CONWAY — Has the John Fuller ad hoc committee run its course? Two of the three members of the Conway School Board who sit on the committee believe it has and sought to dissolve it on Oct. 26. Other members weren’t quite so certain.
The school board voted in April of 2026 to shutter John H. Fuller Elementary in North Conway due to falling enrollment. Even though it is closed, the cost of maintaining the building is estimated at around $120,000 a year.
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