NEWS

Local non-profit L’EntourElle hosted their Salon des Femmes event last week at the Spruceholme Inn in Fort-Coulonge, and honoured long-time board member Rhonda Perry for more than two decades of service with the organization. The group offers a wide range of free resources for women and children who have experienced domestic violence, from emergency accommodation […]

With the future of the Norway Bay pier under discussion following an engineer’s report that condemned it as unsafe, a new committee has been formed to analyze the options going forward and pursue various funding avenues. The pier is a focal point of the cottaging community and was well used in the summer months. The […]

A young man from North Bay is expected to face several criminal charges following a single-vehicle crash on Hwy. 148 outside of Quyon on Sunday afternoon. According to a social media statement from MRC des Collines Police, at around 6:20 p.m. on March 31 emergency crews were called to a crash on the highway near […]

The Carrefour jeunesse Emploi du Pontiac will once again be hosting a virtual summer job fair later this month, allowing potential employees and their prospective employers to mix and prepare for the end of the school year. Melissa Piché of the Carrefour explained that the event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. […]

Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for the Pontiac region, as a mix of snow and rain is predicted to begin tomorrow (April 3). “A low pressure system developing over Colorado will intensify over the next few days and affect the province of Quebec beginning Wednesday afternoon,” the statement reads. “Precipitation will be […]

The committee in charge of the Centre de Loisirs des Draveurs Century 21 Élite in Fort-Coulonge is hosting several upcoming events to fundraise for the facility’s refrigeration system. Committee member Heidi Newberry explained that they were soliciting local entrepreneurs to showcase their wares and services at their upcoming business expo on Saturday May 4 from […]

Opposition party Québec solidaire appealed to the CAQ government on March 28 to adopt Bill 198, which aims to protect elderly tenants in the midst of the current housing crunch. If passed into law, the bill would expand on a law tabled in 2016 by former QS spokesperson Françoise David, which would prevent landlords from […]

St-Joseph Hall in L’Isle-aux-Allumettes was near capacity on Monday night (March 25) for the first of several town hall meetings hosted by MRC Pontiac on their proposed waste incineration project. The meetings were first announced just five days before at the MRC council’s monthly public meeting on March 20, where a contingent of around 40 […]

The family of a woman from Rapides-des-Joachims who recently had her legs amputated following complications from a bacterial infection is raising funds from the community to help ease her recovery. Crystal Fischer, a 35-year-old mother of three was suddenly hospitalized back on December 17 with pulmonary blood clots that required surgery. Fischer’s sister-in-law, Kelsey Daly […]

Cantley municipal councillor Jean-Nicolas de Bellefeuille is throwing his hat into the ring for the federal Conservative Party nomination for the riding of Pontiac. He joins previous candidate Michel Gauthier and Chelsea resident Brian Goodman in the contest. A life-long Outaouais resident, de Bellefeuille said that one of the main reasons he decided to run […]