NEWS

Following several last minute changes and unannounced closures, the work schedule on the interprovincial bridge near the Chenaux Generating Station in Portage-du-Fort has changed another time with little warning. The provincial Ministry of Transportation had announced on July 7 that the bridge would be closed this evening (July 15) from 8 p.m. to midnight and […]

Officers from the MRC Pontiac station of the Sûreté du Québec are in mourning following the sudden death of one of their new comrades, Audrey Marois-Guité. The 25-year-old died following an ATV accident on Friday in the Lanaudière region. According to initial information from the SQ, she was a passenger on an ATV when the […]

The Conservative Party of Quebec held a press conference this afternoon (July 13) to announce their candidate for the Pontiac in this fall’s provincial elections, real estate broker Terrence Watters. Watters said that his priorities would be to restore services at the Pontiac Hospital in Shawville and to help young people purchase property. Watters will […]

Daniel Lamarche was elected to Otter Lake’s council seat three in a by-election this past Sunday (July 10), defeating Roslyn Carter and Brian McMahon. According to preliminary results, Lamarche obtained 175 votes to 25 for Carter and 5 for McMahon. CHIP 101.9 is expecting to speak with Lamarche in the coming days.

The candidates have been finalized in the by-election race for l’Île-du-Grand-Calumet’s fourth council seat, following Alice Meilleur-Pieschke’s retirement due to health reasons. Rolande Normandeau will be taking another crack at the position, as she was narrowly defeated by Meilleur-Pieschke (182 votes to 148) in last November’s general election. Normandeau will face off against Jean-Guy Brousseau […]

After a hiatus due to the pandemic, the Shawville Lions Country Jamboree is returning to the Armstrong Heritage Farm for the 19th year this Thursday evening. Lions President Ed Walsh explained that they had a full lineup of local acts who are well-known in the Ottawa Valley, as well as a few performers from further […]

More than 150 vehicles gathered in the small village of Rapides-des-Joachims this past Saturday (July 9) for the Downtown Life Committee’s fifth car show. According to organizer and committee President Paul André Paquette, close to 400 people visited the community, which has a year-round population of less than 200. Gearheads came from all over the […]

Last evening (July 7), the MRC Pontiac council of mayors met for a special meeting at the MRC office in Campbell’s Bay, with the sole item on the agenda being listed as “Human resources files”. The public part of the meeting, which was scheduled for 6:30 p.m., was preceded by an in-camera (private) discussion by […]

On Saturday, July 9, the fifth annual car show will take place in the remote hamlet of Rapides-des-Joachims. The event is put on by the Downtown Life Committee and there will be free family-friendly activities from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Registration for the show is free (though donations are accepted) and will take place […]

Last month, Quebec’s provincial forest fire fighting agency SOPFEU recorded the fewest number of fires since they started collecting uniform statistics in 1984. Only ten fires were recorded across the province’s southern protection zone in June, affecting just 0.1 hectares of land. For the past 10 years, the average number of fires recorded in June […]