City offices will be closed for Juneteenth
Published 4:42 pm Wednesday, June 14, 2023
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All state offices will be closed Monday, June 19, for Juneteenth as will be the the offices of the City of Elizabethton. Monday through Thursday garbage collections will be one day late with Thursday and Friday being collected on Friday.
The Elizabethton-Carter County Public Library will be closed Saturday, June 17, and Monday, June 19, in observance of Juneteenth. The library will re-open Tuesday, June 20.
Also, the Elizabethton Senior Citizens Center will be closed Monday.
June 19 is known as Juneteenth, or the nation’s second independence day. It commemorates the end of slavery in Texas, and therefore, the nation, a full two and a half years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Also, most financial institutions will be closed Monday for Juneteenth.