If you have business with the city to handle on Monday, you can forget about conducting it then and you might be wise to go out and enjoy a parade instead.
City of Greensboro offices will be closed Monday, January 19, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day – with a wide range of city services operating on holiday or modified schedules.
There will be no garbage, recycling, bulk trash, yard waste, or appliance collections on Monday. Monday’s collections will instead take place Tuesday, January 20, and Tuesday’s collections will move to Wednesday, January 21.
Solid waste facilities will also be affected. The White Street Landfill and the Solid Waste Transfer Station will be closed on January 19. The Household Hazardous Waste Collection Center, however, will remain open, operating from 10 am to 6 pm.
Several cultural and educational facilities will be closed for the holiday.
The Greensboro Public Library system, the Greensboro History Museum, and the Greensboro Cultural Center won’t be open to the public on Monday.
Public transportation will continue to operate, though on a reduced schedule. Greensboro Transit Agency buses and Access GSO will run on a weekend schedule, with hourly service on most routes from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Parks and Recreation services will see a mix of closures and openings.
City recreation centers, Lake Higgins, the Smith and Trotter Active Adult Centers, the Greensboro Youth Council, Adaptive and Inclusive Recreation, Xperience @ Caldcleugh, the Greensboro Sportsplex, the Simkins Indoor Sports Pavilion at Barber Park, and Parks and Recreation administrative offices will all be closed on January 19.
Regular hours for those programs and facilities will resume Tuesday, January 20.
At the same time, outdoor amenities will remain available: All city parks, gardens, trails, cemeteries, Lake Brandt, Lake Townsend, and Gillespie Golf Course will be open to the public throughout the holiday.
City administrative buildings will also be closed to in-person services. The Melvin Municipal Office Building and the J. Edward Kitchen Operations Center won’t be open on January 19. (Residents who need to pay a water bill during the closure are encouraged to use alternative payment options available through the city’s website.)
Water and sewer emergency services will continue without interruption. For water main breaks, sewer stoppages, or changes in the taste, odor, or color of drinking water, residents can contact Water Resources 24-hour Dispatch at 336-373-2033.
All city offices and facilities are scheduled to resume normal operations on Tuesday, January 20, following the holiday observance by the City of Greensboro.
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It sure is nice of the City to commemorate the birthday of our hero, Robert E. Lee.
I love that idea Al.
Not shocked to see Al get all excited about a Traitor to the United States of America who fought for the right to brutalize other human beings for financial profit.
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Robert E. Lee was a better man than you will ever be.
three quarters of a million die in a brutal civil war . . . abraham lincoln, gifted statesman ? ! ! the propaganda machine grinds forever on with the “victorious” left to fabricate ‘history’. lincoln was a career politician. read d k goodwin’s ‘team of rivals’.
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Markl, I agree with you. The victors get to write the history books.
Lincoln was extremely cynical and duplicitous. Even his hallowed Emancipation Proclamation took care only to free slave is areas where he had no power to do so, while keeping enslaved slaves in the Union.
And he was the first “leader” ever to wage total war on an enemy and their people, rather than battlefield warfare. Sherman and Grant were explicitly ordered to destroy the South as a society, not just defeat their military.
In many ways, he was the first fascist.
Would you rather we be two separate countries versus a United States? Are you one of the fools who claim the war wasn’t about slavery? I personally believe the war was worth the great sacrifice as it made us what we are today as the United States…too bad conservatives are trying to destroy what used to make us great.
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Why shouldn’t we be two separate countries? – the USA and the CSA? If the people of a discrete political entity decide they want to extricate themselves from that body politic and become a free and sovereign people, who’s to stop them? This is the universal human right of self-determination, as enunciated in The Declaration of Independence and the United Nations Charter.
To put it in a contemporary context, if the people of Scotland had voted to secede from the United Kingdom in 2014, should the British Army have invaded Scotland, terrorized the people, destroyed their economy, and forced them to remain in (their) Union? That would have been an obscene injustice. What kind of Union holds you in it at gunpoint? That question is as valid today as it was in 1865.
And let’s shake off the lying language of the Yankees while we’re at it. The War for Southern Independence was NOT a civil war. A civil war is when two or more factions are battling it out for control of a country. Examples include the English Civil War and the Spanish Civil War. In the former Oliver Cromwell’s army won and the King was beheaded. In the latter General Franco’s army won and he ruled Spain until his death decades later.
But the South never wanted to occupy DC and control the United States. It wished only to leave the Union and be in control of itself. It was not in the least a Civil War; it was a war of secession.
