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Paris residents pressing council for help maintaining Greenwood Baptist Cemetery
Summary
At the public forum, Vanessa Preston described volunteer efforts to clear and document graves at Greenwood Baptist Cemetery and asked the city for assistance; council later discussed arranging a site tour.
Vanessa Preston told the Paris City Council during public comment that she and two volunteers have spent more than a year clearing and documenting graves at Greenwood Baptist Cemetery and asked the city for help with the site.
“My name is Vanessa Preston. I am here regarding the Greenwood Baptist Cemetery... We have been working every extra hour we have in that cemetery. We live, eat, and breathe Greenwood Baptist Cemetery, the 3 of us,” Preston said during the Feb. 24 meeting. She said the cemetery is roughly “7 and a half acres” of thick woods, and volunteers found…
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