City Hall closed for Juneteenth

If you have in-person business pending with the City of Troy, don't try to conduct it next Monday.

The city offices, located on the fifth floor of the Hedley Park Place building at 433 River Street, will be closed on June 19 in honor of Juneteenth. Normal hours will resume on Tuesday.

Not familiar with Juneteenth? 

It is a federal holiday -- officially Juneteenth National Independence Day -- commemorating June 19, 1865, that word finally reached enslaved people in Texas that President Lincoln had freed them from bondage. That was a year and a half after publication of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Though celebrated sporadically around the nation since then, it became a federal holiday in 2021. 

According to Wikipedia, "Early celebrations date to 1866, at first involving church-centered community gatherings in Texas. They spread across the South and became more commercialized in the 1920s and 1930s, often centering on a food festival. Participants in the Great Migration brought these celebrations to the rest of the country."

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