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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...
All students, parents, teachers, counselors and mentors, you are invited to attend a special leadership session with us tomorrow at Sumter High School, located at 2580 McCrays Mill Road. All sessions are FREE for attendees. Featuring speaker Mark Brown (@MarkBrownSpeaks) -- an expert in helping...
The new Lazy River at the City of Sumter Aquatics Center is now open! A dedication ceremony was held earlier this month, check out of video from the event. Our Aquatics Center is located at 1115 S. Lafayette Dr. Visit www.sumterswim.com for more info on our Aquatics Center.
The Sumter Iris Festival Commission is so excited to celebrate its 80 th festival May 27 – 29, 2022 at Swan Lake Iris Gardens. After being interrupted for two years, we are back and better than ever! With this being the 80 th festival, we are celebrating all things Eighties, so read on! This event...