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The body of a young man was pulled from the water in a lake in the Municipality of Otter Lake on Sunday afternoon (July 13), after he was reported missing on Saturday evening. According to Sûreté du Québec Sergeant Stéphane Tremblay, the 25-year old man from Campbell’s Bay was swimming with friends and went missing […]
Campbell’s Bay councillor Jean-Pierre Landry will be seeking the position of MRC Pontiac’s warden in this fall’s municipal elections. Originally from Shawinigan, Landry’s family moved to the Pontiac in 1967, as his father worked to start up Consolidated-Bathurst’s mill in Portage-du-Fort. Now retired, he worked for many years for the provincial government at Services Québec. […]
Jean-Pierre Landry talks about his intention to run for MRC Pontiac warden in this fall’s municipal elections.
Josey Bouchard announced last week that she intends to seek the position of MRC Pontiac warden in this fall’s municipal elections. Bouchard is currently an elementary school teacher in Campbell’s Bay, and said that she’s spent most of her professional career in the area. In addition to being elected to Campbell’s Bay council in 2021, Bouchard […]
Josey Bouchard talks about her intention to run for warden of MRC Pontiac in this fall’s municipal elections.
MRC Pontiac’s economic development department is gauging the interest in pickleball lessons for local sports and recreation organizations with an online survey. These training sessions are designed to support organizations wishing to integrate pickleball into their programming. The questionnaire seeks to determine the level of interest in several types of lessons that could be available: an […]
The Centre des Loisirs des Draveurs in Fort-Coulonge is putting on a series of fundraisers to pay for the Committee member Heidi Newberry explained that they had purchased second-hand boards from the arena in Arnprior back in the spring and were about to begin putting them in. She said that they would be raising money […]
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On July 10, Quebec’s police watchdog the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI) announced that they had closed their investigation into a woman who was seriously injured while in police custody at the Sûreté du Québec station in Campbell’s Bay last year, and died several days later in hospital. The BEI is called to investigate whenever […]
Earlier this week, Campbell’s Bay councillor and community volunteer Josey Bouchard announced her intention to seek the position of MRC Pontiac Warden in this fall’s municipal elections. “New challenge for me this fall, I am running to be the next Warden MRC Pontiac,” she wrote in a post on social media. In addition to being […]