CONWAY — At Tuesday’s selectmen’s meeting, the selectmen and town staff thanked retiring Mark Hounsell for his close to 50 years of public service.
There is hardly an elected position in town that Hounsell hasn’t held, plus he has also been a state senator and a county commissioner.
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