Lexington Utilities

10/22/2026

⚠ ⚠ Beginning at 6 PM THURS., OCT. 22, all City of Lexington systems will be temporarily offline for maintenance. Payments will be unavailable, and utility outages must be reported by phone at (336) 243-2489. We’ll announce when systems are restored. Thank you for your patience!

10/20/2026

10/15/2026

Thank you for helping us celebrate Hispanic Heritage month!

10/14/2026

Our feature for Hispanic Heritage Month today is Dr.Isabel Pérez Farfante, a Cuban-born zoologist. Farfante obtained her master’s degree in 1944 and doctorate in 1948 from Radcliffe College at Harvard University, becoming the first Cuban woman to receive her Ph.D. from an Ivy League school. She became one of the world's foremost zoologists studying prawns. After recieving her doctorate, she was working as a professor and biologist in her homeland of Cuba when she and her husband learned they had been “blacklisted” by Fidel Castro's government. Fearing for their safety, the family fled to the United States. There she joined the National Marine Fisheries Service as a systematic zoologist at its laboratory in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. She was appointed carcinologist emeritus with the Service in 1986, and, one year later, she earned a role as a research associate in the Museum’s division of crustacea, where she remained until her retirement.

10/13/2026

We continue our features celebrating Hispanic Heritgae month today with Luis Miguel Valdez, an American playwright, screenwriter, film director and actor. Regarded as the father of Chicano film and playwriting, Valdez is best known for his play Zoot Suit, his movie La Bamba, and his creation of El Teatro Campesino. His hard work and long creative career have won him countless awards including numerous LA Drama Critic Awards, Dramalogue Awards, Bay Area Critics Awards, the prestigious George Peabody Award for excellence in television, the Presidential Medal of the Arts, the Governor’s Award from the California Arts Council, and Mexico’s prestigious Aguila Azteca Award given to individuals whose work promotes cultural excellence and exchange between US and Mexico.

10/12/2026

Today we are celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month by featuring Esteban Hotesse. Hotesse was a black Dominican American United States Army Air Force second lieutenant and member of the World War II combat fighter group, the Tuskegee Airmen. He was the only Dominican-born member of the Tuskegee Airmen. He died in a B-25 Mitchell crash in July 1945.

10/11/2026

Our Hipanic Heritage Month celebration continues today with a feature on Sylvia Mendez. She is an American civil rights activist and nurse who was at the center of the court case Mendez v. Westminster, in which a federal court ruled in the mid-1940s that the school segregation of Hispanic children was unconstitutional. Mendez v. Westminster paved the way for the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education.Thurgood Marshall, who represented the plaintiffs, used the equal protection argument that was argued in Mendez v. Westminster to successfully argue that all racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. Sylvia Mendez went on to become a nurse, and in 2011 President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her civil rights work.

10/10/2026

Today our Hispanic Heritage Month feature is Dr. Helen Rodríguez-Trías, an American pediatrician, educator and women's rights activist. She was the first Latina president of the American Public Health Association, a founding member of the Women's Caucus of the APHA, and a recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal. Her understanding of how social and economic inequality shapes people’s health guided her career.

10/09/2026

We continue celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with today's feature, Lin-Manuel Miranda. A Pulitzer Prize, Grammy, Emmy, Tony Award-winning songwriter, actor, producer and director, Miranda is the creator and original star of Broadway’s Hamilton and In the Heights. He is also the recipient of the 2015 MacArthur Foundation Award and 2018 Kennedy Center Honors.