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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 […]

The Pontiac North Fire Department, which covers the Municipalities of Thorne and Otter Lake, recently acquired several hydraulic rescue tools (known as jaws of life) from nearby departments, in an effort to expand the capacity of their first-responders. Randy Richard, a lieutenant with Pontiac North, explained that they acquired a hand-me-down combination tool from the […]

MRC Pontiac has given notice for a special sitting of the council of mayors this Thursday August 24 at 10 a.m. at the MRC office in Campbell’s Bay. Several topics of note are on the agenda, including the energy from waste file. Agenda 1. Opening and attendance 2. Declaration of conformity of the notice of […]

Following the public announcement earlier this week by the owners of the Davidson Sawmill that they would be scrapping their plans to reopen the site, MRC Pontiac Warden Jane Toller spoke with media about the subject following the public council meeting on August 16. In the statement, company CEO Hubert St-Cyr said that the reason […]

The Pride flags flying outside two local Anglican churches have been repeatedly stolen over the past few weeks. About a month ago, the flag was torn off its frame at Holy Trinity Church in Radford (just outside Shawville). In the following weeks, the flag at St. Paul’s Church in Shawville was stolen three times, and […]

TransporAction Pontiac, a non-profit public transit service for the region, is currently seeking volunteers to shore up its roster of drivers. Executive Director Sylvie Bertrand gave a presentation on the subject at the MRC Pontiac public council meeting on August 16, noting that there are certain communities with more need than others. While the organization […]

The following is a translation, the original article is available here.  The Board of Directors of Davidson Sawmill issued a press release, in which it said it was definitively ending its plan to relaunch the activities of this company, which has been closed for more than a decade now. At the same time, as he […]