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November 20, 2012

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NORMAN — Holiday trash schedule

The Sanitation Division will be closed on Thanksgiving Day. Those customers with a Thursday pick up will be done on Friday and those regularly on Friday will be picked up on Saturday. The compost facility and the transfer station will be closed on Thanksgiving Day but will reopen Friday with normal operating hours.

The compost facility, 398 Bratcher Miner Road, is open from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., and the transfer station, 3901 S. Chautauqua Ave., is open from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

City administrative offices will be closed Thursday and Friday for the Thanksgiving holiday. If you should have any questions, call 329-1023.

— Transcript Staff

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