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_ (press release) _ Tenth Line Road will be closed between Southfield Way and Harvest Valley Avenue starting Monday, May 2 to accommodate construction related to a private development in the area. The work is expected to be completed by Friday, May 13. ...

The intersection of Brian Coburn Boulevard and Portobello Boulevard will be closed this weekend, starting at 7 a.m. on Saturday, August 15.  The closure is required to facilitate construction of the roundabout at the intersection, specifically to complete the installation of the final layer of asphalt pavement and line painting. ...

(This post originally appeared on Andrew King’s Ottawa Rewind blog and republished here with his permission.) A concept sketch by Andrew King of how the lighthouse in the Ottawa River may have looked based on a photo taken by Lou Bouchard and aerial images from the 1960s. ...

Shawn Nystrand sent along this panorama of Place d’Orleans shopping centre as it looked in 1979: "I stitched together 2 slides taken of Place D'Orleans around the time of opening in 1979 by matching up architectural markers in Photoshop. I think this is a pretty good representation of the mall as it appeared at that time. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/JPL_0368.jpg) ** ** Photo by Jean Labelle , who writes: “Yea!!!! We get to keep our cow! The City of Ottawa put up a prolonged battle to have the owners of Cheddar Et Cetera in Orleans, take down their rooftop cow citing it as a driver distraction. ...