[caption id=“attachment_3672” align=“aligncenter” width=“580”] Photo by Robert Janelle.[/caption] A new digital news outlet for Ottawa is slated to launch in mid-February, run by a company with a history of successful online news startups across Ontario. Village Media posted a job ad this week for the position of multimedia reporter for the forthcoming _ ottawamatters. ...

[caption id=“attachment_85791” align=“aligncenter” width=“640”] Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle include three “biospheres” filled with plants and endangered species. (Photo by brewbooks , used under a Creative Commons license.)[/caption] Amazon passed over Ottawa in its bid to find a location for a second headquarters on Thursday, when it released a list of 20 finalist cities that contained but one Canadian option – Toronto. ...

(Via Instacart) Instacart (www.Instacart.ca), the fast-growing retail delivery service, together with Loblaw Companies Limited, announced today an expansion into the Ottawa area to serve over 330k households beginning January 17. This service expansion into Ontario follows Instacart and Loblaw’s initial launch in Toronto last December. ...

** _ You know it’s Motown when you hear it! _ ** Defined as soul music, Classic Motown (Motown Records) was a driving force behind some of the biggest names in music. Individual artists and groups like: Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, and The Jackson 5, among many others, would come to be known as the Motown Sound in the sixties and seventies. ...

_ ** Zachary Stevenson’s Buddy Holly Show ** _ March 16, 2018 at Shenkman Arts Centre From the Internationally Acclaimed “Buddy Holly Story”, direct from British Columbia, Zachary Stevenson has been the starring role as Buddy Holly in over ten different productions of the Buddy Holly Story across North America. ...

[caption id=“attachment_85682” align=“aligncenter” width=“1000”] A new mural at the Hunt Club-Riverside Park Community Centre will brighten the old gray building. Claudia Salguero, a professional artist who oversaw its creation, supervising its installation in late December. (Devyn Barrie/OttawaStart.com)[/caption] The icy wind lapped at the drawings in Claudia Salguero’s hand on an afternoon in late December as she shouted up instructions to the men on the roof installing her mural. ...

Less than two weeks after parting ways with Carter Brown, KiSS 105.3 in Ottawa is about to add a new voice into their morning show. More uniquely, KiSS will also be adding a new voice to the one they already have on the afternoon show. ...

[caption id=“attachment_85625” align=“aligncenter” width=“1000”] Kathleen Wynne, Ontario premier, will host a town hall in Ottawa on Jan. 18. In this file photo she hosts a Q&A with students at Algonquin College in spring 2017. (Devyn Barrie/OttawaStart.com)[/caption] _ (Via Carleton Provincial Liberal Association) _ Premier Kathleen Wynne is traveling across Ontario to hear from people on the issues that matter most to them. ...

[caption id=“attachment_85600” align=“aligncenter” width=“1000”] Via NAC[/caption] _ (Via NAC) _ ** January 12, 2018– OTTAWA (Canada) ** – The National Arts Centre is delighted to announce the installation of _ Frost _ , a 6.1-metre interactive sculpture that will illuminate the National Arts Centre’s Canal Foyer throughout the winter. ...

I believed I had chosen a profession where I would make a difference and what I wrote would impact people’s lives. I also expected to retire from this profession. That was not to be. -- Theresa Fritz, former managing editor of Metroland Media East. ...