CONWAY — It's the new year, which means it's a new season for local ski and snowboard racers — with Cranmore Mountain Meisters back for its 47th year.
First run as Local Yokel in 1972, and known as Cranmore Mountain Meisters since the mid-1980s, the valley’s largest weekly citizens’ recreational racing series returns to Cranmore in North Conway for Week 1 on Jan. 9.
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