Holiday Schedule for Trash, Transit

Posted on December 22, 2016

By WJBC Staff

The holiday schedules for garbage, recycling and Connect Transit have been released.

Garbage and recycling will be collected on Friday. It will not be collected on Monday, but will be collected on Tuesday.

Christmas trees from residential properties can be placed on the curb for collection beginning on Wednesday. The Bloomington drop-off facility will be closed on December 23, 26, and 2, but will reopen on Wednesday.

Bulk waste will not be collected on December 23, and 26.

Connect Transit will be closing early and shortening service on Saturday for Christmas Eve. The last reservations for Connect Mobility will be made in between 6:00 and 6:30 pm.

There will be no Connect Transit service on Christmas or New Year’s Day.

Bloomington and Normal offices will be closed December 23-26.

Blogs

Labor Day – Expanding voting rights for all

By Mike Matejka Because of COVID, there is no Labor Day Parade this year.  It’s always a great event for our everyday workers to march proudly down the street and enjoys the festive crowd. If there had been a parade, this year’s Labor Day theme was to be “150 years of struggle: your right to vote.” …

Is federal mobilization the answer?

By Mike Matejka As President Donald Trump threatens to send federal marshals into Chicago, over the objections of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, recall another Illinois Governor who protested the incursion of armed federal personnel into the city.   Those federal troops, rather than calming, escalated the situation, leading to deaths and violence. Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay…

In these troubled times, to my fellow white Americans

By Mike Matejka Our nation is at a unique watershed in human relations. African-Americans have been killed too many times in the past before George Floyd, but the response to this man’s death is international and all-encompassing. I was a grade-schooler during the Civil Rights 1960s. I watched Birmingham demonstrators hosed and the Selma – Montgomery…

Workers’ Memorial Day – Remember those whose job took their life

Looking around our community, when we say employer, most will respond to State Farm, Country, or Illinois State University.   We too often forget those who are building our roads, serving our food, or our public employees. COVID-19 has made us more aware of the risk.  Going to work every day for some people means…