The right of a state or group of states to leave the Union was thought implicit in the Founding Documents, and the New England states seriously considered secession in the late 18th Century. The right of a free state to secede was a bulwark against Federal aggrandizement, and the loss of that right (the real casualty in the War for Southern Independence) has indeed lead to a massive overreach in Federal power and control.
So yes, we would be much better off today as two distinct polities. And The South would not have been devastated for generations by the bellicose and belligerent Northerners.
Al, the divide in this country isn’t by State boarders. It is by urban and rural. It is by educated and under-educated. It is by old and young. The ignorance of your statement tells me what side you fall on.
Comparing the relationships of the States with the UK and Scotland is moronic. Scotland and England have had numerous wars over their relationship with a long history of being untied and separate versus the States. And yes, it would make sense for the UK to go to war if Scotland tried to break off. Although that war would most likely be economic than with guns and bombs.
Trying to change the definition of civil war and then actually giving the very definition of a civil war as your explanation cracks me up. Moronic take on the use of the word. In case you care: Civil War is defined as a high-intensity, sustained armed conflict between organized groups within the same state or country. Unlike a riot or brief coup, a civil war involves large-scale violence where the factions are fighting for control of the government, regional independence (secession), or to change major state policies. So try again with your weird take that the US Civil war wasn’t a civil war because it was as you said ” it was a war of secession.” Part of a country fighting to break off is in the very definition of civil war. That is as moronic as Alan continuously saying the US isn’t a democracy because it is a republic when a republic is a form of democracy. LOL.
But there you have it….the conservative party that claims to the party of patriots, would rather divide the country in two. Got it. We know who really hates America and wants to destroy this great country. Morons like Al.
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This guy Chris is hilarious! He spells borders “boarders” and then accuses ME of being ignorant.
He’s so stupid he doesn’t understand how stupid he is.
I didn’t bother with the rest of his drivel. It’ll be equally shallow and moronic.
Al the, the man of willful ignorance, can’t read past a typo….why? Because he would have to admit he was wrong in this thinking how the political divide of this country is actually NOT aligned by borders between States but by rural and urban, young and old, and men and women…..
Tells us again why you think we should divide this great country in two again Al? Please share your hatred for this country for all to read and how you would rather destroy America than learn to live with diversity of people and ideas. Go ahead Al, tell us…..
Bet you won’t
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You, “Chris” are a nasty, lying piece of human excrement. I love my country, and don’t you dare put opposite, vile lies in my mouth, you con artist.
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The so called Civil War was actually a war of secession, like the Bangladesh Liberation War, not a true civil war.
As usual, Chris profoundly misunderstands reality.
Why shouldn’t we be two separate countries?
Those are your words.
War of succession is a type of civil war.
The definition of civil war is “a war between citizens of the same country”. This clearly fits the US civil war which is why it has always been called the American Civil War by historians.
Your denying the American Civil War was a civil war is as stupid as Alan claiming the US is not a democracy because it is a republic. A republic is a form of democracy. As a war of succession is a type of civil war.
Duh.
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Incorrect.
Your intellect might be too obtuse to discern between a civil war and a secession war, but that just demonstrates your stupidity.
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“War of succession”…??? What, like the Spanish War of Succession??
You’re such an effing moron. You are literally a joke.
At least you give us all a few laughs, you sorry little troll.
The true sign of a moron is someone who doesn’t know that they don’t know. THAT describes AL.
The simplest and traditional definition of a civil war is a war fought between citizens of the same country. But there are a number of reasons brothers go to war with brothers. So…..
I was actually curious what IS the difference between a war of secession (not be confused with succession….my mistake) and a civil war. I found a number of articles on the subject written by historians. They make clear that reason the US war is referred to as a civil war is based on the result of the war as well as legal standing.
Traditionally, a civil war involves two or more groups vying for control of the same government. In the US conflict, the South did not seek to take over Washing, DC but rather to separate and from their own nation. Despite this, the term is widely accepted because the North won and maintained the country as a single entity.
Now it gets technical: The Supreme Court Ruled in Texas v. White (1869) that secession was unconstitutional and that the United States was an “indestructible union” meaning the Southern states legally remained part of the US even during the war. Hence, it’s label of a civil war is fitting even considering the intent of the war was secession.
If you weren’t a child craving your ‘got ya’ moment we could have had an intelligent exchange and agree and disagree on the legal and historical views of the labeling of the war. The facts get more interesting given that the official name of the war in government archives is ‘War of Rebellion’. While in the South, State records refer to it was War Between the States.
Fun is knowing what you don’t know and actually learning by research versus assumption.
But you be you.
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No, you’re just stupid, and it’s blindingly obvious.
“You can’t argue with an idiot” – old fashioned saying.
