CONWAY — Jen Stilwell, 39, of Center Conway has spent the past few months settling into her post as executive director of the Mount Washington Valley Housing Coalition.
Raised in Bath, Maine, but a resident of the valley since 2006, both as a young married woman and later a single parent of three children, she is very familiar with the local housing crunch.
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