![]() ![]() For those without a color-code designation, trash pickup during the Juneteenth holiday week will be delayed by one day, with Friday collection on Saturday. For residents assigned a trash color code, your collection schedule will rotate one weekday forward until the next holiday, Independence Day, will is Tuesday, July 4. There will be no trash collection in Columbus on Monday. Will there be trash, recycling and yard-waste collections? Parking on city of Columbus streets with kiosks, app payment notice or remaining meters will be free Monday, but parking restrictions at some locations may be enforced, including but not limited to zones marked for valets, taxis, loading, handicapped-only and residential parking permits. Do I have to pay to park on Columbus streets on the holiday? Are Columbus Metropolitan Library branches open?Īll Columbus Metropolitan Library branches will be closed Monday. UPS (United Parcel Service), FedEx, and Amazon are open and have normal delivery operations. Postal Service post offices will be closed, and there will be no regular mail delivery. Will there be mail and commercial package delivery? Here's what's open and what's closed: Are government offices open?įederal, state, Franklin County and city of Columbus government offices will be closed. President Joe Biden signed legislation in 2021 making Juneteenth Independence Day a federal holiday. The movement away from Columbus Day has not come without controversy.Monday is Juneteenth, which commemorates the emancipation of the remaining enslaved African Americans in Texas on June 19, 1865. ![]() On the national level, Columbus Day remains a federal holiday.īut a number of states, including Alaska and Virginia, as well as some cities either observe Indigenous Peoples' Day as a holiday or celebrate it in some way. Matthew Pfouts, director of communications and digital media for the Randolph Township Schools, told NPR the board has no further comment. "Everyone is still encouraged to celebrate them in whatever way they deem appropriate." ![]() "These State, Federal and other holidays have not been cancelled or taken away by this Board of Education as some are falsely claiming," the board said. "If we don't have anything on this calendar, then we don't have to have anyone hurt feelings," Randolph school board member Dorene Roche said during a June 10 public meeting, according to NJ.com.Ĭode Switch Seattle Swaps Columbus Day For 'Indigenous Peoples' Day'Ī press release issued by the Randolph board of education on Sunday clarified that the holidays will still be observed as days off and that their decision was not meant to dishonor "the great veterans and the heroes" after which several of those holidays are named. Some parents grew angry with the decision, but instead of reverting back to the old calendar, the board moved in early June to scrap all holiday names from the school calendar, not giving preference to either one of the October celebrations. ![]() In May, the Randolph school board voted unanimously to replace Christopher Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day. The Randolph Board of Education is now scheduled to convene Monday for a special meeting to reconsider its plan to remove holiday names from the school calendar. The goal appears to have been to sidestep the debate over Columbus Day, but the Randolph Township school system instead found itself squarely in it, and opponents of the move have called on school officials to resign. 50 Years Of NPR Confederate Names On Schools Are Flashpoints. ![]()
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