CONWAY — What are the community's daycare and preschool needs, and would the former John H. Fuller Elementary School be a good space to meet those needs? That’s a question the John Fuller School Action Ad Hoc Committee hopes to get answers to when it sends out a community survey later this month.
The committee, at its Oct. 22 meeting, learned that MaineHealth Memorial Hospital no longer appears to be interested in the 10.8-acre former school property in North Conway. Thus, sending the committee back to the drawing board.
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