CONWAY — It’s been a week like no other in education here in the Mount Washington Valley.
“I have to tell you that it has been an absolutely unprecedented week or so not only for me in 30 years of education, but I think for our community and also for education,” Superintendent Kevin Richard shared with the SAU 9 School Board in its first ever remote meeting on Tuesday night.
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