Welcome to the City of Kokomo Indiana. Kokomo is known as the "City of Firsts" thanks to its rich automotive heritage and history of technological discoveries.
The Indiana Chamber of Commerce has honored the City of Kokomo with its 2011 Community of the Year Award.
The State Chamber honored Kokomo for maximizing its strengths and forming partnerships with private industry, higher education, and local economic development organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Kokomo Economic Development Alliance to develop innovative strategies to enhance the city’s image and facilitate economic growth.
This concert is free and will feature all of the youth programs. The Beginning and Intermediate Strings Classes will perform the pieces they have been working on for the semester and the Kokomo Symphony Youth Orchestra will perform music from a wide variety of time periods. The event will be held at Grace United MethodistChurchon Friday, May 18th at 7:30pm.
The Composer Classic is an annual run/walk fundraising event held at Kokomo's own Highland Parkwith help from Ken Long & Associates (KLA). KLA is a company which helps organize running events throughout Indiana. Our goal for the event is to provide a fun and social day in this family friendly fitness event while encouraging a competitive incentive to the running community.
Kokomo Mayor Greg Goodnight has announced that the Indiana Housing & Community Development Authority awarded the Family Service Association (FSA) of Howard County a $2.5 million grant for the development of Jackson Street Commons. The facility will be a new supportive housing complex for homeless veterans in Kokomo and central Indiana.
The Indiana Office of Tourism Development awarded the Kokomo-Howard County Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) with a $50,000 grant for improvements to the Wildcat Creek Soccer Complex. The funds will be used to build a facility that will combine a concession stand, bathrooms and storage for maintenance equipment.
In a ceremony at the Indiana State House, Lt. Governor Becky Skillman presented Kokomo’s Gary Rhum with the Economic Development & Growth through Entrepreneurship (EDGE) Award for the Rhum Academy of Music.
