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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Marty
Dec 3, 20183 min read
Plans for proposed Franklin water park include walking trails, camping site
When most people hear about the nonprofit Mill City Park, an organization working to bring a whitewater park to Franklin, they think about..
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Marty
Sep 10, 20189 min read
Franklin: From Troubled Waters to Whitewater Park
The churning waterways that helped give Franklin its nickname and powered its once-thriving mills are now helping to drive its rebirth.
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Marty
Apr 20, 20185 min read
Franklin Set for Transformation
The Three Rivers City is poised for an economic revival through two major projects that will answer a longstanding need: attracting outsider
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Marty
Apr 20, 20186 min read
Franklin bets on revitalization with new park
Can people playing in a river help revitalize a struggling city? Can the recreational opportunities in and along a river actually improve...
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Marty
Apr 17, 20182 min read
Two Franklin projects win CRDC grants
The Capital Regional Development Council, recently awarded a total of $10,000 to two separate initiatives aimed at reviving downtown...
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Marty
Apr 15, 20183 min read
CRDC Awards Community Grants to Two Economic Development Projects in Downtown Franklin, NH
CRDC awarded Mill City Park at Franklin Falls $5,000 to help fund the development of a master plan for 9.32 acres of land surrounding...
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Marty
Mar 5, 20182 min read
Boat Bash Snow Crash: Franklin making name for itself with downhill kayak race
The race course needed snow trucked in, but paddlers still made a go of the Boat Bash Snow Crash.
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Marty
Nov 9, 20172 min read
Proposed Whitewater Park Poised to Transform Franklin Economy
The old adage says that “a rising tide floats all boats.”
In the City of Franklin, it is more apt to say “whitewater floats a new economy.”
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Marty
Nov 8, 20173 min read
Whitewater Park Gets Big Boost
Efforts to create New England’s first whitewater park got a double infusion of capital on Monday when Franklin Savings Bank pledged $250,000
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Marty
Nov 7, 20172 min read
Franklin paddle park plan gets $430,000 cash infusion
A century ago, the Winnipesaukee River powered the mills that were the city’s lifeblood.
On Monday, it was announced that $180,000 in feder
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Marty
Aug 26, 20174 min read
New Commisioner: NH Entrepreneurship, workforce top list
Standing in front of a wall that separates economic development offices from travel and tourism in the newly created Department of Business
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