NEWS

On Tuesday evening (August 15), the Pontiac Agricultural Society held their annual Shawville Fair Ambassador competition. Youth from the local agricultural community compete for the title with short speeches about a chosen subject relating to the fair. There were four competitors this year: Felix Vereyken (Ag Awareness Division, Kathleen Kelly (Sheep Division), Ben Judd (4-H […]

A sequel to a successful charity walk will be held in the Pontiac   at the end of August. Russell Mackay, 85, will be walking 50 km throughout the Pontiac region to raise money for the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO). While that might be an ambitious feat for anyone his age, Mackay is also […]

Fans of Shawville author Luke Murphy won’t have much longer to wait, as his seventh novel “The Cradle Will Fall” is set to be published later this year. As the nursery rhyme title suggests, the novel is a continuation of Murphy’s earlier novel “Rock-a-bye Baby”, and he said he’s been working on the plot since […]

The Pontiac Community Players are gearing up for this season’s summer farce, with an interesting twist on a classic tale. The troupe will be performing the play “Marian” which is a female-led remix of the classic tale of Robin Hood. Tanya Leigh Maguire, a long-time member of the Community Players, will be directing and starring […]

The head of the Pontiac Senior Comets team, who talked about the team playing in an Ontario hockey league in the spring, just announced that they had to withdrawal from league. Team owner Sébastien Bonnerot confided in CHIP 101.9 after breaking the news, “it broke our hearts to have had to give up on the […]

The MRC Pontiac issued an advisory notice of sale for property owners with long-standing unpaid municipal taxes. If the current owners do not take steps to pay the sums that are due, the buildings named in the notice will therefore be sold during a public auction on Thursday, September 14 at 10 a.m. at the […]

This past weekend, the fundraiser ball tournament for the Fort-Coulonge Minor Hockey Association raised $11,000, money that the association will need after the Comets teams were denied approval to play in Ontario next year. “This year we had a record in the number of teams which was 13 teams in the family division and 4 […]

The Club Quad Pontiac reacted with outrage to the graffiti and vandalism found on their trails’ signage. The vandalism was found on July 30 in the evening, near Lac Bell towards the Picanoc Road. “This kind of gesture can jeopardize the safety and lives of the users of our trails,” the Club wrote. “What a […]

Up on L’Isle-aux-Allumettes, the municipality is in preparations for their annual Islandfest celebrations, which will take place on August 11 and 12. The weekend celebrations will take place at the grounds near Harrington Community Hall, located at 64 chemin Pembroke. Community Development coordinator Chantal Lair explained that this year’s party would be a special occasion, […]

The Municipality of L’Isle-aux-Allumettes has been in the midst of a summer of construction, with a host of upgrades to their water and sewer system in progress. In a press release (available below), the municipality gave a progress report on the work being carried out beneath the village’s main arteries: rues Saint-Jacques, Rochon and Front. […]