Welcome to Keene
Keene, located in the Monadnock Region, is a quaint town with much history and culture. It is the home of Keene State College and the Swamp Bats, a minor league baseball team. And it is the home of the Pumpkin Festival, which has produced enough carved pumpkins being lit to make it into the Guiness World Book of Records.
Keene is the area's hot spot for great food, coffee, and shopping. With several areas of shopping from the Colony Mills to the Monadnock Shopping Plaza and more you can find just about everything you need right here in town.
Finding Keene
In the News
- The Keene Sentinel
- The fifth oldest newspaper in the country, The Keene Sentinel is the area's local daily newspaper.
- Monadnock Shopper News
- The Monadnock Shopper News has been a source of advertising information since 1959. This free paper is mailed out and available at local businesses weekly.
- Parent Express
- The web site of Parent Express, Windham & Cheshire Counties' parent newspaper. Published monthly, this newspaper is free and available at more than 240 locations in the area.
Keeping the Kids Busy
- MANY Options
- MANY Options is a non-profit program for students in grades five through nine aimed at giving teens positive experiences during after school hours.
Run by Monadnock Family Services, the program gives students daily activity choices. These include volunteering at the Monadnock Humane Society, using computers, dance lessons, swimming at the YMCA, a cooking club, and much, much more.
A safe walk from Keene Middle School, the program is housed on Vernon Street, with an entrance on Washington Street, in Keene and runs Monday through Friday on the SAU 29 school district schedule from 2:30-5:30pm. The program is open to all residents of the area. - Keene Family YMCA
- With a swimming pool and rock climbing wall, kids are sure to love the YMCA. They have a wide variety of programs for members of the entire family. They also have an after school program.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Monadnock Region: Home Page
- Big Brothers Big Sisters helps children reach their potential through professionally supported one-to-one relationships. If you have a child who could use some positive adult role models and some extra support, this is an excellent program for it.
- The Keene Scene
- Welcome to The Keene Scene, the best site on the web for events happening in and around Keene, NH for tweens and teens. This site was created for tweens and teens, parents, and anyone interested in providing fun, safe programs and entertainment for the youth of Keene and the surrounding area.
Sites of Interest
- City of Keene
- This site is the official web site for the City of Keene. You can find phone numbers, job opportunities, and much more here.
- Parks & Recreation Department
- If you have kids then this is a link you're definitely going to want to check out. Keene has a very active Recreation Dept. and there's always something going on. There are programs for adults and senior citizens as well.
- Welcome to SAU 29
- Keene is part of the SAU 29 School District. You can find the web sites for all the schools in Keene, and the other towns in the school district, and find out about school closings.
- Greater Keene Chamber of Commerce - Keene, NH
- If you have a business or are looking for one then this is the place to go. Located in downtown Keene the Chamber of Commerce is easy to get to.
- Keene Public Library
- The Keene Public Library is wonderful. They have a huge children's section as well as many videos and DVDs to borrow and a wide variety of programs. Their web site offers even more opportunities for doing research from home and learning.
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Pumpkins Anyone?
Keene has been the home of the Pumpkin Festival since 1991, where they had 600 lit pumpkins lining the streets of downtown Keene. The festival has grown over the years and is now one of the highlights of the calendar for those in the area as well as those venturing here just to see the pumpkins.Over the years they have broken the Guiness Book of World Records several times, the last being in 2003 with 28,952 carved pumpkins being lit at the same time. In 2006 Boston swept the record from Keene with 30,128 pumpkins. To make up for it, Keene had a record breaking crowd of around 80,000 visitors.
Sports
- Keene Swampbats
- The Keene Swamp Bats - the baseball kind, that is - are not a figment of the imagination. This summer they will continue the proud tradition of baseball in Keene as a member of the New England Collegiate Baseball League.
The team was named the seventh member of the New England Collegiate Baseball League in November, 1997. The Keene Swamp Bats are a non-profit organization. - Keene State College Athletics
- Keene State College is a leader in athletic and recreational program excellence. We provide a quality experience for all levels of participation. Through participation, students will enhance academic productivity, improve physical and psychological fitness, and gain social skills, which add to their quality of life.
- Boston Red Sox
- Get news, schedules and merchandise for the Boston Red Sox baseball team here.
- Boston Bruins
- Get news, schedules and merchandise for the Boston Bruins hockey team here.
- Boston Celtics
- Get news, schedules and merchandise for the Boston Celtics basketball team.
Keene: Video Style
Keene NH: Ridley Report, informed juries & Free Minds TV
Here's a promo the guys at Free Minds TV requested I do for their show in Keene. I don't know if it's airing yet but I sent them a copy on CD a couple weeks back. I figure if you only have one thing to say to people, you should say something about their right to ignore the judge in rendering jury verdicts. Free Minds TV is on the web at http://FreeMindsTV.com The Fully Informed Jury Association website is FIJA.org Note that the court house in the video is from a different county; Keene is in Cheshire Co. not Hillsborough Co. Additional Keywords: freedom new hampshire state house free press legislature ron paul revolution american civil liberties union dave ridley report libertarian democrat republican politics hillary clinton barack obama real id john mccain ed brown elaine brown IRS john lynch free talk live lauren canario liberty alliance george free state project albert howard free keene nh free monadnock freekeene.com ian bernard toby iselin david manning dale manning nhfree.com marijuana decriminalization legalization drugs state college high school market anarchist anarchocapitalist house project nh cable cheshire county television cable new hampshire free press ron paul lauren canario free minds tv free keene monadnock state college high school cheshire co.
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