City of Colleyville offices, including the Library and Senior Center, will close for the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, November 25 and Friday, November 26. Thursday and Friday trash and recycle collections will be delayed by one day.

Colleyville's Christmas Tree Lighting is two weeks away! This event will return to an in-person, on-site celebration with features the whole family can enjoy. Choir performances, farmers market, pony and carriage rides, a petting zoo, drive-in movies, inflatables and a carousel, food trucks, and so much more! Colleyville's favorite Christmas monkey will return and word has it that Santa has us on his radar. As with all city events, this is FREE to the public. For more information, visit Colleyville.com/Christmas.

Join us for this festive event at the Plaza and south grounds of City Hall on Friday, December 3 from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.

The latest edition of Your Council Minute is available and covers action taken by the City Council at the November 16 City Council meeting. Your Council Minute is also posted to the city's Facebook page and city website.

All public meetings can be viewed (live and recorded) on the city's Facebook page and at Colleyville.com.

The final phase of the City's SH26 beautification project has begun! The construction contract for the Gateway Project (tower construction in three locations) was awarded to C. Green Scaping with a duration of 365 days. A notice to proceed was issued effective November 1 and a groundbreaking ceremony was held on November 16. The contractor plans to start work at the Main Street/SH26 location.

You may have already noticed green fencing going up on a piece of property just south of Chick-fil-A, as this will serve as the primary staging area for the contractor. The work at the Main Street/SH26 intersection will involve construction of towers at the NW and SW corners. Once those towers are constructed, the contractor will then move south to work on the Creekside tower near Little Bear Creek. After that, work will return to Main Street to complete certain improvements on the NW and SE corners. The last element to be constructed will be at the Northern Gateway (John McCain/SH26).

The newest edition of Behind the Barricades is now available. This video provides construction updates related to the Glade Road construction project, including completion of the Riverwalk roundabout and road work from Stafford Road to Montclair.

Construction updates for all capital improvement projects can be viewed at Colleyville.com.

The holidays, with their fried turkeys, buttery foods, and gravy, can be hard on your diet — and on pipes and sewer systems. When fats, oils, and grease are washed down the drain, they stick to the inside of pipes, hardening and building up until they cause clogs and sewer backups. This can cause sewage overflow into homes, streets, and local waterways. Whether the repairs are in your home or in the street, it can be costly and inconvenient. If the sewer overflows, city crews have to shut down streets, tying up traffic and increasing expenses for both residents and the city.

Instead of washing your grease down the drain, participate in the 2021 Holiday Grease Roundup and recycle it for free! The City of Colleyville is partnering with the North Texas Municipal Water District, the North Central Texas Council of Governments, the Wastewater and the Treatment Education Roundtable, and American BioSource to help protect sewer systems and the environment by providing a drop-off location to collect your holiday grease. The collected cooking oil and grease will be recycled into biodiesel or biogas, which reduces landfill waste and produces an alternative fuel that is clean and green.

Cooking grease and oil will be collected at the Colleyville Public Works facility located at 1601 Hall-Johnson Road from Monday, November 22 through Monday, January 10. Collection hours are 7:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m., Monday through Friday. There will be no collections on weekends or City holidays.

The special leaf recycling days continue tomorrow! Special leaf and Christmas tree recycling collections have returned this winter with a few changes. Community Waste Disposal (CWD), Colleyville's trash and recycling provider, will run special collection routes to recycle bagged leaves. This year's program was expanded to six collection days, up from four days last year. The special collection days are Saturday, Nov. 13, Nov. 20, Dec. 4, Dec. 11, Dec. 18, and Jan. 8 with collections beginning at 8am. CWD will also collect and recycle Christmas trees on the January special collection day.

To participate, residents just need to set out leaves on the designated days. New for 2021, CWD will recycle leaves in any bag; either paper lawn craft bag or plastic bag. If leaf bags are set out prior to the Saturday collections, residents are asked to place leaf bags separately from household trash. Regular rear-load garbage trucks will be used for these special collection days. With that in mind, residents should be aware of and comply with their Homeowner Association's policies. For more information about the program, call 817.503.1111.

Join us for the last Colleyville Farmers Market this fall. Vendors will include those from the recent Harvest Festival as well as several others. Stop by to enjoy some music, lawn games, food trucks, and more. We look forward to seeing you there!

On November 24, Colleyville Public Library celebrates its 18th birthday and we are THANKFUL for you, Colleyville!

To celebrate the Library's special day, and in the spirit of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, any Colleyville Library card holder who checks out an item Monday, Nov. 22 through Wednesday, Nov. 24 will receive a special birthday card and treat! Birthday cards and treats will also be included as part of the weekly at-home delivery.

Be sure to join us for Thanksgiving Story Time, Thanksgiving Snack & Craft, and our Family Movie next week.