{"id":85663,"date":"2025-12-16T19:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85663\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T19:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:37:06","slug":"lee-county-operations-adjust-schedules-for-the-holidays-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85663\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee County operations adjust schedules for the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most Lee County administrative operations will be closed Thursday, Dec. 25, and Friday, Dec. 26, in observance of the Christmas holiday, as well as Thursday, Dec. 31, and Friday, Jan. 1, for the New Year\u2019s holiday.<\/p>\n<p>The holiday schedule adjustments:<\/p>\n<p>Solid Waste<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Collections of garbage, recycling and yard waste will continue as normal on Wednesday, Dec. 24. There will be no collections on Thursday, Dec. 25, and collections will continue with typical Thursday collections happening on Friday, typical Friday collections on Saturday and so on.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Solid Waste offices will be closed on Thursday, Dec. 25, and Friday, Dec. 26.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Resource Recovery Facility in Buckingham and the Lee-Hendry Landfill will be open regular hours Wednesday, Dec. 24, but closed on Thursday, Dec. 25.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Collections of garbage, recycling and yard waste will continue as normal on Wednesday, Dec. 31. There will be no collections on Thursday, Jan. 1, and collections will continue with typical Thursday collections happening on Friday, and typical Friday collections on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Solid Waste offices will be closed on Thursday, Jan. 1, and Friday, Jan. 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Resource Recovery Facility in Buckingham and the Lee-Hendry Landfill will be open regular hours on Wednesday, Dec. 31, but closed on Thursday, Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Household Chemical Waste (HCW) drop-off facility and the Reuse Center will be closed on Thursday, Dec. 25, and Friday, Dec. 26.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Household Chemical Waste (HCW) drop-off facility and the Reuse Center will be closed on Thursday, Jan. 1, and Friday, Jan. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas trees that have had the stand, lights and decorations removed, including tinsel, can be set out with regular yard waste to be ground into mulch. As a reminder, plastic toys, ribbons, bows, metallic and plastic wrapping paper and batteries should not be placed in recycle carts. Batteries should be brought to Lee County\u2019s Household Chemical Waste Facility located at 6441 Topaz Court, Fort Myers. For a more detailed list of where items should go visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leegov.com\/solidwaste\/recycle-coach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.leegov.com\/solidwaste\/recycle-coach<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LeeTran<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 LeeTran will operate its regularly scheduled bus service on Wednesday, Dec. 24. There will be no bus, trolley, beach tram, ADA Passport or ULTRA on-demand services on Thursday, Dec. 25. Service will resume on Friday, Dec. 26. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/rideleetran.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rideleetran.com<\/a> for route info.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Parks &amp; Recreation<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Beaches, boat ramps, parks and preserves will remain open Thursday, Dec. 25, and Friday, Dec. 26.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The administration office will be closed Thursday, Dec. 25, and Friday, Dec. 26. Normal hours resume Monday, Dec. 29, , and Thursday, Jan. 1, and Friday, Jan. 2, resuming normal operating hours Monday, Jan. 5.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Pools are closed Thursday, Dec. 25, and Friday, Dec. 26, resuming normal operating hours Saturday, Dec. 27.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Beaches, boat ramps, parks and preserves will be open Thursday, Jan. 1, and Friday, Jan. 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Pools are closed Thursday, Jan. 1, and Friday, Jan. 2, resuming normal operating hours Saturday, Jan. 3.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Library System<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 All branches will be closed Wednesday, Dec. 24, and Thursday, Dec. 25. Normal hours of operation resume Friday, Dec. 26. All branches will also be closed Wednesday, Dec. 31, and Thursday, Jan. 1. Normal hours of operation resume Friday, Jan. 2.<\/p>\n<p>The library is available online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leelibrary.net\/online\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.leelibrary.net\/online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most Lee County administrative operations will be closed Thursday, Dec. 25, and Friday, Dec. 26, in observance of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":{"0":"post-85663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}