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Federal government, banks closed on Juneteenth. President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act on June 17, 2021, establishing Juneteenth as a federal holiday.
Gannett. Alexia Aston, The Oklahoman. June 14, 2024 at 12:10 PM. Juneteenth is a holiday celebrated on June 19 commemorating the final end of slavery in the rebelling states just after the end of ...
Juneteenth, which falls on June 19, is a national holiday this week. Juneteenth, short for "June Nineteenth," commemorates the day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to take ...
Recycling will not be impacted. The Dean Forest Landfill and Bacon Park Transfer Station will both be closed on Juneteenth. Both facilities will reopen at their regularly scheduled hours on ...
Juneteenth became one of five date-specific federal holidays along with New Year's Day (January 1), Independence Day (July 4), Veterans Day (November 11), and Christmas Day (December 25). Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was declared a holiday in 1986.
The landfill, CHaRM Facility, and materials recycling facility will be closed on Juneteenth. Regular hours will resume on Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information, contact the ...
All nonessential federal and Indianapolis city government offices are closed Wednesday, June 19, for the holiday, but Indiana offices will be open. Indiana offices will be open and state employees ...
June 15, 2024 at 10:05 PM. Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation and ending slavery in the United States, is this month. It was officially recognized in 2021 by ...