Author: Marie Gionet
the Municipal Council Meeting on February 5th has been postponed to February 11th, 2025.
Over 200 people gathered at the Pontiac Conference Centre on Friday, January 24 for the traditional lumberjack dinner, an evening benefiting Parc des Chutes Coulonge. The auction of a trip to Newfoundland raised $4,000. According to organizer (and Pontiac Warden) Jane Toller, nearly half the attendees came from Ontario. Despite an interruption during the pandemic, […]
A bursary to help train and retain local nurses has been given a funding boost thanks to additional donations from the community. Pontiac Community Hospital Foundation vice-president Allan Dean explained that in April 2024 they received a $100,000 donation from the MacLachlan family, to be put towards bursaries for local nursing students, conditional on them […]
Frequent power outages are nothing new for residents of the upper Pontiac, the western edge of the MRC that encompasses Sheenboro, Chichester, Waltham, l’Isle-aux-Allumettes and parts of Mansfield. L’Isle-aux-Allumettes farmer David Gillespie has been tracking the length and frequency of outages since 2009, and said that after a decline in the numbers over the previous […]
Yesterday’s windy weather caused a mini-bus operated by local collective transportation group TransporAction Pontiac to get stuck in the ditch in Bristol Monday afternoon, temporarily closing Hwy. 148. Sûreté du Québec spokesperson Sgt. Marc Tessier said that they were called at around 5 p.m. on January 28 near the intersection of Hwy. 148 and Wharf Road, where […]
Every year, the Bus Carriers Federation organizes a provincial safety campaign, the M’as-tu vu? (Did you see me?) campaign, to remind schoolchildren, stakeholders and road users of the importance of adopting safe behavior on and around school buses. This awareness campaign takes place during the first two weeks of February, a period when established habits […]
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The saga of the Municipality of Alleyn-et-Cawood’s 2024 shares continued at the MRC Pontiac council of mayors meeting on January 22, as council voted to mandate a law firm to recover the nearly $300,000 they are owed, plus interest and costs. Shares are the fees that municipalities are charged by the MRC for various services, […]