CONWAY — On a 45-centah of a day out of a top weather rating of 50 cents, former longtime North Conway cooperative weather observer Briggs Bunker was honored by the local weather community on Friday.
Briggs, 91, and wife, Bobbi, 84, were feted by the Mount Washington Observatory with a brief ceremony at their home on Pine Street in North Conway Village.
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