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Less than a month remains before the launch of the West Island branch of the REM, but parking options for future users of the Fairview-Pointe-Claire station still remain unclear.

A popular martial arts centre owner is behind bars and facing serious criminal charges following a savage hammer attack inside his home in Ste. Anne de Bellevue last week that left his daughter — a Montreal police officer — severely injured.

McGill University cut the ribbon on a spacious greenhouse at its Macdonald Campus in Ste. Anne de Bellevue earlier this month, calling the new facility an encouraging step forward in the school’s agricultural and environmental research capabilities.

The City of Dollard des Ormeaux signalled its interest in acquiring five properties within its territory last month by voting to approve registering a right of first refusal on the sites, a move that gives the municipality the option to buy the properties if ever they are put up for sale.

Residents living near the Ullivik homeless shelter and warming trailer in Dorval are calling for a stronger police presence in the wake of a stabbing incident near the shelter last Friday that left two homeless men seriously injured.

The Montreal Agglomeration council last week voted to put forward an application to have the Cap St. Jacques sector of the Grand Parc de l’Ouest designated as an Urban Night Sky Place, a classification issued by an international organization that recognizes sites near urban centres that promote what is described as “an authentic nighttime experience.”

With shovels expected to be in the ground in the coming months to start building its new $28.6-million cultural centre, the City of Beaconsfield last week kicked off a fundraising campaign to raise the final $2 million for the project, and announced 80 per cent of that target had already been pledged by several well-known community members, including former Beaconsfield Mayor Georges Bourelle and his wife Ellen, who donated $150,000.

It took nearly 16 months for Montreal police to gather evidence, including DNA, in the case of a Pointe Claire woman who suffered serious injuries in a horrific two-car hit-and-run crash on the Trans-Canada service road in Pointe Claire, but her case is now in the hands of the Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales (DPCP), which is set to determine if criminal charges will be laid against the suspected driver.

A grandson builds on his late grandfather's legacy.

The team who publishes The 1510 West and The 1019 Report hosted back-to-back food drives in recent weeks — one in the West Island and one in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges region — and collected about 700 kilograms of non-perishable items.

With no firm timeline for when the City of Pointe Claire will unveil its long-awaited urban plan and despite a building freeze still in place across large swaths of its territory, elected officials last week signalled they are willing to see two major development projects go ahead — a 249-unit residential building at the former Bar B Barn site at Sources and Brunswick boulevards and a hotel project at the northwest corner of St. Jean and Brunswick boulevards, in the parking lot near Moe’s and Scarolie’s restaurants.

With trains travelling along the REM line in the West Island becoming more frequent as the final phase of testing on the network’s Anse-à-l’Orme branch continues in preparation of the official spring launch, Pointe Claire residents are asking elected officials more questions, but there are still few answers. What is clear, however, is a rising level of frustration with the lack of information.

Many West Islander motorists have likely noticed an increased presence of potholes on the roads this year, and they’re not alone. Local mechanics and municipal officials alike have taken notice of the upped number of sizable cracks in the roads.

With the ceremonial puck drop on Monday, the Pointe Claire Oldtimers Hockey Club kicked off its 57th edition of its annual week-long tournament, one of the largest oldtimers events in the country.

The City of Pointe Claire’s proposed building maintenance bylaw goes too far, according to one city councillor who is raising a red flag, urging changes should be made to the proposed regulation before it is given final approval next month.

A petition calling on the federal government to honour an election commitment to take over responsibility for the veterans’ cemetery in Pointe Claire, the largest resting place for military service personnel in Canada, was presented in the House of Commons late last month. This is the second federal petition urging the transfer of control of the National Field of Honour in the last two years.

Some of Canada’s most decorated military members were laid to rest in this cemetery. Among the most familiar names is Léo Major, whom Sullivan lists as “right at the top” among most accomplished of soldiers in Canadian history.

Police say a 51-year-old Pierrefonds man will face charges in the wake of a violent knife attack that sent a woman to hospital with serious injuries during a domestic quarrel inside a residence on Athena Street in Pierrefonds last Thursday.

The population of the West Island’s demerged suburbs has increased by 5.5 per cent in the last five years, with Pointe Claire seeing the biggest gains and pushing the region’s population above the quarter-of-a-million mark for the first time, according to the latest numbers released by the provincial government.

When will Pointe Claire unveil its long-awaited new urban plan?

When times are tough, when rising prices add to the financial pressures people struggle with, neighbours help neighbours. That is why The 1510 West is hosting a food drive.

The lot where an aging strip mall was recently torn down along St. Charles Boulevard in Kirkland will be the site of a new multi-storey rental condo building.

West Islanders and Macdonald High School students and their families are rallying around the mother of Grade 9 student Eva de Wit-Blades who was killed in a traffic accident last Friday in Vaudreuil-Dorion, launching three fundraising campaigns that have so far raised more than $80,000.

A municipal initiative aimed at fostering neighbourly bonds in Beaconsfield has been nominated for a provincial award.

The start of spring is a time when most animals begin giving birth to their litters, but what should you do if one of these critters has chosen to create a nest or burrow on your property to care for its newborns?