School board would like sending towns to help pay for spcecial resouce officer
CONWAY — The school board has decided to continue to use a police officer, called the school resource officer, at the schools, and would like the sending towns to help pay for the position, not just Conway, which has historically footed the bill alone. How that would be done, though, is not clear.
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