CONWAY — So, how was your Fourth?
Things were going great until Conway’s delayed and then much-reduced fireworks display Thursday night, much to the letdown of the thousands gathered in Schouler Park for all of the food and music that followed the stupendous Fourth of July parade in Conway Village earlier in the day.
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