Tavares – All offices of the Lake County Board of County Commissioners, as well as the Lake County Property Appraiser, Supervisor of Elections and the Tax Collector will be closed Feb. 15 in observance of Presidents Day.

Lake County Solid Waste’s residential curbside collection service, as well as the Lake County Landfill, will operate as normal. However, customer service will be closed.

The Lake County Animal Shelter, located at 12280 County Road 448 in Tavares, will also be closed.

Lake County Connection, the County’s disadvantaged transportation service, and LakeXpress, the fixed-route bus system, will be operating as normal on the holiday. For more information and schedules, visit www.ridelakexpress.com.

The Lake County Extension Center, located at 1951 Woodlea Road in Tavares, will be closed. For information about upcoming events hosted by the Extension, visit http://lake.ifas.ufl.edu/. 

The following Lake County libraries will be open on Feb. 15: Cooper Memorial Library (Clermont), Eustis Memorial Library, Fruitland Park Library, Leesburg Public Library, W.T. Bland Public Library (Mount Dora) and Umatilla Public Library. All other Lake County libraries will be closed. For additional holiday hours and closures specific to each library, please visit http://mylakelibrary.org/news/news_release.aspx?id=4292.