CONWAY — “How can you show me that you can play football and not have any contact?”
That was the message from Conway School Board Chairman Joe Lentini on Monday when the topic of fall athletics was brought up for Kennett High School and Kennett Middle School student-athletes amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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