CONWAY — At least two online petitions calling for more extensive punishment of the Kennett High School football players who were involved in a duck killing incident last month have gathered well over 1,000 signatures.
A Conway Daily Sun story last week reported that three to six Eagles would be suspended from several football games as punishment for the attack on the waterfowl at a football camp that took place in August at Camp Winaukee in Moultonborough.
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