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Residents urge access for youth program at Shaw–Sumter site and seek action on Monroe Street blight

Sumter County Council · October 29, 2025
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During public comment, Brenda C. Williams of Family Unit Inc. said multiple requests to tour the Shaw–Sumter Welcome Center and Shaw–Sumter Farms for her nonprofit Science Whiz Kids were rejected and asked the council to issue an invitation. Another resident, identified as Lorenzo Rivers, asked the council for information about long-vacant and

Two residents used the meeting’s public-comment period to press the council on distinct local concerns: access to county-operated agricultural and welcome facilities for an educational nonprofit, and long-term vacant properties on Monroe Street.

Brenda C. Williams, who identified herself as president of Family Unit Incorporated, a 501(c)(3) that runs the Science Whiz…

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