CONWAY — This is a grave story — literally — and a good one for the gloomy mid-November days of autumn.
The Gibson/Woodbury Charitable Foundation this week announced a new, multi-year “Carroll County Reverence for the Departed Project” to repair broken gravestones in public cemeteries in Carroll County.
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