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SUMTER, SC (Oct. 4, 2015) – As of Sunday morning, flooding has become pervasive on roads throughout Sumter County, and accessibility to various areas in the county has become difficult for emergency responders. Because of this, we strongly urge all Sumter County residents remain off all local roads...
All parks in the City of Sumter are officially closed and will remain closed until the Flash Flood Watch and hazardous weather outlook for the area has passed. According to the National Weather Service forecast, rainfall is expected to increase during the weekend as tropical moisture from hurricane...
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 Fire Department struggled to recruit new firefighters. During the past two decades, the city recruited only half of the number of firefighters it had been able to previously. Extensive training requirements made the job a tough sell to college-bound kids, and the department...
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...
Sumter officials initiated two unique projects tied together by a common theme: compassionate outreach to the community’s neediest residents. Project CheckMate commits one police officer to regularly visit the homes of the elderly and disadvantaged adults, while Random Acts of Kindness provides the...
SUMTER, SC (Nov. 20, 2014) – An early debut of temperatures into the 20s and teens this week serves as a timely reminder for residents to protect themselves and others from cold weather’s potentially harmful effects. Some things to keep in mind when temperatures dip to freezing, 32 degrees, or below...
SUMTER, S.C. – The City of Sumter and its partner, the Santee-Lynches Regional Development Corporation have been awarded $3.4 Million by the South Carolina State Housing Authority under its Neighborhood Initiative Program (NIP). The award will facilitate the purchase and demolition of approximately...
SUMTER, S.C. – Heritage Blues Orchestra, a Grammy-nominated group that mingles several genres of music, will swing into the Sumter Opera House on Saturday (April 18) to close out the 2014-2015 concert series, ending the first such yearlong series for the storied venue in nearly 25 years. This will...
SUMTER, S.C. – The trumpet craftsman who spent three decades as the band leader for “The Tonight Show” under the late Johnny Carson will open the Sumter Opera House 2015-2016 season, kicking off the second performance season in decades at the downtown historic venue in September. Doc Severinsen, who...