Jingle With The Arts is here.

There will be three shows at Patriot Hall – 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14, 2018 and 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018.

Come enjoy the Sumter Civic Dance Company and the Sumter High School Show Choir as they bring singing and dancing to Patriot Hall for this Christmas extravaganza.

Tickets are $12 and you can purchase online here: http://www.freedschool.com/jingle-with-the-arts.html or at the Freed School of Performing Arts at 527 North Guignard Drive

You can also purchase tickets at the box office at Patriot Hall, 135 Haynsworth Street

*See PDF for information and scheduling.

Sumter County Council Tuesday evening approved first reading of a request to rezone property on Loring Mill Road and also heard about a Community Development Block Grant recently awarded to the county.

City-County Planning Director George McGregor told council members during the last council meeting of 2018 about a request to rezone a 1.48 acre parcel and a .74 acre parcel at 2110 and 2115 Loring Mill Road from Agricultural Conservation (AC) to Light-Industrial Warehouse (LI-W).

*See PDF for information and scheduling.

*See PDF for information and scheduling.

So far, so good.

City-County Planning Director George McGregor said on Friday that the kick-off meeting for the Sumter 2040 Comprehensive Plan went very well.

“We got tons of feedback,” he said. “I’m going through a lot of notes.”

The official kick-off forum for the 2040 Comp Plan saw about 25 people in attendance, he said. The meeting was held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Dec. 6 at Central Carolina Technical College’s Health Sciences Building.

The “conversational format” worked really well, he said, and stoked commentary about neighborhoods, a Community Survey Report, various design elements and more.

The survey was available online from June to September 2018 and was also available at City and County Government facilities as well as several other public locations around Sumter County.

“Broad in subject matter, the survey aimed to elicit responses related to quality of life issues, land use matters, and development trends and patterns. The candid responses will be combined with other background materials collected during the planning process to shape goals and policies that will guide all new development and redevelopment in the community,” states a brief survey report.

McGregor said more community meetings are in the works and will be scheduled once the holidays are over.

“We will continue to meet with individual neighborhood associations and stakeholders in our community,” he said.

Survey results are available here: https://www.sumter2040.com/

*See PDF for information and scheduling.

*See PDF for information and scheduling.

*See PDF for information and scheduling.

The Sumter City-County Planning Department, in accordance with National Flood Insurance Program regulation 65.7(b)(1), hereby gives notice of the City of Sumter and Sumter County’s intent to revise the flood hazard information, generally located between Second Mill Pond Dam and the Pocotaligo River. Specifically, the flood hazard information shall be revised along Green Swamp from a point approximately 1200 feet upstream of the Pocotaligo River to a point approximately 150 feet upstream of Second Mill Pond Dam.

As a result of the revision, the floodway shall widen, the 1% annual chance water-surface elevations shall increase, and the 1% annual chance floodplain shall widen within the area of revision.

Maps and detailed analysis of the revision can be reviewed at the Sumter City-County Planning Department Office at 12 W. Liberty Street, Suite C, Sumter, SC. Interested persons may call Helen Roodman at (803)-774-1636 for additional information.

City-County Floodplain Information here

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Due to ongoing renovations at the Sumter County Courthouse, 141 N. Main St., the entrances at the front and back are temporarily unavailable. If you need to utilize any offices in the Courthouse, please use the entrance on the right side of the building that faces Law Range. There are handicap accessible entrances on either side of these steps on the right side of the Courthouse, facing Law Range.

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Job Readiness Training is available at the South Sumter Resource Center at 337 Manning Avenue. This program is for 14 to 17-year-old high school students who want to earn while they learn. This paid training program provides career exposure -- there's only 20 slots available. Call 803-436-2276 or 803-774-3899

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