CONWAY — Selectmen on Tuesday offered a lukewarm recommendation of a petitioned warrant article calling for sports betting in Conway and didn’t endorse another one for keno. Public hearings on both articles will be held March 15 as part of the selectmen’s regular meeting starting at 4 p.m. at Town Hall.
The articles are being proposed as part of a plan to have limited charitable gaming going in at a sports bar that would open in the shopping plaza at 234 White Mountain Highway that is home to a state liquor store at one end and a state-regulated cannabis dispensary at the other.
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