CONWAY — Kearsage Lighting Precinct will discuss short-term rentals at its annual meeting today, and the Freedom Planning Board also has STRs on its agenda later this week.
Meanwhile, a short-term rental owner being taken to court by Conway has objected to the town’s insistence that a judge should rope hundreds of short-term rental owners into the case.
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