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Grab your skates; Jimmie’s Rollerdrome turns 70 Melissa Reinert
Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
ELSMERE – At age 79 Ruth Whitehead doesn’t do much roller skating anymore. She hasn’t forgotten, however, the sensation of dancing with wheels on her feet and the wonderful friendships she made while skating at Jimmie’s Rollerdrome. “I really enjoyed making so many friends and the dancing times,” Whitehead, of Wilder, said. She frequented Jimmie’s regularly from 1954 to 1961 and revisited several times for reunions with her roller rink friends. “I am still close friends with some of the people that were in the skating club we had,” she said. “We were a close-knit bunch and still are to this day.” And Jimmie’s Rollerdrome, which opened on New Year’s Eve 1948, still stands and celebrated 70 years at the end of 2018. “I don’t know why I’ve continued the business all these years,” owner Marie Mullins, 92, said. “I’m just not ready to retire and my kids help operate the business. It’s a family thing.” Mullins believes her husband, who founded Jimmie’s Rollerdrome, would be proud. “The roller rink was just something he wanted to do,” she said. “He had planned it all during his service in (World War II). He grew up in Boone County and moved to the west coast where he learned to skate. He loved it and wanted to bring it here.” So, James Mullins did. He built the rink himself. When it was all finished, he didn’t have a name for it.
An art rendering shows what the new Mt. Zion (Ky. 536) interchange of exits and on ramps to I-75 will look like. PROVIDED/KENTUCKY TRANSPORTATION CABINET
I-75/71 Union exit project scheduled to start in 2019 Chris Mayhew
Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
UNION – Construction scheduled to start in 2019 to remake two I-75/71 interchanges at Mount Zion and Richwood roads is expected to last two years. The $180 million 75 Crossings project was fast-tracked in June when $67.4 million was awarded to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet as part of President Donald Trump's pledge to rebuild America's infrastructure. The grant from the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) grants program required construction to start within 18 months of the June 8 award date.
The schedule Interstate widening: Building one additional lane each north on I-75/71 will be a contract awarded in January, said KYTC District 6 spokeswoman Nancy Wood. The additional lanes will be added from U.S. 42 interchange in Florence to Mount Zion Road between the 179- and
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180-mile markers, Wood said. SUPPORT JOURNALISM: Subscribe today to get access to all of our coverage. Construction on the new northbound lane will be in 2019. Construction on the new southbound lane will be in 2020. Mount Zion Road interchange: The two-year construction project to turn the existing exits and on-ramps into a double crossover diamond interchange will start after contracts are awarded in April 2019. In the new design, two directions of traffic at the interchange cross to opposite sides of the road so left-turning vehicles will get unimpeded access to the highway. The only other double crossover diamond is in Lexington. Richwood Road (Ky. 338) interchange: Awarding a construction contract is tentatively scheduled to happen in 2019, Wood said. Remaking Richwood Road into a double crossover diamond interchange will be a two-year construction project once work starts. The project includes a new on-ramp area servicing industries and neighborhoods including Triple Crown, Wood said. The project will also eliminate two
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Richwood area at-grade railroad crossings by creating highway overpasses, Wood said.
Money matters About $27.6 million has previously been invested from the state and other federal highway funds, Wood said. Federal funding will total about $120.7 million – a total that includes the $67.4 million from the June INFRA grant, she said. Kentucky will add $35.2 million more, she said. Boone County will pitch in $2.5 million. The county has received a pledge of $500,000 from private businesses in the Mount Zion and Richwood area too, Wood said. The new interchanges are needed in part because of expected growth in daily truck traffic through this logistics corridor, states the INFRA grant project justification. "The project will enhance economic vitality by reducing peak travel times through the addition of auxiliary lanes, and interchange improvements along a congested freight corridor," stated the INFRA project justification.
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