The Pontiac Lions Club organized a full day of activities to raise money for the families of Steve Morin and Charlie Frost, two Campbell’s Bay residents who died tragically in a snowmobile accident in Mansfield this winter.
The Pontiac Lions Club organized a full day of activities to raise money for the families of Steve Morin and Charlie Frost, two Campbell’s Bay residents who died tragically in a snowmobile accident in Mansfield this winter.
Residents of Bristol have voted in former mayor Brent Orr to fill the municipality’s vacant council seat in the by-election
At the MRC Pontiac council of mayors meeting on June 18, council approved the annual budget for the upkeep of
The St-Aubin farm in Otter Lake was converted into a veritable dust bowl for three days this weekend as over
Organizers of the Municipality of Pontiac’s fourth annual Pontiac Country Festival are celebrating another year of growth. “It went well.
George St-Pierre served with the Otter Lake fire department for the better part of his adult life. From 1989 up
AutonHomme Pontiac plans to expand its reach into the MRC Pontiac’s more remote corners this fall with a new mobile
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June 30, 2026
This Canada Day, we are sharing an editorial first published in this newspaper on July 1, 1987. At the time, many editorials were printed without a name attached to them, meant to reflect the general opinion of the newspaper rather than any particular writer here. Nearly three decades after its publication, elements of this editorial still ring true today. As
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The Equity has been the Pontiac’s newspaper of record for more than 140 years. Since 1977, we have preserved a massive collection of film negatives—capturing both the moments that made the front page and the thousands of shots that never left the darkroom. By the time we transitioned to digital in 2003, we had amassed 45 binders containing an estimated 120,000 to 150,000 photos.
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