CONWAY — Conway Elementary School is one of five schools in New Hampshire and five in Vermont to receive a Children’s Literacy Foundation $25,000 Year of the Book grant for the 2020-21 school year.
“It’s definitely exciting for us,” Conway Elementary Principal Jason Robert said last Tuesday, just hours after the recipients were announced.
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