It is the Juneteenth Holiday in Rhode Island and the nation.
Schools are closed.
No mail today. No banking business either.
Federal, State and Local government offices will be closed today as well.
The stores are open.
This is the first year that the state is marking the day that residents of Gavelson Texas found out that slavery had been abolished.
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