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January 14, 2026

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Mansfield opens new highway rest stop

by Guillaume Laflamme Mansfield and Pontefract May 3, 2024 Mansfield and Pontefract celebrated the official opening of the municipality’s outdoor stopover along Highway 148 across

Pinkies out for high tea

by Guillaume Laflamme Fort Coulonge May 4, 2024 Women clad in fashionable dresses and dainty hats – think Audrey Hepburn circa My Fair Lady –

Social Notes – May 8, 2024

Quyon – Jillian Young Deepest sympathies are extended to the family and friends of Randy Dagenais, as he passed away on Apr. 26 at the

‘Sing us some opera, Mr. Holmes!’

by Sophie Kuijper Dickson Ottawa May 4, 2024 Pontiac High School theatre teacher and Clarendon farmer Phil Holmes is making a gradual return to the stage with his longtime passion of opera singing. On Saturday evening, Holmes joined the Rideau

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Fort Coulonge hosts rural recreation conference

by Sophie Kuijper Dickson Fort Coulonge May 1, 2024 Community leaders from across Quebec met in Fort Coulonge last week to exchange ideas about best practices for developing recreational and leisure facilities and programming in rural communities. The two-day conference,

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Mansfield opens new highway rest stop

by Guillaume Laflamme Mansfield and Pontefract May 3, 2024 Mansfield and Pontefract celebrated the official opening of the municipality’s outdoor stopover along Highway 148 across from the George Bryson House on Friday. The new stopover features covered picnic tables, an

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Pinkies out for high tea

by Guillaume Laflamme Fort Coulonge May 4, 2024 Women clad in fashionable dresses and dainty hats – think Audrey Hepburn circa My Fair Lady – spent Saturday afternoon at a high tea event put on by Shawville’s Bethel Pentecostal Church

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Social Notes – May 8, 2024

Quyon – Jillian Young Deepest sympathies are extended to the family and friends of Randy Dagenais, as he passed away on Apr. 26 at the age of 54. Thoughts and prayers are with his loved ones as they grieve this

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Sending your heart out into the world

“When you send your child out in the world it’s like your wearing your heart on your sleeve”, a friend once said this to me about her child and it has always resonated heavily with me. It’s so true. Once

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