CONWAY — Never has a wave meant so much.
Staffers from Conway Elementary School, John H. Fuller Elementary and Pine Tree School caravanned along local bus routes last Friday to wave to their students, who have been doing remote learning at home for more than three weeks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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