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Residents press commissioners for lights, sidewalks and repairs at Friendship Park and nearby streets
Summary
Multiple residents urged Gadsden County commissioners to finish promised streetlights and sidewalks, replace temporary speed bumps, repair Friendship Park restrooms and address a boarded, uninhabitable house cited as a code-enforcement concern.
During the public-comment period at a Gadsden County Board of County Commissioners meeting, several residents from the Friendship neighborhood and surrounding areas pressed the commission for repairs and safety improvements.
Pastor Willie Gaines said sidewalks the county installed on one street helped homeowners but that promised solar streetlights were never installed. "We were also promised street lights...that never happened," he said, and asked the board to support a countywide trash roundup.
Jessica Rivas, a Friendship neighborhood…
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