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Following the recent news that the National Bank will be relocating their branch in Shawville, from downtown at the corner of rue Centre and rue Main, to the strip mall along Hwy. 148, CHIP 101.9 spoke with Alexandre Guay, a senior public affairs advisor with the bank to learn more about the move. He explained […]

The Quebec Games will take place from March 3 to 11 in Rivière-du-Loup, welcoming athletes from all over Quebec between the ages of 13 and 17. Among the Outaouais delegation, two athletes from Pontiac will participate in gymnastics, Teo Challita from Shawville and Aude Croteau from the Luskville sector of the Municipality of Pontiac. About […]

Dave Hérault was elected to Fort-Coulonge council seat one in last night’s byelection, CHIP 101.9 has learned. The result of the vote was again close for the other candidate, Freeda Béchamp-Graveline, who received 192 votes against 196 for Hérault. Recall that in the 2021 general election, Béchamp-Graveline also finished 4 votes behind her opponent at […]

Next Saturday, March 4, the snowmobile drag races will return to the grounds across from the Centre de loisirs des Draveurs Century 21 Élite (Fort-Coulonge arena) for their 25th edition. This is the first time the event has returned since the pandemic and organizer Pierre Laporte exaplained that this year they would be donating their […]

The board of directors at Loisir sport Outaouais (LSO) announced in a press release that as of March 17 of this year, Frédérique Delisle will be leaving her post of director general, which she has occupied since 2012. Speaking on behalf of the board, chair Jean-Yves Lord thanked her for her work. “Frederique has shown […]

At the last MRC Pontiac council of mayors meeting on February 15, the council passed a resolution in support of the Municipality of L’Isle-aux-Allumettes (full text at the end of the article) regarding the lengthy power outages that hit the Upper Pontiac during a cold snap at the beginning of the month. The resolution calls […]

The members of the Shawville 150 committee have decided to extend the deadline for their logo drawing contest to Canada Day (July 1). Councillor Katie Sharpe explained that they had originally planned to end the contest in February, but extended the deadline to get more participation. The contest has both a youth (under 18 as […]

After being cut off from all means of communication during the intense cold in early February, residents of Isle-aux-Allumettes are still experiencing problems with the communications infrastructure. Between Monday and Wednesday (February 20 to 22) the landline for the Raymond Line sector was down. During a French-language live interview with the local farmer David Gillespie, […]

In addition to the ongoing issues with electricity service and cellular coverage in the Municipality of L’Isle-aux-Allumettes, there is also the longstanding issue of shoddy landline service in certain sectors as well. Residents of the Raymond Line area on the island have been having interruptions to their service every spring for the past few years. […]

Students from École secondaire Sieur-de-Coulonge took part in a long-distance ski activity at the Patro in Mansfield on February 22. Organizer Martin Bertrand explained that they weren’t able to do the ski to parliament trip that they normally do this time of year for a variety of reasons, including the ice conditions on the Ottawa […]