CONWAY — Just one candidate, former board chair Ryan Wallace, has offered to fill a nine-month vacancy on the Conway School Board.
The board is expected to discuss the vacancy created by Michaela Clement, who stepped down June 23 because she is moving out of the school district to Fryeburg, Maine.
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