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Franklin eyeing this summer as first bright season in decades
The Laconia Daily Sun | Adam Drapcho | May 7, 2021 FRANKLIN — Tourism businesses in the Lakes Region are hoping that a busy summer will snap them out of... -
N.H. city hopes to make a big splash with a whitewater park and a renamed downtown
A new name for downtown? It won't be the first community to rename itself, and it probably won't be the last. Boston.com | Jon Gorey - Globe Correspondent | April... -
New England’s first whitewater park is set to open this year
The free park, funded by $2.5 million in grant money and private donations, will offer kayaking, boogie boarding, whitewater rafting, and surfing on Winnipesaukee River year-round, as well as walking and biking trails, camping, water play areas for kids, and an amphitheater. The park will attract about 162,000 visitors who will spend about $7 million annually in the region, Parichand said. -
Boat Bash goes small this year, pledges big return
Before last year, the Boat Bash drew a lot of spectators. Two kayakers, poised side by side in half-pipes of snow, would hurtle themselves at reckless speeds down the slope, which began with a 230-foot vertical drop, said Jim Jones, co-president of the Franklin Outing Club, which operates the facility. -
Mill City Park accepts donation from MVSB
The Laconia Daily Sun | February 12, 2021 Mill City Park. (Courtesy photo) FRANKLIN — Meredith Village Savings Bank has purchased $25,000 in tax credits through the New Hampshire Community... -
Half of Life...
I had watched him and others race at the Merrimack River during the July 4th festivities. This was back when the river still had whitewater slalom gates at Arm's Park, where the Crack Pipe Wave still sits. -
Franklin: Reimagined and Revitalized
Learn more about Mill City Park’s summer opening NH Magazine | Anna-Kate Munsey | April 21, 2021 New Hampshire’s smallest city has big plans. Once a thriving mill town, City... -
Ground broken on Franklin’s Mill City Park, a future whitewater destination
Concord Monitor | Julia Stinneford | April 8, 2021 When Marty Parichand was 16, his father took him white-water rafting on the Penobscot River in Maine. “As we were carrying... -
Whitewater park gaining steam in Franklin
The Laconia Daily Sun | Adam Drapcho | June 26, 2020 FRANKLIN — Several years ago, when Marty Parichand first floated the idea of a downtown whitewater park, it sounded... -
Paddlers from across N.E. descend on Franklin for Winni River Days
Concord Moniter | Leah Willingham | June 22, 2019 Greg Lee noticed something special when he was whitewater paddling in Franklin on Friday. “It’s nice to have people cheering for... -
Tax credits to help with building of freestyle kayaking hole in Franklin
The proposed whitewater park on the Winnipesaukee River in Franklin now has funding flowing fast enough to begin construction on a freestyle
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Franklin boat bash wraps up Winter Carnival
Matt Melcher, wearing bib No. 29, and Heidi Chaney. No. 5, shoot down the race course Saturday in head-to-head competition at the third annual Boat Bash – Snow Crash. Held at the Veterans Memorial Recreation Area, the event capped the Franklin Outing Club’s 57th Winter Carnival and is a fundraiser both for the outing club and Mill City Park at Franklin Falls, a group formed in 2017 to promote the construction of a whitewater park on the Winnipesaukee River. - John Koziol/Union Leader Correspondent
