Police seek witnesses to fatal crash at Fernbank-Eagleson Sunday
UPDATE, Oct 31: (via Ottawa Police) The Ottawa Police Collision Investigation Unit is investigating a fatal collision which occurred at 5:35 pm on October 30, at the intersection of Eagleson…
PHOTOS: La Course des Patriotes at Ecole Paul-D
École secondaire catholique Paul-Desmarais hosted the inaugural edition of La course des Patriotes on Saturday morning. Over 400 students and residents registered for the 2km, 5km, and 10km races. It’s partly an effort…
No funding for Stittsville public high school this year
The province of Ontario has announced funding for 28 new school projects this year, but a public high school in Stittsville won’t be one of them.
PHOTOS: Snow? Oh no!
All photos by Barry Gray.
Stittsville’s spookiest Halloween displays (2016)
(Photo by Barry Gray.) Where are Stittsville’s most ghoulish and gruesome haunted houses, garages, and front lawns? Here are some suggestions:
It’s flu (clinic) season!
It’s flu season – everybody’s favourite time of year (after Festivus.) If you’d rather avoid the fever, cough, aches, sores, congestion, occasional vomiting and other… symptoms, you’ll probably want to get…
PHOTO: Red barn on Huntley Road
“This is a shot this morning of that wonderful farm outside Stittsville on the way to Richmond on Huntley Road.” Photo by Barry Gray. (We love seeing photos from in…
“Ghoul”bourn Street haunted backyard opens Oct 29-31
Better night tonight to get stuff done. #GoulbournStHaunt. #Stittsville #halloween pic.twitter.com/EzXwqYMoj6 — Barking Dog (@GoulbournHaunt1) October 25, 2016 Joe Chenette of “Ghoul”bourn Street sent along a note to let us…
Jim Bryson to play Crossroads jazz series at the NAC
Jim Bryson will be one of the featured artists this spring as part of the National Arts Centre’s CROSSROADS Jazz Series. The series is directed by Ottawa Jazz Festival programming manager Petr Cancura,…
Job fairs at Community Employment Resource Centre this week
(via CERC) The Community Employment Resource Centre (CERC) in Kanata (415 Hazeldean Road near Eagleson) is hosting a series of local job fairs this week with businesses including Food Basics, Tim Hortons…
COMMENT: The good and the bad of Ottawa’s proposed new water rates
(Construction is underway for the Kanata West Pump Station on Maple Grove Road, part of a $60-million sewer infrastructure project in Kanata-Stittsville. This photo is from last April.) Four things…
NOTEBOOK: 9RunRun attendance boost, Jinkinson re-zoning, Kungfu lunches
9RUNRUN ATTENDANCE BOOST The final fundraising tally for last week’s 9RunRun won’t be available until November but the attendance numbers are encouraging. Organizer Brenda Tirrell says that combined, the three races…
Stittsville South construction resumes, and that means more blasting
After a few months of delay because of missing permits, construction is proceeding south of the Westwind community in what’s known as Stittsville South. That construction involves a lot of…
Official renaming for Erica Wiebe Gymnasium is on November 1
(via Councillor Shad Qadri) As announced at her homecoming party on August 25th, the Goulbourn Recreation Complex (GRC) Gymnasium will be undergoing a commemorative naming for Olympic gold-medalist and Stittsville-born…
PHOTOS: A collection of autumn colours
Thank you to our readers who keep sending in their great pics of fall foliage. The colours this year are incredible. (We love seeing photos from in and around our community. Please…