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Resident urges Winnsboro to repair streets, clear overgrown lots and add fence at Martin Luther King Park

5919490 · September 12, 2025
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A longtime resident described potholes, overgrown historic markers and a collapsing house on Pine Street, and urged the city to address the problems; she also requested a fence at Martin Luther King Park to prevent children from entering a ravine.

Daisy Jones Lemons, a Winnsboro resident, told the city council she was ‘‘heartbroken’’ at the condition of her childhood neighborhood and asked officials to address potholes, overgrown lots and a dilapidated house on Pine Street.

Lemons, who gave her address as 400 North Beach Street, Apartment 113, said she returned to Winnsboro after living elsewhere and found the Dunbar historical marker and surrounding area overgrown with weeds. “I was asked, where is Dunbar? I mean, I didn't hear about it.…

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