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Culvert replacement work will be completed on highway 303 from May 29th and July 19th, 2019 between Highway 148 and Highway 301 South. During these operations, the road will be closed at all times on a section of road approximately 200 meters. Local traffic will be permitted on the portion of the road that is […]

The popularity and demand for organic milk production is booming in Canada and particularly in the province, according to Quebec organic milk producers where in the Laurentides region alone, five companies produce it. The president of Quebec Organic Milk Producers, Bryan Denis, told CHIP 101.9, what is the organic milk market in the province. One […]

Four students from l’École l’Envolée, of the Établissement des Petits-Ponts wrote a song entitled “Mes Labos”, as part of the presentation of the (labos créatifs) creative labs 2018-2019, which will take place this Thursday, May 30th in the school’s gymnasium. The teacher responsible for the song project, Françoise Corriveau, specified the origin of this idea, […]

A new organization has been created in the Pontiac to provide outdoor entertainment for families this summer. Campfire Cinemas, which will present movies all summer on a giant screen installed outdoors in various municipalities across the Pontiac. The main organizer, Robert Lance, spoke to CHIP 101.9 about the concept. The first film was due to […]

The Canadian Armed Forces were in Fort-Coulonge once again earlier this week to help remove the sandbags and plastic from the large municipal dikes. Today, the municipality plans to work on removing the sand from the dikes and the citizens of Fort-Coulonge who want to remove their sandbags can drop them at the back of […]

The Ottawa River Regulation Planning Board recently stated that the water levels are expected to decrease at an accelerate rate over the next few days. It was also indicated that the reservoirs located North of the watershed are now full, according to the Planning Board, since no significant precipitation is expected in the next few […]

While several residents are still waiting to return home a month after being evacuated, many families in Fort-Coulonge/Mansfield have helped each other and have generously hosted disaster victims. Maxime Delisle and his family have welcomed in five evacuated residents and now that number has increased to eleven. Several people believed that the evacuations would not […]

On Sunday night in Campbell’s Bay, one of the organizers of the 3-pitch fun league and municipal councilmen for the municipality of Campbell’s Bay, Tim Ferrigan, presented the donation of $9, 000, from the league to the municipality, that has led to the newly added shelter covering the bleachers at the municipal ball field in […]

A few days after announcing the creation of a parliamentary commission on the future of the news media, an interdepartmental committee, chaired by the Minister of Finance, was created to identify the help that can be provided for print media, with only a few weeks before the commission. That same committee is proposing to table […]

The subject of the use of the bike path has resurfaced in recent weeks. CHIP 101.9 spoke with Remo Pasteris, from the Green PPJ Verte group, who said that he was disappointed with the MRC’s decision to only include elected officials on the committee that will consider the use of the bike path and its […]