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Supervisors vote to end Lee-Jackson holiday

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By Southside Sentinel
Middlesex supervisors voted unanimously to drop a day from the holiday calendar set aside to honor Gen. Robert E. Lee, left, and Gen. Stonewall Jackson.

Holiday list loses day recognizing Confederate icons; gains Election Day

by Larry Chowning – 

The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors voted, 4-0, Oct. 6 on a 2020-2021 calendar that eliminates Lee-Jackson Day as a holiday and instead will give holiday status to county employees on “Election Day.”

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The Southside Sentinel has been serving Middlesex County and the adjacent region since April 9, 1896; SSentinel.com since 1997.

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