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According to the information obtained by CHIP 101.9, the Centre de formation professionnelle du Pontiac (CFP Pontiac) will be able to start their secretarial and accounting courses in a few days. However, there is still some room available for their cooking class and more registrations are required for the course to be able to take […]

Imperative Français will be holding its traditional evening in honour of the Fête des rois this Saturday in Aylmer. The president of the organization Jean-Paul Perreault gave more details: Tickets are on sale at the door at $35 for adults and $25 for students. For more information: click here.

Since the official merger on January 1st, the Fort-Coulonge and Chapeau Caisses Desjardins will now be named the Caisse Desjardins des Rivières de Pontiac. It should be noted that back in October, after a unanimous vote by members in favor of the merger of the two banks, director Stéphane Labine had specified that no closing […]

The Pontiac International sled dog and skijoring event was held last weekend and attracted double the number of participants compared to last year. The organizer, Denis Rozon: The event will be back next year: The full interview with Denis Rozon is available here.

The Pontiac Senior Comets suffered a setback last Saturday against the Montagnards of Mont-Laurier. The Comets’ Maxime Belley scored a goal and an assist and earned himself the second star of the game. The defeat went to goaltender Justin Bois who made 39 saves out of 44 shots on goal, the last Montagnards goal was […]

The Conservative candidate for the Pontiac federal Electoral District, Dave Blackburn, posted on his Facebook page, on January 3rd, criticizing the current Pontiac MP, William Amos, in regards of the economy in the riding. The current Member of Parliament William Amos took advantage of the last few days to wish the citizens of the region […]

The New Year’s Eve party held at the Knights of Columbus parish hall in Fort-Coulonge raised money that was donated to different organizations or causes in the community. One of the organizers, André Boisvert, gave more details: The full interview in French with André Boisvert is available here.

The author of the book “Fort-Coulonge – Pour mieux connaître son histoire” – Benoit Paré, made a discovery in recent weeks of a map of the municipality of Fort-Coulonge dating back to 1888. Benoit Paré had been looking for this particular map for many years. This map represents one of the first documents that led […]

According to the information obtained by CHIP 101.9, Sphinx and its partner SOQUEM, the Quebec investment subsidiary, Calumet-Sud mining project has continued during the last few days. Drilling on this zinc project has been completed. In November of last year, Sphinx published a press release where it reported a grade of 21.2% obtained on the […]

On December 30th at approximately 3am, an accident occurred in the heart of the municipality of Fort-Coulonge. The 25-year-old motorist, who was driving without a valid driver’s license or insurance, hit a Hydro pole on Baume Street. Alcohol could be a factor. The driver of the vehicle was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. […]