CONWAY — The MWV Cooperative District Planning Board is set to hold its first meeting Thursday at 4 p.m. in the Professional Development Center at Kennett Middle School.
The meeting comes almost 20 years to the day from when the first eight-town cooperative planning board voted to dissolve following an unsuccessful attempt to form its own school district.
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