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Congratulations to the 2022 Mayor’s Christmas Card Contest Winners: Miss Olivia Smith, an 8 th-grader at Hillcrest Middle School, and Miss Jalena Tillman, a 4 th-grader at Manchester Elementary School These top two winners have their artwork featured on the 2022 City of Sumter Christmas Card, which...
SUMTER, SC (October 28, 2022) - The Sumter County Veteran’s Association invites the community to the annual Sumter Veterans Day event on Friday, November 11, 2022 in Downtown Sumter. The day begins with a parade at 10 a.m., followed by an official ceremony at 11 a.m. on the front lawn of the...
On Nov. 8, 2022, Sumter County voters will decide on this referendum: Must a special One Percent Sales And Use Tax be imposed in Sumter County (the “County”) for not more than seven (7) years, to begin when the current Capital Projects Sales Tax ends on or before April 30, 2023, to raise the amounts...
The City of Sumter is an Entitlement Community. This Entitlement status affords the City the opportunity of receiving Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds on an annual basis. The purpose of the funds is to improve the neighborhoods and make life more livable for residents; especially those...
Tropical Storm Ian Announcements (newest updates listed first, by date and time): Friday, September 30, 2022, 5:30PM Staff continues to work throughout the city to clear streets of down trees and other debris. As the storm passes, please use extreme caution, more outages, trees and powerlines down...
The City of Sumter is conducting a smoke test of its sanitary sewer system in the following Subdivisions, starting today, September 20, 2022: Stafford Meadows Patriot Parkway Loringwood Landmark Point A “SMOKE TEST” survey will assist our inspection crews in locating breaks and defects in our sewer...
Mayor Merchant, along with City Litter Officer and Clemson Extension met with Sumter School District today to deliver the first of 30 STEM Litter Lesson Kits to help teach our youth about the effects of litter. Kits will be delivered to all K-5 Schools in Sumter, including private schools over the...
The City of Sumter's Summer Youth Employment Program has successfully served the Sumter community since 1994, reaching well over 2,000 families in its lifetime. Utilizing Rescue Act and Community Development Block Grant Funding, we have been able to add a training component alongside the employment...
The City of Sumter hosted Valerie Linley from Destined to Succeed Mobile Basketball Camp in Sumter this summer at the North HOPE Center. This camp is an annual event and free to all City youth, grades 3-12 each summer. This summer we hosted over 60 youth as part of the week-long program. The camp...
To help improve the conditions of our sidewalks, the City of Sumter is partnering with StreetScan, a Massachusetts-based company that has assessed over 100 communities across North America. Crews will be out in the city starting this week and assessing through August 5. StreetScan employs scooter...