CONWAY — Softball fans and outdoor enthusiasts will have no excuses to be late to games when they visit the playing fields at Kennett High School in July. The Upper Saco Valley Land Trust hopes to complete a bridge from the bus parking lot to the athletic fields, which eliminates roughly a quarter-mile walk for spectators.
“It’s great news,” Joe Mosca of the Conway School Board said at the board's May 24 meeting.
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