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The Supreme Court ruling is a perfect example of circular reasoning, imposed by the victors in ex post facto hubris.
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There’s a small place I stop by occasionally in Burlington that celebrates another holiday in April
You should stop in some afternoon for a beer Chris
A day drinker. Not really my thing but thank you for the invite.
Best wishes
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Careful Chrissy, your supercilious condescension is showing.
There’s nothing you like quite as much as looking down on other people, is there?
Hugs and kisses!
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Poofter.
Thank you Chris
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I suspect Al is baiting Chrissy and all the other hand wringing Leftist wankers.
And they’re falling for it!
If by baiting you mean showing his desire to destroy America by supporting the idea of breaking the country into two, he is just showing how much he hates America, nothing more and nothing less.
Lee was a great American. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Lee was Commandant at West Point. President Lincoln asked him to command the Union Army. Lee did not want to fight against his home state, so he resigned to join the Confederate Army. Like Washington, Lee was a great General.
No question he as a great general. Too bad he fought on behalf of the traitors.
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Were the American Colonists traitors in 1776 ?
Brits want to know.
I think back in Robert Lee’s day allegiance to your state was foremost in many folks minds…..just as allegiance to political ideology is today. Nobody in Virginia was calling Lee a traitor, even if he did invent slavery.
Robert E. Lee didn’t invent slavery, it was around well before him. Lincoln’s wife on the other hand grew up in a family from Kentucky who were slave owners.
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He was born into a society in which that institution was the norm. After excelling at West Point he fully expected to join the US Army, but as Peter points out, one’s allegiances in those days were primarily to your state, and as a proud Virginian Lee chose to fight for his state and its people, to assert their right to self-determination, and secede from the Union.
It was the assertion of the same right that’s expounded in the Declaration of Independence, by which the 13 Colonies chose to secede from the British Empire. In fact, it’s such a universal human right that it is proclaimed in the United Nations Charter.
The Yankees abrogated that right, waged war on their American cousins for daring to wish to leave peacefully, and laid waste to the South.
And we’re supposed to believe that they were the good guys…
The South deserved to be laid to waste as they brutalized millions of human beings for personal profit and greed and when the world woke up to how evil the practice was they fought to keep the practice going. Glad they lost. We are a better country for it and those that wish they won are just inhuman bigots who don’t respect the value of life.
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The only bigot here is the guy who applauds the wholesale violence and destruction wrought on the people of the Southern states…. and then claims to respect the value of life.
Hypocrite ! Bigot !
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This guy Chris demonstrates his inferior intellect with every comment he makes. He can be relied upon to unquestioningly parrot the conventional wisdom on every issue. That’s because he is incapable of independent, clear; logical analysis. So he regurgitates all the liberal talking points he sees on CNN, ABC, etc, along with their rationales.
In other words, he’s jaw droppingly unintelligent, pedestrian, predictable and pedantic.
That’s why he is so tiresome and such a bore.
Al, the Patriot that believes a divided America is a good idea over a United States. Funny how conservatives always make the hollow claim that Democrats want to destroy America but the truth is the opposite given how quickly they defend the idea of splitting up the United States. I absolutely applaud those that fought to end slavery and keep America whole. True colors of Al are showing and they aren’t Red White or Blue.
FYI, I don’t watch cable news or read their websites. Most of it is garbage.
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A three state North America (USA, CSA, Canada) would be no more divided than 20 state Europe.
There’s nothing divisive about claiming your sovereignty. Or would you have been against dividing the British Empire in 1776?
Your arguments are as hollow as your skull.
Al doubles down on a divided America while ignoring the fact that the political differences between the people of this United Country do not follow State lines. Not only anti-patriotic, Al seems to choose willful ignorance yet again. Got it.
Answer my question.
And spare me the smears.
Comparing the US and Europe is as moronic as your desire to split of the US into two new countries. THAT is your answer.
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So you have no answer, just more childish insults and attempted deflections.
You’re pathetic.
ditto but it’s hard to have an ‘equality’ relationship with someone who thinks i owe them ‘reparations’ for historical reasons. add zionists.
Chris. Are you implying that NO Northern states had or used slaves.
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Crickets from Chris. LOL !
Can they just……………stay closed?
Chris Here’s something to make your head spin about states rights and secession. Texas was a true republic, its own country, when it became a state. In its constitution, it can at any time divide itself into 5 individual states ( think of those consequences- 10 senators plus House Representatives) or it can at any time leave the USA and become an independent country. There is Nothing to stop Texas if should choose that path.
God Bless Texas! Freedom now!
And let’s hope that the Federal Government doesn’t bomb the people of that great state.