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The Municipality of Mansfield-et-Pontefract sent out a public notice today (April 14) indicating that the risk of minor flooding is expected on the Coulonge River at the start of the week. The municipality released the following statement regarding the issue: “Due to the rapid melting of the snow, the Coulonge River is continuously rising and […]

The committee that manages the Fort-Coulonge arena, the Centre de Loisirs des Draveurs Century 21 Élite, will be holding their AGM on Thursday, April 20 at 6 p.m. in the reception room on the second floor. For  this is an opportunity to show the community the improvements that have been made and to elect future […]

Earlier this month, a student at Pontiac High School laid a brutal smack-down on one of his teachers while a crowd of students cheered him on. The fight was sanctioned by the local athletic authorities however, and was the culmination of more than a year of impromptu wrestling bouts between the student, named Andrew, and […]

With the snow melting, the water levels and flows on the Ottawa River have begun to increase, according to monitoring from the Ottawa River Regulation Planning Board (ORRPB). During this period, the organization will provide daily updates forecasting the river conditions. “Levels and flows are expected to increase gradually over the coming week and stay […]

MRC Pontiac is inviting residents to submit questions ahead of their monthly council of mayors meeting, which will take place on April 19 at 6:30 p.m. at their office in Campbell’s Bay. Citizens are invited to attend and ask questions in person, but the meeting will also be streamed live on the MRC’s Facebook page. […]

The official reopening of the Commonwealth Plywood mill in Rapides-des-Joachims will take place on Wednesday, April 19 at noon, with local elected officials and staff of the facility in attendance. Commonwealth Plywood began operations at the site, which had been closed for more than a decade, over the winter and began its recruitment last fall. […]

The Félix-Gabriel-Marchand Bridge in Mansfield will be temporarily closed on Friday, April 14 between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. to update the lighting on the bridge. The lighting on the bridge was also closed for a few days due to the freezing rain of April 6. “We had to take the necessary precautions to protect […]

There were many farmers in the Pontiac forced to adapt to the extended power outages that hit the region this past week, and Ferme Cedar Creek in Clarendon, a fish farm that raises trout, was no exception. They put some miles on their generator over the 128 hours they were without electricity from Wednesday to […]

Nearly a week after a heavy ice storm hit many areas of southern Quebec, there are nearly 1,000 people in the Pontiac region still in the dark. As of 3:30 p.m. Tusday (April 11) there were 963 customers without power in MRC Pontiac, mainly concentrated in Clarendon, Thorne, Bristol and Otter Lake. This was a […]

The major power outages seen across the MRC Pontiac have certainly improved, however there are still approximately 1,400 households in the Pontiac preparing to spend a sixth consecutive night without power. The MRC Pontiac represented more than 60% of customers without electricity in the Outaouais region. According to Hydro-Quebec’s latest update (Info-Panne), Bristol still had […]