CONWAY — The Main Street Project in Conway Village has been pushed back a year, from 2019 to 2020, because of a funding issue.
But the Conway public works director says residents should take heart as the state has agreed to shoulder more of the project's cost and also plans to implement traffic flow improvements sooner than was previously announced.
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