Author: Marie Gionet
The Quebec Green Party has unveiled their candidate for the Pontiac in the general election scheduled for October 3. Pierre Cyr, a resident of Fort-Coulonge, had a career with NAVCANADA as an airport manager and national aviation safety specialist. According to his bio, he is perfectly bilingual and is happy to represent a federalist option […]
Québec Solidaire has just one candidate in the running to represent their party in the upcoming provincial election on October 3, Mike Owen Sebagenzi. Without any competition, he is likely to be officially nominated by the party in the coming weeks. CHIP 101.9 expects to speak with Sebagenzi soon. There are currently only two candidates […]
Art Pontiac will be hosting the grand opening of their new boutique at the Stone School Gallery in Portage-du-Fort this evening (June 3), starting at 5:30 p.m. The evening will also serve as the vernissage for “Conversations”, a textile art exhibition. The group’s communications director Geneviève Has told CHIP 101.9 that the boutique would feature […]
Art Pontiac’s Geneviève Has talks about their boutique opening. CHIP101.9 · Interview – Geneviève Has – boutique opening
Villa James Shaw President Ken Bernard talks about where the project is at coming out of the pandemic. CHIP101.9 · Interview – Ken Bernard – Villa James Shaw
Following Campbell’s Bay Mayor Maurice Beauregard’s cancer diagnosis in late April, the community is banding together to raise money for him and his family. This Saturday, there will be hair cut and bake sale fundraiser a the Campbell’s Bay Lions Hall from 10 a.m. to noon. Organizer Charleen Moore said that she and a committee […]
Police seized just over a kilo of illicit cannabis as well as edibles and other products following raids on two properties in Mansfield-et-Pontefract on Wednesday (June 1). Officers from the Sûreté du Québec’s station in Campbell’s Bay, under the level 1 coordination of the Outaouais, conducted searches on a house and an apartment on rues […]
In less than a week, the Fort-Coulonge / Mansfield Country Festival is set to kick off at the Centre de loisirs des Draveurs Century 21 Élite. The heads of the festival Phil Denault & Carole Faubert are pushing to finish not only preparing for the start of the highly anticipated event, which has been cancelled […]
At the most recent Fédération québécoise des municipalités (FQM) MRC Assembly (May 26), Premier François Legault pledged to complete the cellular network across Québec if re-elected on October 3, 2022. During this meeting, which MRC Pontiac Warden Jane Toller attended, Legault recognized that the incompletion of a stable and efficient cellular network could slow down […]
The Warden of the MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais, Marc Carrière, swore in Martial Mallette as the MRC’s new director of public security Thursday (May 26). The ceremony was held at the Centre Communautaire Multifonctionnel de la municipalité de Cantley. During the ceremony, Yves Charette, who is currently retiring, ceremoniously transferred his authority to Mallette after five […]
