Parks, Recreation & Cemeteries

THE CITY OF KEENE ACTIVE AND PASSIVE  RECREATION MANAGEMENT PLAN IS NOW AVAILABLE  FOR PUBLIC PERUSAL. CLICK HERE.
TRIPS! WHERE ARE WE GOING NOW?	Here's the Summer Flyer!! Looking for camps? Trips? Concerts? Fun for the whole family? click here
Register your 6 - 11 year olds for the KPRD Playground Program now - Wheelock Camp is full, but there is still space at Fuller Park at the Recreation Center.  Children who attend this camp will be bussed to Robin Hood in the afternoon to swim.   Click here to register online.
	Wait for the City Express in comfort -- the new shelter at the Recreation Center provides shade and protection on rainy days.
Steve Krause Memorial Tennis Tournament The event is to honor the memory of Steve Krause. It will take place at the Keene City courts and the Keene Country Club on June 16th with a rain date on June 17th. More information and registration form here	Message to all baseball and softball leagues and teams:  Practices should not be held at the JD fields.  The fields are not ready for use just yet and will need one more season before they are ready.  Thanks for your cooperation!

 Have you tried the new feature on the Parks, Recreation and Cemeteries section of the City’s website?   Use the  Cemetery Lookup to search for your relatives who may be buried in Keene.   Existing interment records have been formatted into a searchable database.   Records date back to the late 1700’s and include entries from the nine municipal cemeteries in Keene that the department is responsible to maintain.
            Please be aware that database entries have been taken from both handwritten and typed lot and interment cards, and may include either factual or typographical errors.  They also may be incomplete, and are frequently updated.   Should you notice an error, please contact the department at 603-357-9829 and we will research your concern.

          Also available on the cemetery section of the website are maps (some better than others) of most of the nine cemeteries (maps here ).  As you look for your ancestors, these will help orient you in each cemetery.  We hope this makes your genealogic research easier.  Office staff members are available weekdays from 9 am to 4 pm to answer questions or you may send an email by using this link.

Department Overview
Mission:
The Keene Parks, Recreation and Cemeteries Department seeks to provide the citizens of Keene with municipal facilities that are safe, clean and efficiently operating. The Department also seeks to provide a set of leisure activities and park facilities that are current and varied, and respond to the wants of the general public. The Department additionally strives to maintain municipal burial grounds and the associated services at a continued high level. 

The Parks, Recreation and Cemeteries Department consists of three service divisions: Recreation Programming, Park Maintenance and Cemeteries Management.

The Recreation Programming involves scheduling of events and programs at both the Recreation Center and in the parks that dot Keene’s landscape. Community programs such as youth basketball, summer playground camps and a safe indoor walking program, are directly operated by the Program Division, while others including Keene Knights Football, Keene Cal Ripkin Youth Baseball, Allyson Barden Girls Youth Softball and adult softball leagues are conducted by volunteer groups with the Program Supervisor serving as a liaison. Information about current programs and a list of contact people is available through the main office of Parks, Recreation and Cemeteries Department.

The Parks and Cemeteries’ maintenance division crews are kept busy preparing ballfields in summer and ice skating areas in winter, keeping cemeteries groomed and handling a myriad of other tasks adding to the beauty and usefulness of Keene’s open spaces. Additionally, the Supervisor oversees the sale of cemetery lots and burial arrangements year ‘round. Arrangements for lot sales may be made at the Parks, Recreation and Cemeteries Department's main office. All cemetery records are retained there also and the staff will help with genealogical research.

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