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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

Bristol resident Deb Powell is the latest resident of that municipality to be honoured for volunteerism, receiving the Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for excellent volunteer service.  Powell has volunteered with different organizations since moving to Bristol about 15 years ago. She

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

Otter Lake has received provincial approval to lay canvas tarps at the Farm Lake boat launch in hopes of choking out the invasive Eurasian milfoil plant growing there. A few weeks ago, the province’s Ministry of Environment approved the municipality’s

Two more partners that previously provided some form of support to Quyon’s Maison de la Famille have suspended it.  In a letter sent to the Maison de la Famille in April, the Municipality of Pontiac notified the social service organization