Tag: goulbourn
UPDATE: No commemorative street names in this round
(PHOTO: Warner-Colpitts Lane is named after Sterling Warner and Ian Colpitts, two Stittsville volunteers who were instrumental in building the Johnny Leroux Arena.) Councillor Shad Qadri provided an update on…
COMMENT: New street names should honour community leaders
(PHOTO: Warner-Colpitts Lane is named after Sterling Warner and Ian Colpitts, two Stittsville volunteers who were instrumental in building the Johnny Leroux Arena. We should recognize more of our community…
UPDATE: City extends street name suggestion deadline to August 12
Several readers received emails today from Rebecca Anderson of the City’s Building Code Services department, alerting them to the fact that the City will be re-opening the consultation process for…
Lots of street name suggestions, but few meet City’s criteria
(ABOVE: Boxty, a traditional Irish potato pancake, was suggested as a new name by a Goulbourn Street resident.) UPDATE, JUNE 28: City extends street naming process to August 12 The…
LETTER: Where are the historical street names?
Re: Sugar Shack or Mitig? City offers new street name options Not one of the names suggested by the City of Ottawa for the six streets in question has any…
Sugar Shack or Mitig? City offers new street name options
Residents on several Stittsville streets received letters today with options for new road names. The City of Ottawa said back in January that six streets (Bell Street, Goulbourn Street, Elm Crescent, Long Meadow Way, Meadowland…
Public meeting on June 20 about Goulbourn / Flewellyn wetland study
(Above: Former farmland, now wetland along Flewellyn Road. Photo from November 2014.) The City of Ottawa is holding a long-awaited information meeting later this month to share the results of…
Video recounts 1938 Richmond bank robbery
John Curry, editor of the Stittsville News and local historian, went all out last Saturday afternoon as he presented the story of a bank robbery that happened in Richmond in…
LETTER: The man waving at the train is my grandfather
Re: Library display marks 25 years since Stittsville’s last VIA train The man waving in the beige jacket is my grandfather and the man driving the train is his best…
Library display marks 25 years since Stittsville’s last VIA train
Time flies, but it in this case I guess you could say it goes down the track. It’s been a quarter century since the last train passed through Stittsville, and…
Bradley-Craig farm sits on land that’s worth $1-million per acre
(ABOVE: “Bradley-Craig Barn (detail)” – Photo by Joe Newton.) Anyone who wants to redevelop the Bradley-Craig barn on Hazeldean Road is going to have some deep pockets. The serviced land…