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April 2, 2026

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Gearing up for graduation season

Zainab Al-Mehdar Shawville June 15, 2022 A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to celebrate the success of students in schools around Pontiac are hosting the first graduation events

Putting Pontiac on the map through music

Zainab Al-Mehdar Fort-Coulonge June 3, 2022 Bringing the country to Pontiac, Carole Faubert and Phil Denault celebrated their fifth anniversary of the Country Music Festival

Fragile with a chance of immortality

As tribute to Anna Stewart, a long-time Bryson social notes writer, her niece, Lynn Glover, created a series of ceramic sculptures featuring excerpts from her

Gearing up for graduation season

Zainab Al-Mehdar Shawville June 15, 2022 A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to celebrate the success of students in schools around Pontiac are hosting the first graduation events since covid restrictions put a hold on them. After almost two years of putting them

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Putting Pontiac on the map through music

Zainab Al-Mehdar Fort-Coulonge June 3, 2022 Bringing the country to Pontiac, Carole Faubert and Phil Denault celebrated their fifth anniversary of the Country Music Festival in Fort-Coulonge and Mansfield. The couple hosted one of the biggest music festivals in the

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First ever Pride event held in the Pontiac

Brett Thoms Fort-Coulonge June 11, 2022 The inaugural LGBTQ pride event was held in the Pontiac on Saturday at Le Patro in Fort-Coulonge. The event, which was hosted by Pontiac Pride, was titled the Youth and Community Pride festival. During

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New archaeology project announced
in the MoP

Brett Thoms Fort-Coulonge June 8, 2022 The Friends of Chat Falls, a heritage and environmental conservation group based in the Municipality of Pontiac (MoP) MRC des Collines and others to start the work on a long-term archeology project in the

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Fragile with a chance of immortality

As tribute to Anna Stewart, a long-time Bryson social notes writer, her niece, Lynn Glover, created a series of ceramic sculptures featuring excerpts from her columns in THE EQUITY. One of the pieces is currently displayed at . . .

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Grand opening of the new Stone School Shop

Zainab Al-Mehdar Portage-du-Fort June 3, 2022 ArtPontiac held its grand opening of the new Stone School Shop which brought in many people from all over town. The shop allows community members to enjoy and purchase a wide range of .

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