City News

DUNROBIN – The Evolugen South March Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) open house Sunday (Feb. 23) packed the West Carleton Secondary School (WCSS) cafeteria as hundreds of people filed through shoulder-to-shoulder, especially in the early hours of the event, looking for answers on the project.

BUCKHAM’S BAY – The snow was flying, and the fish were biting at the 19th annual Constance Bay Kids Fishing Derby on Buckham’s Bay Feb. 16.

CARP – Although records show settlers arrived in this area in the early 1800s, longtime Huntley Township Historical Society (HTHS) board member Roger Thomas says West Carleton’s history goes back much further than that.

DUNROBIN – Each year, the Western Ottawa Community Resource Centre (WOCRC) covers a lot of ground in more ways than one.

KINBURN – While the majority of media looks for stories of young love on Valentine’s Day, West Carleton Online has been around long enough to know true love lasts the test of time.

FITZROY HARBOUR – For the first time in a handful of years, the Fitzroy Harbour Winter Carnival was able to celebrate in winter weather.

CARP – On Jan. 17, 45 community members from Carp and the surrounding Ottawa-West Carleton region came together for pizza, salad, climate learning and action workshop hosted by the Community Associations For Environmental Sustainability (CAFES) Ottawa and St. Paul’s Carp United Church.

KANATA – It was a full house for lunch, a talk on the province’s electricity grid, the important role Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) will play and just how much power Kanata’s tech hub needs Thursday (Jan. 30).

DUNROBIN – Last Sunday (Jan. 26) was round up time for Hank the horse.

DUNROBIN – Last week (Jan. 20) Evolugen, the Canadian operations business for Brookfield Renewables announced in a letter to West Carleton Online, they have selected a site just off Marchurst Road, approximately 3.4 kilometres from the village of Dunrobin, for a proposed Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) installation.