City News

CARP – There’s a reason it’s called a winter carnival.

MacLAREN’S LANDING – MacLaren’s Landing-based author David Shackleton has tackled gender issues for decades, and as he gets set to publish his third book Shackleton is introducing a new word to the lexicon to describe the feminine collective shadow.

STITTSVILLE – Corkery writer Karine Di Cesare is launching her new children’s book next week (Feb. 15) and you’re sure to love it like you love lemonade.

CARP – Last week (Jan. 29) approximately 50 residents attended a City of Ottawa open house at the Carp Mess Hall to learn more about the city’s plans for the slated March Road and Old Carp Road/Donald B. Munro Drive intersection overhaul.

CARP – The Village of Carp Business Improvement Area (BIA) does a lot to market the village with very little, and last Friday (Jan. 30) we learned how they do it.

OTTAWA – “Picture yourself in your most traumatic situation and now you have to move,” Shelter Movers Ottawa Chapter director Heather Brisebois told West Carleton Online last week (Jan. 20).

CARP – Roughly 100 or more Carp Agricultural Society (CAS) members filled the agricultural hall Thursday (Jan. 22) evening to get a recap of the 162nd Carp Fair and witness the unveiling of the 2026 Carp Fair presidents.

CARP – Last week (Jan. 8) both Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe and West Carleton-March Coun. Clarke Kelly dropped by the Huntley Community Association’s (HCA) regular board meeting, and hard to believe, they weren’t even the guests of honour that night.

CONSTANCE BAY – It’s officially 2026, and in West Carleton the official way to welcome the New Year is to head to Branch 616 for its traditional New Year’s Levee.

DUNROBIN – If there is one word that describes the ReSource Rack, West Carleton’s free clothing store, it would be ‘resourceful.’