CONWAY — Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg answered a wide range of questions from a packed house at the North Conway Community Center last Friday morning.
After addressing the crisis in Iran and giving a stump speech for nearly 20 minutes, the 37-year-old former South Bend, Ind., mayor spent the next 25 minutes or so addressing written questions from some of the approximately 500 audience members who had waited hours to see him.
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