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Spirit and light! Unitarian Universalist
The North Conway fireworks display was over an hour delayed, and many people were gone or on theIr way out when the show finally began. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
But fireworks are a dud for some whose patience fizzled during 65-minute delay
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CONWAY — A picture-perfect Fourth of July ended a little later than many wanted on Monday when the fi reworks display for the town's annual Fourth of July Celebration took fl ight 65 minutes later than planned. Many people from
the crowd of over 10,000 people had long since departed North Conway's Schouler Park when the fi rst fi rework took to the sky at 10:45 p.m. Technical delays are being cited for the reason the Londonderry-based RS Fireworks planned choreographed show didn't happen at the originally scheduled 9:40 p.m. send off.
"There were two things that we couldn't control," John Eastman, recreation director for the Town of Conway, who was working his 20th consecutive town celebration, said Tuesday. "That's the technical side of fi reworks and the weather." see FIREWORKS page 8
Federal funds allow school district to retain 14 employees BY LLOYD JONES THE CONWAY DAILY SUN
CONWAY — The Conway School Board has struggled with the 2011-12 budget for
over 14 months now and has still yet to put one in place. Yet, last week, the board fi nally got some good news. It learned the district will receive federal funding and grants that will allows it retain 14 people
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