Some big changes are coming to OttawaGasPrices.com next week, when it becomes part of the GasBuddy.com network. Here’s a link with some more info… ** **

Here’s video from Dany Heatley’s press conference today ** , ** from Sens TV: ** Related: ** Ottawa Hockey Guide

XUP says: ** ** You know those automatic door openers next to mall doors and the doors of some shops? Sometimes they’re just red buttons, sometimes they’re big metal buttons with a stick figure in a wheelchair in the middle of them. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/23663_1.jpg) The big news at the world wide headquarters of OttawaStart is that we’re selling our house – and we’re selling it through Grape Vine . Here’s our listing 60 Dunoon Place, Kanata . Three bedrooms plus bonus room, quiet cul-de-sac, and a big backyard. ...

One of our favourite new local blogs is Ottawa Ephemera , posting the “flotsam and jetsam of this city, washed up on telephone poles, wastebaskets, iPhones and mailboxes”. Earlier this week they featured the cover of a 1992 Archie comic book where Archie & friends visit … Ottawa! ...

** UPDATE: ** We’ve updated this list - ** please click here to see the 2011 version. ** Here are 30 blogs (actually 31, read carefully) that, IMHO, you must add to your reading list. As in, if you read these on a daily basis you can almost cancel your newspaper subscription. ...

This post is an extension of a few Tweets from earlier today from @OttawaStart It was six years ago today that the power went out across Ottawa and eastern North America on August 14, 2003. Once the power (and internet) was back on, I asked OttawaStart readers to share their stories – tonight I looked them up again and it made for some interesting reading. ...

Just finished reading [ Win, Tie or Wrangle ](http://www.penumbrapress.com/book.php?id=297) , a totally awesome book by local hockey historian Paul Kitchen. A fascinating read, highly recommended if you are either a) a hockey fan or b) a local history buff. ...

I’ve been enjoying all of the conspiracy theories surrounding the police search today for an unidentified object (it may or may not have been flying) on the Ottawa River. The police called off the search , but speculation continues via Twitter. ...

Peggy Feltmate, the City Councillor for Kanata South, sent an email out today about the July 24 flooding in Kanata and Stittsville . ** ** A number of homes in Kanata South were flooded after heavy rainfall last Friday. ...