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66th Year of Community Service, serving Keene, Peterborough, and the Mo

FYI...
07/09/2025

FYI...

We'll post our most current availability list later this week (with some exciting news you've been waiting to hear) 🌽

07/09/2025

An update on last nights suspended game ⬆️

Thank you for your understanding!

07/09/2025
07/08/2025
Moon3 year old female, black domestic shorthairMoon is a 3-year-old beauty with a quiet soul and a deeply independent na...
07/08/2025

Moon
3 year old female, black domestic shorthair
Moon is a 3-year-old beauty with a quiet soul and a deeply independent nature. Brought to us after her previous home was damaged, Moon has shown she prefers the calm and peaceful things in life. She’s not one for chaos or commotion, but give her a soft couch, a sunny window, and a calm human companion, and she’s perfectly content. While she lived peacefully with another cat, Magnolia, in her former home, their relationship was more “polite roommates” than playmates—Moon could coexist with another calm feline.
Once she builds trust, Moon will show her softer side—curling up in bed with you, quietly keeping you company during a TV binge, or snoozing nearby as you go about your day. If you’re looking for a peaceful, no-pressure companion who values quiet connection over constant attention, Moon might just be your perfect match. Come meet her during our open hours, Thursday-Sunday from 11-3.

Did you know you can read The Monadnock Shopper News on line and free of charge?
07/07/2025

Did you know you can read The Monadnock Shopper News on line and free of charge?

07/07/2025

Its World Chocolate Day - stop in for aome fresh chocolate today ! The AC is on !!

07/03/2025

A little rain won't stop this party! TONIGHT'S Independence Eve game & celebration is STILL ON! 🇺🇸🎉
We are aware there is still possible incoming rain before the game, but our team is busy getting everything prepped for an on-time start!

Sounds refreshing!
07/03/2025

Sounds refreshing!

Happy 4th of July Weekend! We will be open all weekend serving up some great flavors- S’mores, coffee toffee crunch, honey lavender… what’s not to love! With home made waffle cones, gelato sandwiches, affogatos, and milkshakes to try out, there’s something for everyone! Bring your family and enjoy a tasty treat!🤩🍦☀️

07/03/2025

Stars, Stripes, and SwampBats TONIGHT!! ⚾🇺🇸

🆚 Sanford Mainers
⏱️ 6:30 PM
📊https://tinyurl.com/3yw9djrz
🖥️ESPN+

It's the BIGGEST night of the summer, and the Bats are ready to light up the night on and off the field. Stay after the game to enjoy our amazing fireworks display. You can't miss this one! 🎆

| | New England Collegiate Baseball League

Happy 4th of July...Monadnock Shopper News will be closed on Friday the 4th and will re-open Monday, July 7th at 9am. Ha...
07/03/2025

Happy 4th of July...Monadnock Shopper News will be closed on Friday the 4th and will re-open Monday, July 7th at 9am. Have a safe and happy 4th!🇺🇸

This morning starting at 9:30!!!Ques. – In what Cheshire County village was this chair factory located?
07/03/2025

This morning starting at 9:30!!!
Ques. – In what Cheshire County village was this chair factory located?

Due to July 4th falling on Friday, we will be doing the Mystery Photo a day early this week!
Thursday...Thursday...Thursday...The first person to answer this week's mystery photo question correctly by calling 603-352-5296, starting Friday morning at 9:30 a.m. or after, will receive a certificate for $25 to The Pub. No answers can or should be left on Facebook. Phone calls only, please.
Ques. – In what Cheshire County village was this chair factory located?
Good Luck Everyone...Will be talking to you Thursday morning at 9:30 a.m.

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Keene, NH

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Monday 9am - 4pm
Tuesday 9am - 4pm
Wednesday 9am - 4pm
Thursday 9am - 4pm
Friday 9am - 4pm

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(603) 352-5250

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The Weekly with a Heart

Midway through 1958, Gabriel and Barbara Shakour started publishing a small paper known as The Keene Shopper in an 8x10 room with three desks. The room also happened to be in the basement of their home. Fifty years ago, the “Shopper” was a small publication, containing nothing but advertisements placed by small, local businesses in an effort to improve their profits and educate local consumers.

Fifty years later, you hold in your hands the natural evolution of that tiny advertising publication, a business that has grown up around it, and the hard work and dedication of three generations of employees, family, and local business owners. From that one basement room sprang a weekly community newspaper that’s had its own building since the early 1960s, has increased its circulation from 14,000 in 1958 to 42,000 in 2008, and has gone from three employees then to almost 20 employees now. What was (as recently as 20 years ago) painstakingly pasted together by hand is now created, laid out, and sent to the printer on computers. Today, we publish The Monadnock Shopper News, an evolution in the name brought about by the realization that to serve our readers best, we needed to provide them with news of immediate and local importance, not just the ads for products and services from local business owners.

Just about the only thing that hasn’t changed at this paper is its overriding mission, to support and serve local small businesses. Original publisher Gabriel Shakour was himself a small-business owner (many readers will remember the Keene Drive-In Theater), and knew full well the challenges and rewards inherent in doing business in our “tiny little corner of the world.” Since its inception the Shopper News’ mission has been to be helpful to local business, not adversarial, as a great deal of daily and national media can be. Second-generation Monadnock Shopper News publisher Mitchell Shakour says it best: “We’ve stayed true to helping small businesses in the community. The success of other businesses is our entire goal, and we will do whatever is legal and ethical in the service of that goal.”

“We don’t run negative ads,” he continues. “We want to keep this a family paper, based on the higher, common values that unite the members of this community: God, motherhood, and country.”