Mid City Times

Most City offices, including City Hall, will be closed on November 28-29 for the Thanksgiving holiday. Emergency services will continue to operate as usual.

Solid waste collection will not occur on November 28. Residents with a regular Thursday pickup will have their service shifted to Friday, and those with a Friday pickup will have it moved to Saturday. Bulk collections will resume on November 29, with normal schedules resuming on Monday, December 2. "All residents are allowed two extra bags of garbage next to the cart on their first pickup day following Thanksgiving," according to the city notice. Extra bags may be collected at different times than the carts.

The City's four drop-off stations and the Environmental Collection Center will also be closed on November 28-29 and will reopen on November 30.

Animal Care & Control facilities, including North Animal Campus and Chuck & Brenda Silcox Animal Care & Adoption Center, will close during the same period but resume operations on November 30. Hulen and Alliance PetSmart Adoption Centers are set to open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. on November 29 after being closed for Thanksgiving Day.

All Fort Worth Public Library locations are scheduled to close from November 28-29.

Community centers and recreational amenities like Haws Athletic Center, FW@6 programs, Log Cabin Village, and Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge will shut down entirely on November 28. However, Rockwood Golf Course remains open that day while other municipal golf courses close but reopen for regular hours starting November 29. McLeland Tennis Center is slated to close early at 3 p.m. on November 27 and remain closed through Thanksgiving Day.

For water utility needs such as payments or emergencies, residents can access an automated system via a call center available around the clock at "817-392-4477."

Regarding mass transit changes: Trinity Metro TEXRail maintains regular service throughout the holiday; however, bus services including Trinity Metro On-Demand (paratransit) buses operating Sunday schedules like Orange Line provide hourly runs only between designated hours (7 a.m.-7 p.m.). Molly Trolley operates every half hour while there'll be no service across several lines - notably TRE Railway Express (TRE), TRE LINK among others within specified areas until they partially resume next day under altered conditions except CentrePort Circulator which stays inactive alongside certain On-Demand routes till further notice given operational limits set forth hereunder: “On Nov.29 all services return back normalcy barring aforementioned exceptions where applicable.”

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