Concord Monitor | By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI | January 15, 2024 Marty Parichand’s vision for a new whitewater park may sound repetitive. For...

Union Leader, John Koziol, 12/25/23 FRANKLIN — The nonprofit group behind developing New England’s first whitewater park has added a...

Laconia Daily Sun | J. Decker | Aug. 29, 2023 FRANKLIN — The remaining $2.5 million needed to complete Mill City Park could be funded by...

The Laconia Daily Sun | Thomas P. Caldwell | June 21, 2022 FRANKLIN — Six years of work at transforming the Three Rivers City from a...

has been working with the City of Franklin since 2015 to create the first whitewater park in New England.

Union Leader | John Koziol | Oct. 5, 2021 The first whitewater park in New England is quickly taking shape in downtown Franklin, with...

Concord Monitor | Julia Stinneford | May 8, 2021 Photos from 4/29/21 taken by Geoff Forester - Monitor Staff When Marty Parichand was 16,...

Mill City Park, the private/public partnership that wants to build on the Winnipesaukee River a first-of-its kind “community whitewater...

Last Saturday, Mayor Pete, democratic presidential candidate stopped in to Outdoor New England to chit chat with Marty. They discussed white

When most people hear about the nonprofit Mill City Park, an organization working to bring a whitewater park to Franklin, they think about..

The churning waterways that helped give Franklin its nickname and powered its once-thriving mills are now helping to drive its rebirth.

The Three Rivers City is poised for an economic revival through two major projects that will answer a longstanding need: attracting outsider

Can people playing in a river help revitalize a struggling city? Can the recreational opportunities in and along a river actually improve...

The Capital Regional Development Council, recently awarded a total of $10,000 to two separate initiatives aimed at reviving downtown...

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...

The race course needed snow trucked in, but paddlers still made a go of the Boat Bash Snow Crash.

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.”

Efforts to create New England’s first whitewater park got a double infusion of capital on Monday when Franklin Savings Bank pledged $250,000

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

Standing in front of a wall that separates economic development offices from travel and tourism in the newly created Department of Business