CONWAY — The Mount Washington Valley lost a lion of a business and community leader last Saturday with the passing of 90-year-old real estate icon Dick Badger, founder of Badger Realty of North Conway, Jackson and Berlin.
His son Dr. Angus Badger confirmed his father had undergone heart surgery last Thursday at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine, and died two days later.
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