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

It's beginning to look like Christmas!🌲
11/17/2025

It's beginning to look like Christmas!🌲

😀🐾💙 Heidi & Quinton!
11/17/2025

😀🐾💙 Heidi & Quinton!

As part of our 150th anniversary celebration, Savings Bank of Walpole recently completed our 81st good deed, donating baskets filled with toys and supplies to Monadnock Kitty Rescue & Adoption.

These donations help make life a little brighter for the cats in their care while they wait for loving homes.

At SBW, we’re proud to partner with local organizations that make our community (and every life in it) feel a little more cared for.

11/14/2025
11/13/2025

Thank you to the Monadnock Shopper News and Stark Level Solutions for featuring Love Thy Neighbor Ministries in November's Superhero Spotlight! We are so honored to be selected. Kudos to you for bringing attention to individuals and groups dedicated to making a positive difference in our community.

Friday...Friday...Friday...The first person to answer this week's mystery photo question correctly by calling 603-352-52...
11/12/2025

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. – The Keene High School band was prepared to play on Main Street at what event?
Good Luck Everyone!

Meet Hershey Bar, a darling bun with a name as sweet as her personality! Hershey Bar arrived as part of a large group of...
11/10/2025

Meet Hershey Bar, a darling bun with a name as sweet as her personality! Hershey Bar arrived as part of a large group of 18 rabbits brought to ARL, and thanks to the teamwork of several shelters, she’s now at MHS hoping to find her forever home. While we don’t have details about her past, she has shown herself to be a gentle and curious girl who’s slowly learning that people can be kind and loving. With a patient hand, a calm home, and lots of love, this lovely rabbit will blossom into a wonderful companion. If you’re looking for a little sweetness to brighten your days, Hershey Bar might just be your perfect match. Come meet Hershey Bar and our other wonderful animals during open hours at Monadnock Humane Society.

11/10/2025

Next up at the Redfern…

Theatre:
Nov. 19-22, 7:30pm + Nov. 22, 2pm-
The Bridges of Madison County

Music:
Nov. 12, 7pm- *Faculty Series*
Jose Lezcano, guitar & Virginia Eskin, piano

Nov. 19, 7pm- *Faculty Series*
Kris Danielsen, trombone & Seelan Manickam, trumpet

Nov. 21, 7pm- Brass & Video Game Ensembles

🎟️ link in bio

Always free for KSC students/faculty/staff with Owl ID

Only $15- General Public
$10- Seniors/Youth/Non KSC Student

Looking for great pizza? Remember to use today's coupon and remember to take advantage of tomorrow's senior discount!🍕
11/10/2025

Looking for great pizza? Remember to use today's coupon and remember to take advantage of tomorrow's senior discount!🍕

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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.”