce Firestone talks to reporters on the Huntmar Bridge overlooking the farmer’s field that would eventually become the Palladium, now known as Canadian…
Companies and individuals linked to Richcraft donated nearly $50k to campaigns
Corporations and individuals closely linked to one of Ottawa’s largest home builders made a combined $47,850 in donations to municipal candidates in the 2014 election.