Behind the scenes with Pontiac’s only coffee roaster
May 11, 2026
About once a week, anyone walking down Shawville’s Main Street might pick up on something peculiar in the air. A nutty, somewhat chocolatty, somewhat acidic
About once a week, anyone walking down Shawville’s Main Street might pick up on something peculiar in the air. A nutty, somewhat chocolatty, somewhat acidic
It was raining men – and donations for the Shawville Arena – at the second annual men’s night on Friday hosted by the Pontiac Arena
The Outaouais is off to an unusually active start to wildfire season, just months after SOPFEU recorded its busiest fall fire season on record. Since
The new processing facility, located in Shawville, is intended to be used by local agricultural producers to transform their raw goods into marketable products.
Shawville Giant Tiger held a celebration to mark the company’s 65th birthday on Saturday. Store owner Brandyn Gauthier said that they had been given $1,000
Though the weather was chilly, more than a dozen children and some pets came out to Maurice Beauregard Park in Campbell’s Bay for the second
Last week a new Transcollines bus line servicing the Pontiac region started operation, adding two more daily round trips to and from Gatineau, though the
After waiting 45 minutes for an ambulance, a Thorne resident says first responders are needed more than ever.
Local theatre group Pontiac Community Players hosted its annual general meeting on Apr. 25, during which it summarized its 2025 activities, presented a positive financial
About once a week, anyone walking down Shawville’s Main Street might pick up on something peculiar in the air. A nutty, somewhat chocolatty, somewhat acidic smell rides the breeze for a few hours, and if you’re positioned just downwind of
It was raining men – and donations for the Shawville Arena – at the second annual men’s night on Friday hosted by the Pontiac Arena Fund (PAF). President Mike Rusenstrom estimates an attendance of over 600 for Friday’s event, the
The Outaouais is off to an unusually active start to wildfire season, just months after SOPFEU recorded its busiest fall fire season on record. Since the beginning of April, as of May 8 SOPFEU had responded to 24 fires in
The new processing facility, located in Shawville, is intended to be used by local agricultural producers to transform their raw goods into marketable products.
Shawville Giant Tiger held a celebration to mark the company’s 65th birthday on Saturday. Store owner Brandyn Gauthier said that they had been given $1,000 by Giant Tiger’s head office to give away to a charity of their choice, and
Though the weather was chilly, more than a dozen children and some pets came out to Maurice Beauregard Park in Campbell’s Bay for the second annual bike parade on Saturday. Put on by community group the Parent Hive, the event
Last week a new Transcollines bus line servicing the Pontiac region started operation, adding two more daily round trips to and from Gatineau, though the service was not officially announced to the public until after the bus’s first trip had
After waiting 45 minutes for an ambulance, a Thorne resident says first responders are needed more than ever.
Local theatre group Pontiac Community Players hosted its annual general meeting on Apr. 25, during which it summarized its 2025 activities, presented a positive financial report and foreshadowed some of the projects under way for 2026. The meeting held at
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