CONWAY — Happy summer! And imagine — for the first time since March 20, according to Brian Fitzgerald of the Mount Washington Observatory, a Saturday without rain!
The solstice arrived in our mountainous corner of the Northern Hemisphere at 10:42 p.m. on Friday, June 20, and after this wet spring, we’re all more than ready for it, right?
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