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WASHINGTON VALLEY’S DAILY NEWSPAPER 603-356-3456 FREE Several towns to hold fi reworks on July 2, 3 BY LLOYD JONES the COVID-19 pandemic. have designated Friday for their fi reworks displays THE CONWAY DAILY SUN And although Conway and Ossipee will stay true (though Fryeburg and Wolfeboro will hold their CONWAY — Parades and fi reworks are back after to tradition by celebrating Independence Day with parades Sunday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., respectively). many patriotic celebrations throughout the Mount both parades and fi reworks on the Fourth (Sunday), Meanwhile, Gorham is having its fi reworks (and Washington Valley were put on hold last year due to Tamworth, Jackson, Wolfeboro and Fryeburg, Maine, see FIREWORKS page 12 Peachy show at the Ham Local moms challenging SAU 9 mask requirement BY LLOYD JONES THE CONWAY DAILY SUN CONWAY — Nicole Nordlund of Madison and Wendy Richardson of Conway, both former Republican state Legislature candidates and mothers of school-age children, went before the Conway School Board on Monday with a message: Make masks go away when students return to classrooms in the school district this fall. They told the board they fear the schools are “using coercive tactics to force children into medical devices.” “I’m here to talk about mandatory masks for autumn,” Nordlund said. “Since there have been studies of the masks carrying serious illness and transmitting now to students, who would be responsible should a student become ill from one of these pathogens?” she asked, adding, “In my experience, the schools have usurped powers to make medical decisions for parents.” Ava Frechette as Spiker and Rosa Tepe as Sponge run from the giant peach during the opening night of Arts in Motion’s production of “James and Nordlund said each year at about the Giant Peach” at the Ham Arena at 87 West Main St. in Conway Village. The musical play returns today, with shows taking place Thursday, Friday this time, she signs a permission slip and Saturday at 7 p.m. Approximate run time is 80 minutes. To buy tickets, go to artsinmotiontheater.com. 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It is a duty of the Carroll County new cases: 1 Chance of rain: 33% Low: 50 living to do so for them.” Sunrise: 5:06 a.m. Carroll County new deaths: 0 Sunrise: 5:05 a.m. NASDAQ — Lois McMaster Bujold conviction Sunset: 8:30 p.m. New N.H. cases: 28 24.38 to 14,503.95 PENNSYLVANIA (NY New N.H. deaths: 1 Tonight Times) — Bill Cosby had his Saturday Total cases: 99,504 conviction for sexual assault High: 52 S&P overturned by a Pennsylvania Chance of rain: 90% High: 70 5.70 to 4,297.50 Total deaths: 1,372 appeals court on Wednesday Sunset: 8:31 p.m. Low: 51 and was freed from prison, a dramatic reversal in a case had represented the fi rst ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– NATION/WORLD –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– high-profi le sexual assault trial to unfold in the aftermath of the #MeToo movement. Cosby had served three years of a three- to 10-year prison sentence at a maxi- mum-security facility outside Rumsfeld, Defense secretary Philadelphia when the sev- en-member Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that Cosby, 83, had been denied a fair trial in 2018. The ruling upended the legal case during Iraq War, dead at 88 against Cosby brought by prosecutors in Pennsylvania that began with his arrest in TAOS, N.M. (NY Times) — Donald Rums- A staunch ally of former Vice President Hussein, the Iraqi leader, had been harboring 2015 on charges of drug- feld, the secretary of defense for Presidents Dick Cheney, who had been his protégé and weapons of mass destruction. ging and sexually assault- Gerald Ford and George W. Bush, who pre- friend for years, Rumsfeld was a combative “A conclusion by our enemies that the ing a woman at his home in the Philadelphia suburbs 11 sided over America’s Cold War strategies infi ghter who seemed to relish confl icts as United States lacks the will or the resolve to years earlier. in the 1970s and, in the new world of ter- he challenged Cabinet rivals, members of carry out our missions that demand sacrifi ce At the end of the trial in rorism decades later, the wars in Afghani- Congress and military orthodoxies. And he and demand patience is every bit as danger- April 2018, the jury con- stan and Iraq, died on Tuesday at his home was widely regarded in his second tour as ous as an imbalance of conventional military victed Cosby of three counts of aggravated indecent in Taos, N.M. He was 88. the most powerful defense secretary since power,” he said. “It may well be comforting assault against Andrea Con- The cause was multiple myeloma, said Robert McNamara during the Vietnam War. to some to consider graceful exits from the stand, to whom Cosby had Keith Urbahn, a spokesman for the family. Like his counterpart of long ago, Rumsfeld agonies and, indeed, the ugliness of combat. been a mentor and who was Encores are hardly rare in Washing- in Iraq waged a costly and divisive war that But the enemy thinks differently.” at the time a Temple Univer- sity employee. ton, but Rumsfeld had the distinction of ultimately destroyed his political life and out- In his 2011 memoir, “Known and Unknown,” In 2019, an interim court being the only defense chief to serve two lived his tenure by many years. But unlike Rumsfeld, more than four years out of offi ce, had upheld the trial verdict. nonconsecutive terms: 1975 to 1977 under McNamara, who offered mea culpas in a 2003 still expressed no regrets over the decision to But the Supreme Court, the President Ford, and 2001 to 2006 under documentary, “The Fog of War,” Rumsfeld invade Iraq, which had cost the United States state’s highest court, agreed to consider the case, and President Bush. 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Asked what harm there would be in giving Zhu- CONCORD — After hearing oral arguments “This appeal is about kovskyy a hearing, Chase said that especially during Tuesday, the state Supreme Court must now decide the process that led COVID, the court had an interest in balancing judi- whether the truck driver implicated in the “Fallen to the trial court’s cial economy and other interests. 7” collision is entitled to an evidentiary hearing on making that fi nding “And in this case, the defendant is so obviously whether he can be released on bail.