CONWAY — The Pope Memorial Library in North Conway will be holding a grand opening for the library expansion on Sunday, Jun. 5, from 2 to 4 p.m.
The long-awaited event was originally planned for December of 2020, when much of the construction was done but due to the COVID-19 pandemic and emergency orders in place at that time, Library Director Andrea Masters decided to hold a soft reopening then and hold a bigger celebration later.
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