CONWAY — Nicole Nordlund of Madison and Wendy Richardson of Conway, both former Republican state Legislature candidates and mothers of school-age children, went before the Conway School Board on Monday with a message: Make masks go away when students return to classrooms in the school district this fall.
They told the board they fear the schools are "using coercive tactics to force children into medical devices.”
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