Tag: bradley-craig
Provide input for commemorative naming of Stittsville parks
The City of Ottawa is conducting public consultations on three separate naming proposals for Stittsville parks. The City wants to receive your written comments no later than Friday, August 27, 2021.
COMMUNITY NOTES: from the desk of Councillor Gower
It is a jam-packed week of information from Councillor Gower. He ensures that Stittsville residents are kept up-to-date on the important issues that effect our daily lives.
UPDATE: Richcraft fined $1,600 for Bradley-Craig barn maintenance
(PHOTO: The Bradley-Craig barn, under freshly-fallen snow. Photo by Rob Hambly.) Richcraft appeared in court on Thursday to answer to violations of the City’s Property Standards Bylaw relating to the…
PHOTOS: Celebrating the future of the Bradley-Craig Farm
About 40 “Friends of the Bradley-Craig Farm” assembled for a community photo today in front of the big red barn. We were celebrating this week’s great news: Richcraft Homes, the…
SUNDAY: Celebrate a new future for the Bradley-Craig Farm!
Richcraft, the company that owns the Bradley-Craig Farm on Hazeldean Road, released this statement on Tuesday: “We are not only keeping the barn in its current location and ensuring the…
NOTEBOOK: Richcraft says they’ll keep the Bradley-Craig barn on Hazeldean
(PHOTO: The Bradley-Craig barn, January 2018. Photo illustration by Barry Gray.) I’m cautiously optimistic after reading a statement today from Richcraft on the future of the Bradley-Craig Farm. The company…
CBC: Stittsville farm’s last inhabitant blasts developer’s inaction
(PHOTO: Norma and Eldon Craig inside the old farmhouse. The couple sold the property 12 years ago. Eldon passed away in 2016 at the age of 91.) Laurie Fagan from…
CBC: Fight to save historic Stittsville barn headed to court
(PHOTO: Construction equipment in front of the Bradley-Craig barn / January 2016. Photo by Dan Pak.) Laura Osman reports for CBC Ottawa: The City of Ottawa is taking Richcraft Homes to…
PHOTOS & UPDATE: The Bradley-Craig Farm, October 2017
Thank you to Mandy Hambly for sharing these beautiful photos of the Bradley-Craig Farm on Hazeldean Road. The sunset photos were taken on October 26, and the photo of the…
NOTEBOOK: Congestion pricing, cell phone tower, patio season
CONGESTION PRICING BACK ON THE RADAR Looks like the debate over “congestion pricing” might be coming to City Hall in the near future. That’s the idea of using financial incentives…
NOTEBOOK: LRT open houses, pedestrian safety upgrades, more
LRT OPEN HOUSES Watch for a open house events in June and November for updates on plans to extend light rail transit west past Moodie Drive towards Kanata and Stittsville. Kanata…
LETTER: A little house on Hazeldean
(EDITOR’S NOTE: It was a year ago this week that I joined several community members at a Planning Committee meeting at Ottawa City Hall to oppose Richcraft’s proposal to move…
NOTEBOOK: Stories we’re watching in 2017
Let’s take out the crystal ball and look ahead at what 2017 may have in store for Stittsville… CANADIAN TIRE CENTRE Earlier this year we should hear from the Ottawa Senators about what…
2016 REWIND: Looking back at the ups and downs in local heritage
(Above: Barn at the Bradley-Craig farm. Photo by Steve Garecke.) There was bad news and there was good news for heritage buildings in Stittsville in 2016. First, the bad. In…
Hazeldean farmer Eldon Craig passes away at age 91
(PHOTO: Bradley-Craig barn, March 2016. Photo by Barry Gray.) Eldon Craig farmed at the Bradley-Craig farm on Hazeldean Road with his wife Norma for 58 years. He passed away at…