CONWAY — North Conway’s Schouler Park has played host to large crowds in the past, but town officials believe the one that filled the park on the Fourth may have been the largest yet in the village.
Thousands were in the park or its vicinity Thursday night, and despite it being one of the hottest Fourths — the first 90-degree day of 2019 in the Mount Washington Valley — things went off without a hitch.
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