CONWAY — “It's not a traditional graduation, but I think it's going to be a spectacular one, for sure,” said Kennett High Principal Kevin Carpenter Monday night as he announced that graduation is still on for June 13.
But it won’t be on the school’s campus at the top of Eagles Way. Instead, the Eagles will graduate from the summit of Mount Cranmore.
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