CONWAY — Team spirit and community-mindedness is what you get when you bring the Mountain Mamas of Cranmore Mountain Meisters fame together, not just during the ski-racing season at Cranmore but throughout the year, as the team members do fundraising for various causes and serve as volunteers for many community events.
The Mamas have been part of Mountain Meisters since the early 1980s, when Betty Newton and others formed the all-female squad when Meisters was known as the Local Yokel Race League.
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