The City of Troy’s offices will be closed on Thursday, June 19, in observance of the Juneteenth Holiday. 

In addition to city offices being closed, there will be no sanitation, recycling, grass clippings or limbs picked up on June 19, either. Thursday’s routes will be picked up on Friday, June 20, instead. 

Emergency services such as police and fire protection will be fully operational during the holiday. Customers are asked to use the after hours number for utility outages, (334) 566-0177. For emergencies, call 911.

Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the U.S. that celebrates the end of slavery in America. Juneteenth is commemorated on June 19, in celebration of the day when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the Civil War on June 19, 1865. 

Juneteenth has been recognized as a federal holiday since 2021 but has been celebrated since 1866. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey also signed a bill earlier this year commemorating Juneteenth as an official Alabama state holiday, as well. In previous years, Ivey had signed executive orders acknowledging the occasion as a state holiday but the bill passed back in May makes it a permanent state holiday.