CONWAY — “Conway shouldn’t be begging and groveling for towns to come to school here,” Conway School Board member Randy Davison said at the March 9 meeting, voicing his frustration with high school tuition contracts with SAU 13 town Freedom, Madison and Tamworth.
Davison’s colleague Matt Stearns was quick to point out that those remarks do not reflect the sentiments of the rest of the board, but the longest-serving member of the Conway board said he doesn’t want to “sugarcoat” negotiations anymore.
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