Author: Marie Gionet

The Caisse Desjardins des Rivières de Pontiac building at 175 rue Principale in Fort Coulonge is up for sale. There is no fixed price set but the location will likely be vacated in less than a year. The building should be vacant around the month of next July, when the branch is relocated to rue […]

On the deadline for submissions of candidates, another councillor in L’Île-du-Grand-Calumet was elected without opposition. Pierre Jolicoeur became the councillor for seat 3 after Mélanie Dumouchel withdrew her candidacy. Jolicoeur joins Aurel Paquette and Louise Grenier, who were also elected by acclamation. The mayor’s seat and council seats 4, 5 and 6 are all contested: […]

Residents of L’Isle-aux-Allumettes will have three choices for mayor after incumbent Winston Sunstrum announced that he would not be seeking re-election. Jeremiah Nephin, Corey Spence and Louis Lair are all vying for the top job. With a professional background in finance, Lair has been a councillor for the past eight years. He said that he […]

Last week the government of Quebec announced that they would be investing $3 billion into the provincial daycare system by 2024/25, with a goal of creating 37,000 new places in the system by 2025. During the press conference with Premier François Legault and Minister for Families Mathieu Lacombe, the Pontiac region recieved some attention. In […]

A power outage hit the municipalities of Shawville, Bristol and Clarendon, as well as the Municipality of Pontiac on Tuesday afternoon. Hydro Quebec community relations agent Alain Paquette said that the outage was caused by a fallen tree. “At the start of the blackout, around 2,600 customers were without electricity,” he wrote in an email […]

Alain Gagnon is hoping that he can build on some of the projects that council has undertaken over the past eight years if he is re-elected on November 7 to a third term. Gagnon was elected by acclamation in 2017. A former police officer, Gagnon said that he got his start in politics in 2013 […]