Author: Caleb Nickerson
The Sûreté du Québec is seeking the public’s help in finding Brigitte Sabourin, 42, of Shawville. She was last seen on August 30 at around 6:30 p.m. near rue Argue in Shawville. Police say they have reason to fear for her health and safety. Description Height : 1.63 m (5’3″) Weight : 86 kg (191 […]
Shortly after 1 a.m. on Friday August 25, Sûreté du Québec officers from the MRC Pontiac detachment intercepted a vehicle that had just turned off Hwy. 148 into the parking lot of a licensed establishment on L’Isle-aux-Allumettes. SQ spokesperson Sgt. Marc Tessier said that the traffic stop was initiated due to a burned out headlight. […]
A Beachburg man in his 80s will be walking 10 km per day throughout the Pontiac this week as part of a fundraiser for the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO). Russell Mackay, 85, affectionately known as “Papa” to his family, is an avid walker with a history of fundraising for health care services. Though […]
Crystal Mackay gives an update on her father Russell’s charity walk through the Pontiac on August 28.
On Wednesday evening, the Municipality of Campbell’s Bay unveiled the newest additions to Maurice Beauregard Park, two sets of horseshoe pits and a shuffleboard court. Mayor Raymond Pilon explained that they had ordered the material for these additions the previous year and had installed them earlier this summer. The new additions to the community park […]
At a special meeting of MRC Pontiac council on August 24, the majority of the time was spent discussing a resolution regarding the waste incinerator project that has received much public attention in recent months. The MRC currently spends $1.7 million annually to truck its garbage roughly 200 km to the landfill in Lachute, and […]
At a special meeting of MRC Pontiac council on August 24, it was announced that they had hired a new strategic communications advisor, Francis Beausoleil. His start date is September 11. Beausoleil previously worked as an executive assistant and office director for former Pontiac MP Will Amos, and most recently as a special assistant to current […]
The Sûreté du Québec is asking for the help of the population of Pontiac in order to identify two people linked to a case of vehicle theft that occurred on August 3 at a dealership on Hwy. 148 in Shawville. Around 6:30 p.m., the suspects arrived on foot at the business. After entering the vehicle […]
At the MRC Pontiac council of mayors meeting on August 16, a motion was passed informing the municipalities that their agreement with the MRC for engineering services would be coming to a close. Kim Lesage first came to the MRC in 2018 as an engineer, but took over as interim Director General in late 2022 […]
