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The City of Sumter’s Palmetto Tennis Center in Sumter, South Carolina is hosting their 15th annual USTA Women’s Pro Circuit Event. The City of Sumter is proud to announce that the Palmetto Pro Open will become, one of nine, $60K events in the US! Women ages 14-28 from more than 20 countries will...
Thursday, August 8 | 4:15PM All City offices and services will be back to our regular schedule Friday, August 9, 2024. Wednesday, August 7 | 11:00AM Out of an abundance of caution with the impending weather, offices of the City of Sumter will be closed on Thursday, August 8th, 2024. City of Sumter...
The USTA today announced that the Palmetto Tennis Center in Sumter, S.C., is one of 24 winners in the 37th annual USTA Facility Awards program, which recognizes excellence in the construction and/or renovation of tennis facilities throughout the country. The Palmetto Tennis Center will be honored at...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (Tuesday, Dec. 6) – A mobile Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) will make another three-day stop in Sumter County Dec. 8-10. The center will serve homeowners, renters and business owners who sustained damage or losses from Hurricane Matthew. The DRC will be located at: Cherryvale...
Sumter Urban Area Transportation Study (SUATS) is providing public notification on the Office of Public Transit (OPT) funding plan for SWRTA vehicle and facility needs assessment. Recently, Federal Transit Administration (FTA), pursuant to The MAP-21 legislation (Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21...
SUMTER, SC/USA â The City of Sumter today announced that it has received a TripAdvisor® Certificate of Excellence award. Now in its fifth year, the award celebrates excellence in hospitality and is given only to establishments that consistently achieve great traveler reviews on TripAdvisor...
For years, some Sumter residents lived among dilapidated buildings that had decayed at the hands of absentee landlords, heirs or financially strapped property owners. To alleviate the problem, city officials created a residential assistance program with the sole mission of fighting blight and...
The City of Sumter’s Downtown Development department, in partnership with the Main Street Society, is excited to announce an art installation for the Central Business District of downtown Sumter featuring original art by local artists on fiberglass butterflies. The butteries represent the...
SUMTER, S.C. (July 15, 2020) – The Sumter Fire Department has been designated as a Fire Safe SC Community by Fire Safe South Carolina for its active engagement in community risk reduction. The community designation recognizes local fire departments that have worked to complete goals to reduce fire...
Sumter, SC (January 12, 2022) -- Effective immediately, starting Friday, January 14, 2022, the City of Sumter sanitation crews will not be sorting recycling at the curb. Until further notice, please bag your recycling items and place them in the same container as your regular trash. This will allow...