CONWAY — By a landslide vote, Black Bear Village Cooperative Inc. members voted April 24 to buy their Lamplighter Mobile Home Park for $10,250,000 from the Hynes Group with the support of a $500,000 Community Development Block Grant.
“We are ecstatic,” said Black Bear Village Cooperative Vice President Tom Moughan following the resounding 108-3 vote, which took place April 24 after a little over an hour of presentations and discussion in the Kennett High cafeteria.
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