CONWAY — Neither rain nor sleet nor snow … not even COVID-19 can keep Cranmore Mountain Meisters from happening — with proper safeguards, of course.
Every midweek for the past half-century, it’s been “World Cup Wednesday” at Mount Cranmore for the nation’s largest weekly citizens recreational ski race league. Since 2008, the results have been published in the Thursday edition of The Conway Daily Sun. Before that, they appeared in the now-defunct Mountain Ear.
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