Bill Danielson, Irmo Town Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem, gave a presentation to the council on November 29 outlining a proposed main street in Irmo. The area designates Moseley Street, an unpaved road that is adjacent to the Community Park of Irmo and includes properties stretching all the way toContinue Reading
Editor’s Note: This is the text of Irmo Mayor Bary Walker’s State of the Town Address Back in December 2020, 10 months into the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic, I delivered my inaugural State of the town address. Irmo citizens were locked down, scared to interact with each other, concerned about meetingContinue Reading
The first Friday of December marks National Arbor Day and the Town of Irmo celebrated by planting a white oak tree in the Community Park of Irmo. Irmo is a part of Tree City USA which means Irmo plants a lot of trees and has created an urban forest aroundContinue Reading
The Town of Irmo will hold it’s annual tree lighting ceremony on Tuesday, December 6 at 6 pm in the Irmo Town Park located at 7330 Carlisle Street. There will be free food, drinks and face painting and entertainment provided by Irmo’s finest elementary schools. Town Council, Town Hall staff,Continue Reading
Irmo’s Construction Board of Adjustments and Appeals (CBAA) The CBAA is an advisory board for the Town of Irmo that decides on orders, decisions, or determinations made by the building official relative to the application and interpretation of the South Carolina Building Codes Council mandatory codes and/or permissible codes (SCBCC).Continue Reading
Irmo Police Department will pay cash for guns on Saturday, December 10, 2022, during a Gun Buyback event. This event is intended to keep weapons off the streets of Irmo and out of the hands of criminals. IPD will pay $125 per gun with a limit of 5 per car.Continue Reading
By Al Dozier Irmo received positive notes on the town’s finances at the November 15 council meeting in a presentation on the annual audit report for the 2021-2022 Fiscal Year. The town had revenues totaling $12.8 million and expenses of $9.4 million, according to the report from Hightower & HightowerContinue Reading
The Okra Strut Commission, responsible each year for the Okra Strut Festival, is planning on using an anticipated surplus of funds from last year’s festival to pay for a gun buyback event on Saturday, December 10. The host is the Universal Outreach Church and the event is designed to removeContinue Reading
By Al Dozier On November 1 the Irmo Town Council discussed options on the use of $2.5 million in American Rescue Plan ACT (ARPA) funds that are now available to the town. More improvements at the Community Park of Irmo were at the top of the list. They included: increasingContinue Reading
A failed zoning change for nine acres of land at Dreher Shoals Rd. (Hwy 6) and Farming Creek Road could spell trouble for the Town of Irmo in the form of a lawsuit. The 30-acre tract was to be rezoned from Fringe Agricultural to Office Commercial which would allow aContinue Reading
Sharon Funderburk is the Artist for the month of November for the town of Irmo. Funderburk is a certified Bob Ross instructor. Funderburk says, “I use many materials in my work and recently retired from the hospital. I went back to school; for art and always had a dual resume.Continue Reading