CONWAY — New Hampshire’s outdoor community is coming together to educate visitors through a new membership-based non-profit.
On Wednesday, state leaders helped officially launch the Granite Outdoor Alliance — graniteoutdooralliance.org — which looks to leverage the outdoor industry, which employs about 79,000.
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