CONWAY — With budget season ready to ramp up in January, members of the Conway Municipal Budget Committee received a little holiday reading from the Conway School District on Dec. 12. School Superintendent Kevin Richard and his staff replied to the 12 questions budgeteers submitted in November, which members say will help them weave their way through another budget cycle.
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