CONWAY — “We have a lot to do in a relatively short amount of time,” Superintendent Aimee Frechette said Tuesday regarding high school tuition contracts with the sending towns in SAU 9 and SAU 13.
The Conway School Board has been negotiating with the Albany, Bartlett, Eaton, Freedom, Jackson, Madison and Tamworth boards for more than a year on a new contract to send students to Kennett High School.
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