Make this the most tree-mendous Tree Week yet - host your own event! Tree Week || October 10-19 🚲 Tree walks or bike rides 🌱 Tree plantings 📖 Tree history talks or tours 🎨 Tree-related arts & crafts 💧 Trees for water quality ℹ️lexingtonky.gov/treeweek

Are you ready for Pick Up & Play? Cleaning up litter in Lexington parks is a slam dunk 🏀 Whether you’re at the basketball court or the playground this weekend, leave your neighborhood park cleaner than you found it. So Pick Up & Play - throw your trash away!

Early collection again this Monday 7/28 & Tuesday 7/29 due to the heat advisory ☀️

🌳 Tree Week Lexington 💚 October 10-19 ‼️ Deadline coming up! 🗓️ Events must be submitted by this MONDAY 8/11 to be included in the printed Tree Week brochure 🔗 lexingtonky.gov/treeweek

City waste collection will begin early Monday & Tuesday due to the heat advisory. Put your carts out the night before!

Deadline extended! Submit your event by Sept 2 to be included in the printed brochure 🌳💚🌱

🗑️♻️🍁 Heads up, Monday folks! No City waste pickup this Monday, Sept 1 due to Labor Day. 🗓️ Your makeup day is Wednesday, Sept 3. 🚫 Haley Pike, the Recycle Center & Electronics Recycling will be closed Saturday, Aug 30 & Monday, Sept 1.

🚨As of Sept. 1, text alerts will be sent through a new system. Re-sign up to keep getting text updates. Text Join + your keyword to 31002 📧 Email alerts will switch to the new system mid-September. If you're subscribed, you’ll get an email with instructions later

🌳 Want to help grow a greener, healthier Lexington? Become a Lex Grow Trees Ambassador! 🌱 Share benefits of trees 🌳 Distribute free native trees 🤝 Empower neighbors ✅ Paid training + hourly pay for outreach 📅 Applications due Sept 15 ℹ️bggreensource.org/lex-grow-trees/

Lexington now has two new outdoor warning sirens! Located in Cardinal Run Park North & behind Artworks at the Carver School (to alert those in Davis Park). This brings Lexington’s outdoor warning siren network to 33 operational sirens. Learn more: loom.ly/DYP2eJE

🌱 Mark your calendars - it's Free Mulch Day this Saturday! Lexington residents can get one pickup truck load of mulch for fall planting this Saturday, Sept. 20 from 8am - noon (or until mulch runs out) at 1631 Old Frankfort Pike. Enter via Jimmie Campbell Dr.

♻️🍁 Waste cart audits are happening soon! 🗓️ Next week, city crews will glance inside recycle & yard carts on the curb in some neighborhoods ➡️ This will help us make a plan to reduce contamination ℹ️ We’ll post more info about how the audits work & what we learn next week

Free Trash Day! ➡️Enter at blue & white Bluegrass Regional Transfer Station sign ✅Indoor household waste; 4 tires off rim 💲For a fee: outdoor waste like lawn furniture; construction debris 🚫NO household hazardous waste, liquids, appliances or electronics 🏠Lex residents only

🌳It’s Tree Week, Lexington! From October 10–19, neighbors of all ages are invited to celebrate the beauty & benefits of our community’s tree canopy Enjoy a week of activities from tree plantings & guided walks to art, cooking, yoga & more! ℹ️lexingtonky.gov/treeweek

Lexington’s HHW Day is this Saturday! ✅ Fill out the survey 📺 Separate your electronics to be collected first 🔥 Vapes contain lithium-ion batteries that can cause fires. Bring them to HHW to dispose of them safely! ℹ️ www.lexingtonky .gov/hhw

📰♻️ Paper shred is this Saturday! Lexington residents may bring up to 5 boxes or bags of paper to be shredded & recycled. It’s free, secure & good for the environment 🌎 📅 Sat, Oct 25, 9a-2p 📍1631 Old Frankfort Pk (enter via Jimmie Campbell Dr.) ℹ️lexingtonky.gov/papershred

🍂Options for fall leaves🍂 🦋Leave them on the lawn to provide habitat for pollinators 🍁If you have City waste collection, yard waste is picked up each week on your regular day 📬 Yard waste bag coupons were mailed in the AYS newsletter last month ℹ️lexingtonky.gov/leaves

Lexington has thousands of storm drains that lead to underground pipes & to our local creeks Everything on the ground ends up in our water💧 🐶 Pick up after your pet 🚮 Don't litter 🗑️ Bag your trash & keep your cart lid closed 💙 Together, we can keep our creeks clean!

TRAFFIC ALERT: Old Paris Rd between Northwood Dr and Eastin Rd - The roadway is shut down in both directions until further notice due to emergency sewer line repairs. Motorists will need to find an alternate route.