CONWAY — It’s been nine months since the Conway School Board voted to change the names of two elementary schools, but the issue is still an emotional one.
A petitioned warrant article to change Lakeside Primary School and Mountainside Intermediate School back to a version of their original names — Pine Tree Elementary and Conway Elementary — will go before the voters April 8.
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