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Shortly after 5:30 p.m. on November 9, police intercepted a vehicle speeding excessively on Hwy. 148 in Mansfield. The driver was clocked doing 150 km/h in a 90 km/h zone. A 22-year-old man from Mansfield received a ticket for $1,088, 10 demerit points and had his license suspended for a period of 7 days.

The Fort-Coulonge/Mansfield Santa Claus parade will take place Saturday December 4. Those taking part will be meeting at the Mansfield Fire Station located at 300 rue Principale (Hwy. 148) at 4 p.m., with the departure scheduled for 5 p.m., finishing at the Fort-Coulonge arena. For more information please contact: Patrick Bertrand – (613) 401-7925 Patrick […]

The result is now official, Jane Toller has been re-elected warden of MRC Pontiac for a second consecutive mandate. In the end, Toller won the with 3,301 votes (52.69%), against 2,964 votes (47.31%) for Mike McCrank, a difference of 337 votes. The official public notice from the returning officer will be released tomorrow (November 10), […]

Roger Larose has returned to the mayor’s seat in the Municipality of Pontiac, with slightly fewer votes than when he was defeated in 2017. This year he won a three-way race with 778 votes (39.29%) compared to four years ago when he was defeated in a two-candidate contest with 852 votes (40.98%). Having another candidate […]

A memorial bench was unveiled at the Chutes Coulonge Park on Saturday (November 6) in honour of a young couple who passed away in March 2020. Jacynthe Bélair wanted a way to remember her friends Todd “TJ” Vibert Jr., 23, of Campbell’s Bay and his fiancée Karine Marion, 22, of Fort Coulonge, who died in […]

A new musical duo named after a Pontiac landmark released their first EP on Friday (November 5). Bristol Mines, made up of Burke Johnson and Isaac Baronikian, dropped their debut project entitled Easy Target on November 5, and it’s now available on Spotify and Apple Music. The pair met while studying audio engineering in Ottawa […]

The Institut de la statistique du Québec (ISQ) published its regional panorama of Quebec on November 4, which is a socio-economic portrait of the 17 administrative regions and the regional county municipalities (MRCs) that constitute them. The panorama presents eleven aspects of administrative regions: demography, labour market, education, regional GDP, disposable income per capita, living […]

Here is the list of municipal elected officials in the Pontiac region. *Note that these results are unofficial and could be subject to change* Name in black – Incumbent Name in [rouge] red [/ rouge] – New candidate Name in [bleu] blue [/ bleu] – Candidate back in a different role MRC Pontiac Warden After […]

Newly elected Shawville Mayor Bill McCleary said that waking up as the new representative of his community was a strange feeling. CHIP101.9 · Clip – Bill McCleary – reaction McCleary had served on council for the majority of the past eight years and narrowly lost the mayoral race in 2017, coming up 16 votes short […]

Outgoing Thorne Mayor Karen Daly Kelly won a second term at the helm of council, prevailing over former mayor Terry Murdock, the same opponent she faced off against in 2017. She improved her margin of victory from her first campaign, garnering 69% of the vote compared to 65% four years ago. She said that she […]