CONWAY — A Kennett High graduate and the Little Angels of Bartlett service dog she is fostering are attending medical school together.
Lara Murnik, 24, of Bartlett, a 2014 graduate of Kennett, is in her first year at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine in Burlington, Vt.
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