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The second annual Pontiac Pride Festival was postponed earlier this month due to health concerns related to forest fire smoke in the area, but has been rescheduled to September 10 at Esprit Rafting in Davidson. Erica Ouimet, a member of the Fierté Pontiac Pride committee, explained that with the event originally planned for Saturday June […]

The labour dispute between local school bus drivers and the bus line Autobus Lasalle is now officially over, as a majority of drivers voted this morning (June 26) in favour of a new collective agreement. Denis Ouellette, a regional rep with Teamsters Local 106, the union representing 96 Autobus Lasalle drivers in the Pontiac area, […]

On Thursday morning (June 22), the Carrefour jeunesse-emploi du Pontiac held their annual general meeting, where they discussed the work done by their staff across several different programs. The organization specializes in helping break down the barriers for youth and adults to find employment, by subsidizing employee training, working with students in schools and even […]

On Tuesday evening, members of Campbell’s Bay council were presented with a cheque for $12,000 from the organizers of the first annual Maurice Beauregard Memorial 3-pitch tournament, which took place back in May. Beauregard, the former mayor of the town, passed away from cancer in October 2022 and his family organized the tournament as a […]

Two missing crew members who were on board a military helicopter that crashed in the Ottawa River near Garrison Petawawa yesterday morning have been found dead. The names of the deceased are not being released at the request of their families. The two were part of a four-person team aboard a CH-147F Chinook from 450 […]

The region’s two newspapers, The Equity and Journal du Pontiac, won a number of awards at the Quebec Community Newspapers Association (QCNA) Gala in Gatineau on Friday. The QCNA represents English-language community newspapers in Quebec. Among the winners, François Carrier, CHIP 101.9 director and editorial writer for the Pontiac Journal, was the only nominee in […]

On Monday evening (June 19), MRC Pontiac Warden Jane Toller hosted a town hall meeting at Shawville United Church to discuss the “Energy from Waste” project that she’s been an advocate of for many years, with 15 people in attendance. Her proposal is preliminary, and she noted the next step in the plan is to […]

The Canadian Armed Forces are searching the Ottawa River for two crew members of a military helicopter that crashed in the Ottawa River this morning just after midnight. “The Royal Canadian Air Force is currently involved in a search for two missing members of 450 Tactical Helicopter Squadron following the crash of a CH-147F Chinook […]

Fort-Coulonge Mayor Christine Francoeur was pleased with the turnout to the Village en fête celebrations that took place in town on Saturday (June 17). Some thirty merchants and organizations were on hand for the occasion, and several hundred people turned out. “It’s quite an event, let me tell you. People are here, the sun’s out […]

MRC Pontiac has faced no shortage of environmental crises this year, from an ice storm knocking out power to thousands of homes, to spring flooding that threatened riverfront communities to the forest fires that blanketed the region in smoke these past few weeks. MRC Pontiac Territory Director Jason Durand stopped by CHIP 101.9’s studios this […]