CONWAY — Happy Memorial Day weekend, the traditional start to summer, which seems odd this year, because with all this rain and cold weather, it seems like we haven’t even had a real spring yet.
The recent snowfall on Mount Washington made national and state news, with ABC-TV and WMUR-TV 9 both reporting about the white stuff that coated the summit Thursday and Friday.
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