STEPHEN RICCIO SHAWVILLE Jan. 12, 2021 The Municipality of Shawville is offering a $100 reward to help identify a vandal who made their way around Shawville in the early hours on Jan. 12 and spray-painted COVID-related messages on several different

STEPHEN RICCIO MUNICIPALITY OF PONTIAC Jan. 12, 2021 The Municipality of Pontiac (MoP) held its first council meeting of the New Year on Jan. 12, connecting virtually via Zoom to discuss the 2021 tax increase, chemin Tremblay rehabilitation and other

CALEB NICKERSON PONTIAC Jan. 13, 2021 The provincial government has implemented an overnight curfew to go along with its extension of lockdown conditions for another four weeks, until Feb. 8. The previous lockdown was set to run out on Jan.

CALEB NICKERSON FORT COULONGE Jan. 10, 2021 On Sunday afternoon, the second Pontiac protest against lockdown measures took place in downtown Fort Coulonge. The gathering was slightly smaller than the one that took place in Shawville the previous weekend, but

Compiled by Caleb Nickerson, Emily Hsueh an Stephen Riccio JANUARY New year, new baby The Outaouais region’s first baby of 2020 arrived just after 2 a.m. on Jan. 1 at the Gatineau Hospital. Lexi-Anne Helmer was welcomed into the world

Compiled by Caleb Nickerson, Emily Hsueh and Stephen Riccio JULY Quyon Canada Day The Quyon Canada Day Committee managed to host an outdoor Canada Day celebration at the Quyon ferry landing despite COVID-19 restrictions, holding a barbeque, an outdoor Zumba

CALEB NICKERSON SHAWVILLE Jan. 3, 2021 A group of demonstrators took to the streets of Shawville on Sunday afternoon to protest public health restrictions. More than 50 people turned up to the gathering, travelling the length of Main Street waving

CALEB NICKERSON PONTIAC Dec.16, 2020 On Dec. 16, MRC Pontiac Council of Mayors voted in favour of a resolution supporting the decentralization of health care administration across the province and also received an update on the status of the Pontiac

CALEB NICKERSON SHAWVILLE Dec 16, 2020 The operating room at the Pontiac Community Hospital (PCH) can handle a lot of things. Patients come in requiring anything from an appendix removed to complex bowel resections. However, specialty surgeries are key to

STEPHEN RICCIO PONTIAC Dec. 9, 2020 The likelihood that the Fibre Pontiac project’s ideal partner, Renmatix, will officially name the Pontiac as its future home by the end of 2020 is low, according to Pierre Vézina, MRC Pontiac forestry consultant