CONWAY — Sisters Jordon Hewson and Laura Denis have been operating separate businesses in North Conway Village for several years now — Hewson owns Designed Gardens Flower Studio and Denis owns Frontside Coffee Roasters.
But the two women have had their eye on a vacant building at 14 Kearsarge Road behind Frontside, and in early October, they decided it was time to take over and utilize the space for a new botanically inspired gift shop, Poppy & Vale.
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