CONWAY — Construction of the long-awaited Main Street Project could begin on Election Day. So said the head of Department of Public Works on Tuesday.
This situation may remind some of 2016 presidential election when DOT bridge work snarled traffic in Conway Village on the morning of Election Day.
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