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The town of Fort-Coulonge is looking for a new General Manager/Secretary-Treasurer that would assume the municipal administrative responsibilities. The Mayor of Fort-Coulonge, Gaston Allard, explained the qualities the municipality is looking for: You can apply for the position via the Fort-Coulonge website and the application deadline is on October 29..

Sandstone reconstruction work will take place until October 12 on Lionel-Beausoleil road in Lac-des-Loup, La Pêche. During the hours of 7 am and 6 pm, one lane will be closed and traffic will alternate with a traffic light.

The Société de protection des forêts contre le feu (SOPFEU) and municipal firefighters have issued a warning regarding the burning of dead leaves and other residues during the fall period. According to SOPFEU and the municipal firefighters’ information, they intervened on about twenty forest fires that are a result, in part, of burning leaves. In […]

The Sûreté du Québec (SQ) seized more than 3,200 cannabis plants and more than 105 kilos of cannabis in recent weeks by postal police of the MRC Pontiac, Vallée-de-la-Gatineau and Antoine-Labelle, in collaboration with the Major Crimes Investigation Service. They also arrested 11 people who are facing cannabis production charges. The SQ added that they […]

The movie Mad Dog Labine was produced last year in the Pontiac by Renaud Lessard and Jonathan Beaulieu-Cyr. The Film debuted Tuesday, October 9, at the new cinema festival in Montreal under the Focus Quebec/Canada category. In an interview with CHIP 101,9 the two artists said that the project took on another life here in […]

The Minister of Tourism, Official Languages and La Francophonie of Canada, Mélanie Joly, unveiled a fund to support official language minority media. The Member of Parliament for Pontiac, Will Amos, gave additional information during an announcement. CHIP was on site to capture the details: There will be 58 internships created in different minority French and […]

The Picture-Rally (Photo Rally) has become a well appreciated tradition among students at l’Envolée Elementary School in Campbell’s Bay. For the occasion, this year, the teachers divide the school into 8 teams, from kindergarten to grade 6. Then, each team made their way around Campbell’s Bay looking for 12 objects to capture. The results for […]

The 2018 Hunting season has begun and in an interview with CHIP 101,9, the spokesman for Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs du Québec, Bruno Chartrand, explained the different hunting rules and regulations for this 2018 season, although he covered all types of hunting methods, he specified certain regulations on moose hunting: […]

In a press release, yesterday (October 08), the newly appointed federal candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada in the Pontiac, Dave Blackburn, on the tornado of September 21, said he has visited many of the effected zones and congratulated the citizens that showed proof of solidarity and who helped those in need. Blackburn encourages […]

During an informal ceremony held at Ecole Secondaire Sieur-de-Coulonge in Mansfield, the CSHBO or Commission Scolaire des Hauts-Bois-de-l’Outaouais introduced 26 new employees in the Pontiac. ”As the president of the School boards’ Council of Commissionaires, it gives me great pleasure to welcome these new employees in to the CSHBO team” – President Diane Nault. Here […]