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The George Bryson Heritage House announced via its Facebook page that the last official opening day of the season will be Friday, August 23rd, before closing for the winter. The restaurant service of the Café Robina will be available until Sunday August 18th. A special “Chicken Pie” menu will be organized for the occasion. The […]

Campbell’s Bay Cement will now be responsible for waste management on the MRC Pontiac territory. The contract for the receiving, transporting and disposing of garbage in the area was signed at the Pontiac MRC Council of Mayors’ special meeting, held on Monday in Campbell’s Bay. The Director General of the MRC, Bernard Roy. Services with […]

With the intention of stimulating the forest industry in the region, the Pontiac Forest Products Producers’ Board, and the Groupement Forestier du Pontiac Inc. (GFP) are working together to inform woodlot owners that have 4 hectares or more, who wish to realize development work and thus become a forest producer. The director general of the […]

An extraordinary meeting of the Mayors of the MRC Pontiac is scheduled for this Monday, August 12th at 7:30 pm in the Elsie Gibbons Room at the MRC Pontiac office in Campbell’s Bay. Among the items on the agenda, note the results of the call for tenders for the reception, transportation and elimination of garbage […]

The Sûreté du Québec presented the road and recreational tourism records in the area over the construction holidays, in which many police operations took place during that time, from July 19th to August 4th. In total, there were 20,844 reports of violations of the Highway Safety Code where more than 13,000 of which were reports […]

The Festival International du Cinéma des Femmes de Fort-Coulonge kicks off tonight. A few hours before the event, CHIP 101.9 had a chance to talk to one of the key organizers of the festival, Suzanne Vallières-Nollet. The complete interview in French is available here. For more details on this event, visit the Festival’s Facebook page […]

Yesterday, a 5@7 event was held in honor of Denis Rozon, the organizer of the Bristol Dryland International Dog Races and recipient of the Dollard-Morin Award last spring for his contribution to making a great event which has gained international success over the last several years. The ceremony was organized by Sport Loisir Outaouais and […]

Culvert replacement work is taking place on Pembroke rd between King rd and 4e-Rang rd in the municipality of L’Isle-aux-Allumettes until August 23rd. The road will be closed from Monday at 5am up until Friday at 12pm. A detour has been set up on Hwy 148 and Chapeau-Waltham rd and local traffic is allowed under […]

On Tuesday of next week, August 13th, the municipality of Pontiac will hold their monthly council meeting at 7:30pm at the Luskville Community center or 2024 hwy 148, Pontiac. Note that, the Quyon Community Center, in which the regularly held is not ready to be used as of yet.

The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change issued a press release this morning regarding the closure the Aquafolie Beach, Camp des Voyageurs Tim Horton, located in the municipality of Pontiac, due to high bacteriological contamination. According to the results of the lab analysis on Tuesday, August 6th, the waters at Aquafolie beach does not conform […]