NEWS

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 […]

This is a note from CHIP 101.9’s English editor Caleb Nickerson. An informal survey on the proposed Pontiac incinerator project was removed from CHIP 101.9’s website today, after concerns were raised about the accuracy of the data. After reviewing the situation, we decided that since the same person can cast multiple votes, the results weren’t […]

A new bursary to help retain local nursing students is now available thanks to a sizable private donation to the Pontiac Community Hospital Foundation. The MacLachlan  family recently donated $100,000 to the foundation in order to support the hiring and retention of new nurses, one of the local health service’s biggest challenges at the moment.  […]

Around two dozen members of the public attended a special meeting of the MRC Pontiac council of mayors Monday morning (April 29) at the MRC office in Campbell’s Bay. The special sitting had been called by Warden Jane Toller for the purposes of appropriating $3,000 for the distribution of a newsletter on a proposed waste […]

Members of the Fort-Coulonge arena committee recently announced that this year’s Pontiac Cup 3v3 hockey tournament, which took place on April 12 and 13, brought in $25,000 for the Centre des Losisirs des Draveurs Century 21 Élite. The arena committee thanked all the volunteers who helped out, as well as the tournament’s founders and organizers […]