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Making Waves (or how about making more waves?)
Moving forward to 2022, we built one third of the whitewater park. Each year that goes by we see an increase...
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Jan 154 min read
Plan to make Franklin area a regional draw expands
Concord Monitor | By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI | January 15, 2024 Marty Parichand’s vision for a new whitewater park may sound repetitive. For...
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Marty
Dec 25, 20234 min read
Group behind New England's first whitewater park adds polar plunge to New Year's Day celebration
Union Leader, John Koziol, 12/25/23 FRANKLIN — The nonprofit group behind developing New England’s first whitewater park has added a...
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Marty
Nov 8, 20231 min read
New Hampshire's smallest city is packed with day trip activities
Franklin has seen economic struggles over the years, but revitalization is coming in part by use of an important source: water. WCVB...
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Marty
Aug 28, 20234 min read
Franklin hoping for federal funding to finish construction of whitewater park
Laconia Daily Sun | J. Decker | Aug. 29, 2023 FRANKLIN — The remaining $2.5 million needed to complete Mill City Park could be funded by...
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oliviadame03
Feb 21, 20233 min read
VHB partners with Franklin and Mill City Park to open Northeast’s first whitewater park
Union Leader | From VHB | Feb. 21, 2023 Franklin city leaders estimate new venue will bring 185,000 annual visitors and $6.8 million...
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Marty
Jan 26, 20233 min read
Marty Parichand: Building the Northeast's First Whitewater Park Offers Proof-of-Concept for Old Mill
By Johanna Knapschaefer, Engineering News Record January 26, 2023 Marty Parichand’s father took him at age 16 on his first whitewater...
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oliviadame03
Nov 17, 20225 min read
Franklin, N.H. Builds New England’s First Whitewater Park
Second whitewater park east of the Mississippi provides proof of concept for other New England mill towns ENR New England | Johanna...
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oliviadame03
Jun 21, 20225 min read
Mill City Park officially opens with ribbon cuttings, whitewater festival
The Laconia Daily Sun | Thomas P. Caldwell | June 21, 2022 FRANKLIN — Six years of work at transforming the Three Rivers City from a...
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oliviadame03
Mar 27, 20223 min read
Whitewater Gives Life to NH’s Smallest City
has been working with the City of Franklin since 2015 to create the first whitewater park in New England.
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oliviadame03
Mar 17, 20224 min read
From mills to whitewater, Franklin’s economy driven by the river
The Laconia Daily Sun | Jon Decker | March 18, 2022 FRANKLIN — Franklin is a city of rivers. Both the Winnipesaukee and Pemigewasset pass...
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oliviadame03
Oct 5, 20212 min read
‘Standing wave’ takes shape at Franklin’s whitewater park
Union Leader | John Koziol | Oct. 5, 2021 The first whitewater park in New England is quickly taking shape in downtown Franklin, with...
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oliviadame03
Jul 7, 20215 min read
Visionaries Are Bringing Back The Mill City
InDepthNH.org | Thomas P. Caldwell | July 7, 2021 By Thomas P. Caldwell, InDepthNH.org The city of Franklin has been struggling to...
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oliviadame03
May 8, 20214 min read
Ground broken on Franklin’s Mill City Park, a future whitewater destination
Concord Monitor | Julia Stinneford | May 8, 2021 Photos from 4/29/21 taken by Geoff Forester - Monitor Staff When Marty Parichand was 16,...
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oliviadame03
Apr 11, 20212 min read
New England’s first whitewater park is set to open this year
boston.com | Kristi Palma | April 11, 2021 A central New Hampshire city is transforming its downtown, creating a 13-acre park where...
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oliviadame03
Aug 27, 20202 min read
Franklin Ready to Ride a Tourism Wave
Business NH Magazine | Aug. 27, 2020 With approvals and permits issued by the NH Department of Environmental Services, the City of...
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Marty
Jun 2, 20203 min read
Franklin Receives 1st Whitewater Park Permit
“I want to thank Commissioner Scott and his team at DES for believing in this project, says City Manager Judie Milner, “they certainly...
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Marty
Nov 19, 20192 min read
Proposed Franklin whitewater and outdoor park wins regional planners’ award
Mill City Park, the private/public partnership that wants to build on the Winnipesaukee River a first-of-its kind “community whitewater...
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Marty
Nov 15, 20192 min read
2019 Northern New England Project of the Year
Thursday night the Northern New England Chapter of the American Planners Association presented Mill City Park and the City of Franklin...
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Marty
Nov 10, 20192 min read
Mayor Pete Swings by Outdoor New England
Last Saturday, Mayor Pete, democratic presidential candidate stopped in to Outdoor New England to chit chat with Marty. They discussed white
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