The Weekly with a Heart •
66th Year of Community Service, serving Keene, Peterborough, and the Mo
10/13/2025
Foley absolutely adores his favorite people and is happiest when he's right by your side. He's a loyal, affectionate companion who's always ready for snuggles and quality time.
When it comes to meeting other dogs, Foley is full of enthusiasm. He tends to rush in with excited sniffs, licks, and plenty of vocal greetings-which can be a bit much for some dogs. His intentions are friendly, just a little... extra!
Due to his strong prey drive, Foley will need a home without cats or small animals. But with people, he's all in-loving, playful, and full of personality. If you're looking for a devoted, larger-than-life best friend, come meet Foley. He's waiting to steal your heart!
10/13/2025
10/13/2025
10/13/2025
Yum..it's Pizza Monday!🍕🍕
Happy Monday everyone! Grab this weeks copy of Monadnock Shopper News and find our latest coupon to get up to TWO 14 inch cheese pizzas for only $8 each!! 🍕
10/10/2025
Welcome to Aloha for a class, an event, a workshop, a special class, or just to be in the vibe of spirit.
10/09/2025
This Saturday, October 11th 9-2
10/08/2025
Nettle, Ivy, Clover, Thistle, Sprig, Moss
Meet our six sweet little hamsters, each ready to scurry their way into a loving forever home! These cuties were part of a surprise litter of fifteen, and after most found homes, the last six came to us. They spent their first 8–9 weeks being gently handled in their original home, which has made them wonderfully handleable—just a soft scoop is all they need! They’ve even had experience with children and did well, showing just how adaptable and friendly they can be. Each one has their own quirks and personality, but all share a curious and kind nature, eager to explore the world around them. Like all hamsters, they’ll thrive with deep bedding for burrowing, a proper wheel for exercise, and plenty of enrichment to keep their busy minds happy. These little adventurers have so much life ahead of them—could one be the perfect new friend for you?
The Adoption Center is located at 101 West Swanzey Road just outside of Keene. Open hours are Thursday - Sunday 11 am to 3 pm. Other adoptable pets can be viewed at www.monadnockhumanesociety.org.
10/08/2025
Mark your calendars!!!
Get ready for our fall TRUCKLOAD SALE! 🚚 Deep discounts on cases of our most popular items throughout the Co-op, including produce, meat & seafood, bulk items, pantry staples, snacks, wellness items, wine and more!
📦 View our Order form for same day orders on Oct 17&18: monadnockfood.coop/sales/truckloadsale
10/08/2025
Friday...Friday...Friday...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. – This ferry connected what two towns?
Good Luck Everyone!
10/06/2025
Don't forget your pizza!🍕🍕 Today's coupon from last week's edition of the paper..
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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.”
While the growth of the paper you’re reading certainly serves as a testament to publishing a quality product that makes local residents happy by providing good news that is useful and necessary, Shakour also points out that the rise of The Monadnock Shopper News is also reflective of the rise of free community papers nationwide. As a member of several regional and national newspaper associations, he can easily quote statistics to prove the growth and value of the industry as a whole, pointing out that there are now more audited free papers in the US than there are audited paid papers, which flies in the face of the conventional wisdom that predicts doom and gloom for print media everywhere.
So thank you, loyal readers, advertisers, and community organizers for supporting the first 60 years of The Keene Shopper, The Keene Shopper News, and now The Monadnock Shopper News. Thank you to the talented, local writers who submit their columns each month as a valuable resource to residents who love to read about things like the economy, nature, alternative medicine, family, and whatever happens to be timely and interesting. Thank you to those advertisers who’ve supported this paper over years, to allow us to pay the bills to bring The Monadnock Shopper News to its readers. Thank you to the readers who send us their press releases, poems, letters to the editor, and notes to let us know we’re doing a good job. Thank you to the Monadnock Region as a whole, for being the educated, demanding, supportive area that allows a paper like ours to enjoy 60 years of being “The Weekly With A Heart.”
