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Vendor Lookup
Find a City Vendor The City of Tallahassee Vendor Lookup page enables any member of the public or our employees to search on company names that are active vendors on our Financial System. The search for names field found below accepts any search string and returns a list of active vendors whose name is contained within the search string a user requests. If you are a company that is interested in doing business with the City of Tallahassee please use the Business, Business to Government section of....
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Walker-Ford Community Center
Location and Hours of Operation 2301 Pasco Street | 850-891-3970 Monday - Saturday: 9:00am - 9:00pm Classes and Events The Walker-Ford Community Center offers diversified programs and activities for the entire neighborhood. Walker-Ford opened on June 13, 1976, and has provided the community with ongoing recreational activities, programs and events for all ages. The Center's programs draw interest from a variety of citizens within Tallahassee and un-incorporated areas of Leon County. The staff is r...
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Pickleball
Come join us for one of America's fastest-growing sports - Pickleball! Pickleball uses hard paddles, modified whiffle balls and the lower mini tennis nets, and is a lot of fun to play for people of all ages. Played on a badminton-sized court, Pickleball combines many elements of tennis, badminton and ping-pong. You can choose to play outdoors or inside - wherever there is a net, some paddles and a Pickleball. While the game is popular with seniors, some of the best players in the nation are under 18 and....
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Look Up Your Waste Management Pick Up Schedule By Address
Enter an Address: Valid addresses with waste management services will appear as you type. Once you select an address from the drop down list, waste management information for that address will display below. New accounts may take up to five days to appear in this tool. Please call 850-891-4968 if you need assistance. --> Address: --> Services Search Result Garbage / Recycling Bulky Items / Yard Waste Waste Management Pickup Schedule What does red/blue week mean? We pick up bulky items and yard wa...
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Composting
Compost is organic material that can be added to soil to help plants grow. Food scraps and yard waste currently make up 20 to 30 percent of what we throw away and should be composted instead. Making compost keeps these materials out of landfills, where they take up space and release methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Composting requires three basic ingredients: Browns - This includes materials such as dead leaves, branches, and twigs. Greens - This includes materials such as grass clippings, vegetable wa...
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Celebrate Black History Month
Black History Month grew from a one-week celebration initiated by Carter G. Woodson in 1926. Fifty years later in 1976, President Gerald Ford made the effort to notice Black History Week and officially recognized the time as Black History Month in February of that year. Originating in the United States, Black History Month has received official recognition from both the United States and Canadian governments, who celebrate in February. More recently, Black History Month has been observed in Ireland and ....
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Heritage
Tallahassee Bicentennial Tallahassee became the capital of the territory of Florida on March 4, 1824. It was chosen for its beauty and because it was the midway point between St. Augustine and Pensacola, the principal cities where legislators were conducting government business at the time. The city got its name from a Muskogean Indian word meaning "old fields." To commemorate Tallahassee's Bicentennial, the City is producing a video series, "Tallahassee—200 Years in the Making." Dream Buil...
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City-Owned Cemeteries | Old City Cemetery
Download the full brochure on the Old City Cemetery (PDF) Most of the material in this overview of the Old City Cemetery is taken from a series of publications of the former Historic Tallahassee Preservation Board. In the early 1990s, The Board undertook an evaluation and restoration (assisted by Sass Conservation, of New York City, and the Center for Historic Cemeteries Preservation) of many of the cemetery's treasures. Early History Old City Cemetery is the oldest public cemetery in Tallahassee. It wa...
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