CONWAY — “It seems as though our voice doesn’t matter and there are lots of voices,” Mary Carey-Seavey said Wednesday two days after the Conway School Board voted against revisiting the names of two longtime elementary schools despite a petition with 565 names opposing them.
The school board voted 5-2 on Monday against changing the names back to Pine Tree and Conway Elementary, instead going with their new names, Lakeside Primary and Mountainside Intermediate.
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