Author: Marie Gionet
A two-vehicle collision on Hwy. 148 in the Municipality of Pontiac last night (August 16) sent one person to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. According to MRC des Collines Police, at around 7 p.m. Wednesday evening, a pickup truck pulling a trailer collided head-on with a car near the intersection with chemin Pilon in Luskville. The […]
Yesterday (August 15), MRC Pontiac launched a call for projects for the Regions and Rurality Fund (FRR) – Component 2, an envelope with $350,000 for eligible projects made available through the provincial Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (MAMH). This component is targeting projects that will “improve living environments and encourage the implementation of initiatives […]
On Tuesday evening (August 15), the Pontiac Agricultural Society held their annual Shawville Fair Ambassador competition. Youth from the local agricultural community compete for the title with short speeches about a chosen subject relating to the fair. There were four competitors this year: Felix Vereyken (Ag Awareness Division, Kathleen Kelly (Sheep Division), Ben Judd (4-H […]
A sequel to a successful charity walk will be held in the Pontiac at the end of August. Russell Mackay, 85, will be walking 50 km throughout the Pontiac region to raise money for the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO). While that might be an ambitious feat for anyone his age, Mackay is also […]
Crystal Mackay talks about her father Russell’s upcoming fundraiser “Papa Walks 4 Kids”.
Fans of Shawville author Luke Murphy won’t have much longer to wait, as his seventh novel “The Cradle Will Fall” is set to be published later this year. As the nursery rhyme title suggests, the novel is a continuation of Murphy’s earlier novel “Rock-a-bye Baby”, and he said he’s been working on the plot since […]
Shawville author Luke Murphy discusses his upcoming novel “The Cradle Will Fall”.
The Pontiac Community Players are gearing up for this season’s summer farce, with an interesting twist on a classic tale. The troupe will be performing the play “Marian” which is a female-led remix of the classic tale of Robin Hood. Tanya Leigh Maguire, a long-time member of the Community Players, will be directing and starring […]
Tanya Leigh Maguire of the Pontiac Community Players talks about their upcoming production “Marian”.
The head of the Pontiac Senior Comets team, who talked about the team playing in an Ontario hockey league in the spring, just announced that they had to withdrawal from league. Team owner Sébastien Bonnerot confided in CHIP 101.9 after breaking the news, “it broke our hearts to have had to give up on the […]
