Perpetual Construction Zone for Many Residents Ensnared in the Greenfield/Main/Hawthorne Project OPINION: Hydro One and The Uglification of Centennial Boulevard Do I Smell A Rat? Job Opening – The Pied Piper of Hamelin needed in Old Ottawa East
The Greening of Colonel By Drive – NCC Will Address Lopsided Canal Tree Coverage

The Greening of Colonel By Drive – NCC Will Address Lopsided Canal Tree Coverage

Mainstreeter Staff Improvements to the tree-barren stretches of Colonel By Drive will be made, MP Yasir Naqvi told Old Ottawa East (OOE) residents at the recent OOE Community Association (OOECA)… Read more »

VOLUNTEERING – The Sandwich Club: Canadian Martyrs Church, Centre 507 Team Up to Feed The Needy

VOLUNTEERING – The Sandwich Club: Canadian Martyrs Church, Centre 507 Team Up to Feed The Needy

Adele Casuga The Canadian Martyrs Parish – Centre 507 Sandwich Club had about 4000 reasons to celebrate on October 22. Leslie Walker, member of District 27 Council, presented a $4,000… Read more »

Sharing Lunch With …… OOE’s Noah Porter MacLennan

Sharing Lunch With …… OOE’s Noah Porter MacLennan

Mainstreeter Staff Meet Canada’s newest star in the Big Air skies To say that Noah Porter MacLennan’s recent World Cup silver medal at the opening Big Air freestyle skiing competition… Read more »

A Floating Education Adventure for Youth Aboard the Polar Prince, the Students on Ice Foundation Opens a World of Possibility, Inspiration and Curiosity

A Floating Education Adventure for Youth Aboard the Polar Prince, the Students on Ice Foundation Opens a World of Possibility, Inspiration and Curiosity

Peter Croal Old Ottawa East resident Peter Croal volunteered as an educator for 24 youth on a two-week-long voyage of discovery circling Sable Island and Cape Breton. This is his… Read more »

Traffic would be shifted to Hawthorne and Main: Highway 417 bridge replacement proposal calls for two-year detour of Colonel By Drive

Traffic would be shifted to Hawthorne and Main: Highway 417 bridge replacement proposal calls for two-year detour of Colonel By Drive

John Dance After five years of study and limited consultation, the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO) now proposes that, beginning in 2028 and for almost two years, both Colonel… Read more »

Gray Jay Hospitality takes flight, but the Tartellete Bakery set to rise in February

Gray Jay Hospitality takes flight, but the Tartellete Bakery set to rise in February

Mainstreeter Staff The community’s flirtation with gourmet dining has proven to be a brief one, as Gray Jay Hospitality restaurant at Colonel By Drive and Hawthorne Avenue announced early this… Read more »

Plan to build a Rideau River footbridge gains endorsements, but issues remain

Plan to build a Rideau River footbridge gains endorsements, but issues remain

John Dance The idea of a simple footbridge over the Rideau River near the foot of Clegg Street received support from several parties over the last two months. During the… Read more »

Nervous times at the Greenfield Avenue crosswalk: Pedestrian safety at risk yet again as traffic lights knocked out

Nervous times at the Greenfield Avenue crosswalk: Pedestrian safety at risk yet again as traffic lights knocked out

Tara Hogeterp The pedestrian lights have been knocked out again along Greenfield Avenue – a frustrating and dangerous situation that needs to be resolved quickly. The culprits appear to be… Read more »

Our Community Association says…Doug Ford’s Bill 23 is a “gift to the developers”

Our Community Association says…Doug Ford’s Bill 23 is a “gift to the developers”

Dianne Caldbick In mid-November, the Old Ottawa East Community Association (OOECA) wrote to the Government of Ontario and the Ontario Legislature’s Standing Committee on Heritage, Infrastructure and Cultural Policy to… Read more »

A Walk of Art 2022: Old Ottawa East community outdoor art tour now a popular fixture for local artists and art lovers

A Walk of Art 2022: Old Ottawa East community outdoor art tour now a popular fixture for local artists and art lovers

Mainstreeter Staff Blue skies and warm weather combined to draw hundreds of Old Ottawa East residents and other art-lovers to our community’s third annual outdoor art tour on September 10th… Read more »

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