Correction

Town Hall will be closed June 17

Jun 15, 2021

Town Hall will be closed on Thursday, June 17 in observance of the Juneteenth holiday. Town Administrator Derek Sullivan announced the closure during the June 15 Board of Selectmen meeting.

The holiday falls on a Saturday, but the Wareham Free Library and Town Hall will be closed on Friday. The library will also be closed on Saturday, June 19, in observance of the day.

Juneteenth, annually celebrated on June 19, marks the day a group of enslaved people in Southern Texas finally learned — in 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation — that they were free from the institution of slavery.

This story has been corrected to accurately reflect that Town Hall will be closed Thursday, June 17. A previous version of this story misstated when the building would be closed.