CONWAY — “This season already feels a whole lot more normal than last year,” Coach Bernie Livingston said after the Kennett High track team opened its season on the road in Wolfeboro on April 12.
Livingston, who is in his 39th year at the helm of the program, is delighted to see COVID restrictions have been lifted this spring. In 2021, he and other coaches started each practice with temperature checks of their athletes and then had each one fill out a COVID questionnaire, with everyone having to wear masks and social distance.
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