CONWAY — “It was the day so many of us had been waiting for,” said Superintendent Kevin Richard after 360 local educators received their first round of the COVID-19 vaccine at Kennett High School on Saturday.
Personnel from MSAD 72 got their first shots of vaccine March 19.
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