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November 26, 2025

Caleb Nickerson

Have snow, will carve

CALEB NICKERSON SHAWVILLE Feb. 23, 2021  On Feb. 23, a class of grade six students from Dr. S.E. McDowell Elementary School were hard at work

Notable women honoured

CALEB NICKERSON PONTIAC March 3, 2021  A virtual exhibit honouring four notable women of the Pontiac will be unveiled next week to mark International Women’s

‘‘It’s over for the little guy”

There’s a great scene in HBO’s classic television series The Sopranos: two mafia wiseguys enter a Starbucks-type coffee franchise and attempt to give the manager

Allumettes passes resolution on fixing land lines

CALEB NICKERSON L’ISLE AUX ALLUMETTES March 2, 2021 The Allumettes Island municipal council, at their last meeting on March 2, unanimously passed a resolution demanding that Bell address the shoddy phone lines in the region. Put forward by councillor Louis

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Local dairy farmer weighs in on hard butter

CALEB NICKERSON PONTIAC March 10, 2021 The national news media have focused in on butter over the last month, following anecdotes about how it remains hard at room temperature. Local UPA rep and dairy farmer Scott Judd explained that the

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Have snow, will carve

CALEB NICKERSON SHAWVILLE Feb. 23, 2021  On Feb. 23, a class of grade six students from Dr. S.E. McDowell Elementary School were hard at work sculpting creations out of the snow on the front lawn. Outdoor education instructor Alan Earwaker,

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Man injured in Clarendon snowmobile crash

CALEB NICKERSON CLARENDON Feb. 23, 2021  A snowmobiler was injured and his sled totalled after he struck a gate along the PPJ trail in Clarendon on Feb. 23.  According to Shawville Clarendon Fire Chief Lee Laframboise, the accident was called

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Notable women honoured

CALEB NICKERSON PONTIAC March 3, 2021  A virtual exhibit honouring four notable women of the Pontiac will be unveiled next week to mark International Women’s Day.  Put on by Fairbairn House Heritage Centre in Wakefield, the exhibit will recognize the

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Allumettes residents experience landline outages

CALEB NICKERSON L’ISLE AUX ALLUMETTES March 3, 2021 While it seems that the power outages in Allumettes Island have largely subsided, the region has been hit with numerous breaks in their telephone service since the start of the year. Allumettes

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‘‘It’s over for the little guy”

There’s a great scene in HBO’s classic television series The Sopranos: two mafia wiseguys enter a Starbucks-type coffee franchise and attempt to give the manager an offer he can’t refuse. Either he pays their “merchant’s protective cooperative” or they and

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