Murder mystery success no surprise: Keeper Willard Dobbs turns up dead at the Campbell’s Point lighthouse and there are eight suspects. How will the detective in charge of the case (Bert Hill) sort through the lies and alibis to nab the murderer?

With the help of 140 amateur sleuths at “An Evening of Murder” hosted by the Pontiac Lionettes and Lions, that’s how.

“Tickets sold like hot cakes,” said Lionette Linda Lagarde, who played Linda Queensley at the Campbell’s Bay Recreation Association Hall which was packed for the second murder mystery event.

Many of the 250 people arrived early for a table near the stage so they wouldn’t miss a clue. After the hot and cold buffet dinner was dispensed with, it was time to start working on a tough case.

High fuel prices burning truckers: Truckers across North America are not happy about high diesel fuel prices and aren’t taking it anymore.

In the past two weeks, truckers have mobilized protests, including a convoy to Parliament Hill to deliver the message that escalating fuel prices threaten to run them out of business. However, trucking is going on as usual in Pontiac with truckers biting the bullet out of necessity.

“We’re sacrificing to keep going,” says Mansfield trucker Conrad Denault, who trucks logs to the Coulonge Forest Product sawmill in Liltchfield.

Denault says it is not feasible for log truckers to stop trucking because they run for only seven or eight months a year.