Tuesday's election was historic in both attendance and as a marker of change. The selectmen and school board were upended by non-status-quo candidates, and numerous articles reflected a town in transition. 

This year’s Conway town and school ballots are similar to past years, meaning that except for choosing elected officials, only a few warrant articles may demand your serious consideration.

Every 20 years or so, the town experiences a burst of economic growth. The last time was in the early to mid-2000s with the construction of the North-South Road, the big-box stores and a major expansion of Settlers Green.

As we face another season of budgets, town and school deliberative meetings, and ballot voting, we ask Conway voters to sign a petition that would, if approved by ballot in April, instruct selectmen to create a charter commission to examine ways to improve and/or change town government.

Remember the horror show two years ago, when the selectmen’s poorly presented, tone-deaf plan to allow unlimited STRs in residential neighborhoods was shot down at the polls? The one that led to a costly court battle that’s still going on? Well, Freddy Krueger’s back, this time with a poorly…

When considering paid parking in North Conway Village, we suggest selectmen heed Rule No. 1 in policymaking: Never inconvenience and irritate your constituents for a plan or policy whose sole purpose is to plump up the town coffers.

Democracy starts at home, and in New Hampshire that means stopping election deniers Republican congressional candidate Karoline Leavitt and senatorial candidate Don Bolduc.

Four Republicans are running for three seats in Tuesday’s primary in District 1, which under redistricting includes only Conway (three Democrats are also running unopposed on their ballot).

Perhaps most surprising in this year’s election cycle is how far to the right the Republican Party has shifted. We don’t mean the 40 Free Staters who wield outsized leverage as swing votes in the State House, but rank-and-file Republican voters. Your neighbors and ours.

Thanks to a procedural error, the Conway School Board has a chance to fix their ill-advised selection of Joe Lentini to fill the vacant seat for the next eight months until the next election in April.

For a moment, let’s put aside the debate about whether to close John H. Fuller or Pine Tree elementary schools. Let's  look at the big picture and consider how we, as one community, can best serve all of our students and best allocate resources.

Upon hearing of the Conway selectmen’s decision to allow e-scooters in town this summer, a 30-ish, experienced, mountain biker sent us a photo of road rash on her knees, which she suffered in a minor mishap with an e-scooter recently in Austin, Texas. Selectman Mary Carey Seavey called scoot…

Governments mostly raise money and fix problems, or at least try to. Attempts to do one without the other often don't work. The latest proposal to install parking meters in North Conway is firmly aligned on the side of raising money. As for fixing a problem: What problem?

There is nothing that symbolizes small-town life like pilgrimages to the landfill, and for many, those trips are the much-anticipated anchor to a week of household chores.

After the poorly attended town and school deliberative meetings in March, we called for a change in town government from SB 2 to a town council.