CONWAY — Summer officially ended Thursday morning for students in MSAD 72, while children in SAU 9 and SAU 13 get to wait until the day after Labor Day to head back to classrooms for the 2017-18 school year.
Schools in MSAD 72 — Molly Ockett Middle School, Brownfield-Denmark Elementary School and New Suncook Elementary in Lovell — started Thursday.
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