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All city of El Paso administrative offices will be closed on Wednesday, June 19, in observance of Juneteenth. Administrative offices will resume business on Thursday, June 20.
Since the New Jersey state government made Juneteenth a state holiday before the federal government declared it a national holiday, the state will continue to observe it on the third Friday in ...
Juneteenth not a state holiday in SC: Confederate Memorial Day in SC: What to know about 'holiday,' current status of Juneteenth. Today, Juneteenth has become a time for communities to come ...
Juneteenth is on Wednesday, June 19, 2024. The holiday always falls on June 19. Are government offices open on Juneteenth? Federal government offices will be closed, but state and local offices ...
A National Park Service fact sheet explains that "the word 'Juneteenth' is a Black English contraction, or portmanteau, of the month 'June' and the date 'Nineteenth'. Juneteenth celebrates the date of June 19, 1865, when enslaved people of African descent located in Galveston, Texas, finally learned of their freedom from the slavery system in ...
Juneteenth is coming up soon, and while not everyone has the holiday off, there are quite a few businesses that will be closed for the day.. Celebrations surrounding Juneteenth have been around ...
With Juneteenth being on a Wednesday this year, it is expected that several locations to be closed.
In Ohio, Butler County, Warren County and Clermont County offices will be closed. Federal offices: Juneteenth is a federal holiday. All nonessential government employees are off work, and most ...