BARTLETT — With its annual school district meeting set for Tuesday, Bartlett will become the first town in the Mount Washington Valley to vote on a new five-year tuition contract with Conway to send its ninth-through-12th graders to Kennett High.
At the meeting, to be held in the Josiah Bartlett Elementary School gymnasium at 6:30 p.m., voters will be faced with a record 12 articles, including four submitted by citizen petitions.
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