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The second annual ball tournament in memory of Maurice Beauregard will take place from May 24 to 26 in Campbell’s Bay at the park named in his honour. This is the second annual tournament held in memory of the town’s former mayor, who died of cancer in October 2022. His wife, Kelly McMahon-Beauregard, said that […]

A non-profit that advocates for people with mental health challenges is holding a public consultation next week in light of the provincial government reviewing law P.38.001, which regulates when and how someone can be hospitalized involuntarily if they are perceived to be a danger to themselves or others. Mélodie Pelletier, a councillor with Droits-Accès de […]

The annual Village en fête celebration in Fort-Coulonge is once again returning on June 8, with a few changes from years previous. Organizer Claudee Galipeau explained that this year they were moving their location from rue Baume to rue Bryson. She added that the activities would be similar to previous iterations, but they were adding […]

MRC Pontiac announced on Tuesday (May 9) that they had re-published some of the documents from Deloitte, who they paid $120,000 for a preliminary business case for constructing a waste incinerator in the region. The documents can be found here: English French MRC communications advisor Francis Beausoleil said that they had they had been authorized […]

A public meeting was held in Otter Lake on Saturday (May 4) regarding the spread of an invasive species of water plant, Eurasian milfoil. The plant is easily spread and can choke out native species and impede swimming as well as boat traffic. Its decomposition during the winter can lower the oxygen levels in lakes […]

The arena committee at the Centre de loisirs des draveurs in Fort-Coulonge held their first ever business expo on Saturday (May 4), raising $5,590 for the arena’s operation. Organizer Heidi Newberry explained that they had 32 vendors this year, ranging from local municipalities and non-profits to construction companies, and estimated that there were several hundred […]

With the MRC’s proposed waste incineration project in the political spotlight at the moment, there have been many questions from the public regarding efforts to reduce the overall waste tonnages that the region produces. CHIP 101.9 set out to quantify the amount of household waste the Pontiac is sending to landfill, and look at the […]

The Quebec government has provided funding to municipal bodies to quantify their greenhouse gas emissions and implement a plan to reduce them. The program to accelerate the local climate transition (ATCL), as it is called, is an investment of $500 million from the province as part of their 2030 green economy plan. At the MRC Pontiac […]

The Piscine Pontiac Pool committee held their annual general meeting on May 2 at the Fort-Coulonge municipal hall, with about 20 people in attendance. While there have been efforts to build a pool in the region in the past, the current iteration of the project was spearheaded by MRC Pontiac Warden Jane Toller in 2017, […]

A host of elected officials and bureaucrats gathered along Hwy. 148 in Mansfield on Friday morning for the official ribbon cutting of a new highway rest stop. The revamped property now features a self-cleaning bathroom, electric car charger, several picnic shelters and a map with tourism information for the entire Pontiac. It sits within view […]