CONWAY — Welcome to the end of the first week of ’22. I don’t know about you, but the first week of a new year of paying bills is always a task — remembering to write in the new year on your checks instead of ‘21.
But then, many of you probably now just pay your bills online or with automatic withdrawals. One of my New Year’s resolutions is to switch over to that time-saving way of taking care of business.
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