Leesburg municipal employees are getting two new paid holidays added to their calendars—but Juneteenth did not make the cut.
The City Commission voted 4-1 on Monday to designate New Year’s Eve and the last Friday in April—the official kickoff to the annual Leesburg Bikefest—as paid days off starting Oct. 1. Mayor Allyson Berry, the city’s first female African America mayor, cast the lone dissenting vote after her pitch to swap the Bikefest holiday for Juneteenth was shot down.
Juneteenth, which is recognized as both a federal and state holiday, commemorates the end of slavery in the United States…