School board expects withdrawal of services, not strike on Monday
(Here’s a letter sent out to parents from the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board on Thursday afternoon.) Dear Parents and Guardians: The OCDSB, like all public school districts in Ontario, is…
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…
Stereo and tv shop pulls the plug on Stittsville location
Stereo Plus and Design has pulled the plug on their Stittsville location on Stittsville Main Street. They were located next to the Farm Boy in a building that used to…
Songwriter Howie Hooper at Gaia Java on May 8
Howie has walked his own path to being recognized as a crafter of song. Starting as a performing musician (bassist) in local bands in Ottawa at 13 years of age,…
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…
Catholic board says no labour disruptions pending
(Press release from the Ottawa Catholic School Board.) At this time, the Ottawa Catholic School Board does not have any labour disruptions pending. For your information, there are three different…
Long-time nursery school teachers set to retire
(Photo: Sue Blackhall (left) and Judy Starr are two teachers at Stittsville Co-Operative Nursery School who are retiring this year after many years of working at the facility. Photo by…
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…
MAPPED: A list of (legal) off-leash dog parks around Stittsville
(Photo: At the dog park by Michelle Tribe. Used under Creative Commons license.) Here’s a map showing parks in Stittsville and surrounding wards where dogs are allowed off-leash. Dogs always…
Westwind students paint the town red, blue, yellow, green, pink and more
Pablo Picasso is famous for saying that it took him a lifetime to learn to paint like a four year old. If only he could have seen the works of…
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…
Public elementary teachers in legal strike position May 10
The following is an email sent to parents today from Jennifer Adams, Director of Education for the Ottawa Carleton District School Board.