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Inclement Weather Closing
County Offices are closing today and tomorrow due to inclement weather:
🚨 Changes to curbside collection for WEDNESDAY, February 10, due to impending weather 🚨
Due to the forecasted ice/sleet, Central Kentucky Hauling will be running routes EARLIER than normal tomorrow, Wednesday February 10, to ensure the safety of their drivers. To ensure your trash and recycle is collected, please have your carts out this evening for...
🚨 TRASH COLLECTION CHANGE FOR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 🚨
Due to weather conditions yesterday and needing to make up for missed collection, the following areas will have their trash collected tomorrow: Cherrywood, Cedarwood, Edgewood, Lynnwood, Ravenwood, Stockton, Sheep Pen, & Taylor Branch. These roads will be...
🚨 TRASH COLLECTION CHANGE FOR MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1 🚨
The following roads did not have their trash collected today, but will instead be collected tomorrow - February 2: Flat Creek, Harp Pike, Harvieland Rd, Moss Ln, Skyview Dr, and Skyline. We apologize for the inconvenience, but the routes were ran differently today due...
2021 Trash for Cash program sign up information
Our Solid Waste Management Department is going to be opening the sign up portal for our Trash for Cash litter pickup program on Wednesday February 17th at 9 am. Signups will be open for 24 hours at the following link: http://forms.gle/c39MkWDLQF4zrKLj9. The link is...
FRANKLIN COUNTY COVID-19 SMALL BUSINESS GRANT APPLICATION
DEADLINE EXTENSION DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER CONDITIONS - APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED UNTIL WEDNESDAY 3/3/21, AT NOON. The Franklin County Fiscal Court, 321 W. Main Street Frankfort, Kentucky, believes the continued success of small local businesses is essential to...
Kentucky Launches Free Statewide Wi-Fi Speed Test to Better Connect People to School, Business and Government Services
Go to http://ewdc.ky.gov/Initiatives/Pages/KBI.aspx to participate Frankfort, Ky. (Jan. 21, 2021) – Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman announced today the launch of the Kentucky Broadband Speed Test, a crowd-sourcing project that will gather data from Kentuckians needed to...
A vaccine update from the Franklin County Health Department
Franklin County Health Department Director Judy Mattingly knows county residents are anxious to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. She said in Monday’s weekly COVID update by community leaders that the health department would like to relieve that anxiety. “Please know, at...
EDITED: County trash and recycle collection moved one day behind due to weather
All trash/recycle collection will run one day behind in the County for the week of 1/18/2021 due to unsafe road conditions. Due to some potentially unsafe road conditions, Central Kentucky Hauling did not complete collection yesterday, January 18. All pickups will now...
Capitol Area Safety Plan
Information from Frankfort, Kentucky - City Hall and the Franklin County Office of Emergency Management about Safety Precautions surrounding possible protests around the Capitol area this weekend.