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• All Cumberland County Solid Waste locations, including the Ann Street Landfill at 698 Ann St., will be closed Monday but will operate on a regular schedule Tuesday and Wednesday. Fayetteville ...
Observed by Alabama, Florida, [note 1] Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, [note 2] and Texas [note 3] (formerly observed by Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, and Virginia) Day after Christmas: 6 [30] [32] Observed by Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and the US Virgin Islands. Lincoln's Birthday: 5 [30]
Many federal holidays have been proposed. As the U.S. federal government is a large employer, the holidays are expensive. If a holiday is controversial, opposition will generally prevent bills enacting them from passing. For example, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, marking King's birthday, took much effort to pass [35] and for all states to ...
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In 1926, Congress passed a bill making Armistice Day an annual national holiday. Years later, Alvin J King from Emporia, Kansas, lobbied to have the name changed to Veterans Day.
In 1987, Martin Luther King Jr. Day was added as a federal holiday for the third Monday in January, and in that year the Texas Legislature made it an optional state holiday, and in 1991 they made MLK Day an official state holiday. In some years (1987, 1998, 2004, 2009, 2015, 2026) MLK Jr. Day and Confederate Heroes Day fall on the same day.
The 2024-25 calendar includes many single day breaks that will provide three-day weekends, including for Labor Day, Sept. 2 on Monday; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 20 on Monday ...
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