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Union plans to improve intersection lighting Work will be done at Frogtown Road, U.S. 42 By Stephanie Salmons ssalmons@nky.com
UNION — Union city leaders are continuing efforts to improve safety at a major city intersection. City commissioners recently voted to move forward to install additional lighting at U.S. 42 and Frogtown Road. This follows efforts by the city to improve another nearby intersection – U.S. 42 and Mt. Zion Road (Ky. 536). As a companion to the earlier project, “the one to the south is in need of lighting because of Ryle High School and students crossing that intersection,” city engineer Barry Burke said.
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That intersection is “a little bit more serious” in terms of lighting, he said. Four lights will be needed at that intersection, according to Burke. The city will be able to use three existing poles, including one that already has a light. A final pole and light will be placed on the northwest corner of that intersection, Burke explained. The total lump sum of the new lights at the Frogtown intersection is $4,747, while the cost of an additional light to be installed at the Mt. Zion intersection totaled some $2,750. “For less than $7,000, we have improved both of those intersections with safety lighting
For more about efforts to improve safety at a major Union intersection, see our video at http://bit.ly/unionlites.
for the citizens and residents of Union in the most cost-beneficial way.” According to Burke, there have been three fatalities in the vicinity within the last decade, “where the lighting at the intersection was less than desirable.” Last year, city officials hired local engineering firm KLH Engineers, who also studied the Frogtown Road intersection, to create a design plan for three new lighting poles at the Mt. Zion Road and U.S. 42 intersection to improve pedestrian safe-
The city of Union will improve safety at the intersection of Frogtown Road and U.S. 42 by installing additional lighting. STEPHANIE SALMONS/THE COMMUNITY RECORDER
ty – the cost of which would have approached $25,000 to $26,000. As previously reported in the Union Recorder, an existing light at that intersection will, instead, be replicated and located
Historical marker notes Morgan’s escape through Boone Confederate general was a popular Civil War figure io Oh
By Stephanie Salmons ssalmons@nky.com
UNION — When Confederate Civil War Gen. John Hunt Morgan escaped from an Ohio jail in 1863, he and companion Capt. Thomas Hines hopped a train to the Cincinnati area and took a ferry across the Ohio River to Ludlow before entering and making their way through Boone County on their journey south. Members of the Boone County Historical Society spoke recently to the Union City Commission about a new historical marker highlighting Morgan’s escape. In addition to verbiage detailing Morgan’s journey, the sign will also feature a map. “We wanted the map to show the escape route of Gen. John Hunt Morgan through Boone County,” Stephen Conrad, treasurer of the historical society, told commissioners. The sign, which will be installed sometime in April, will be located on a small parcel of land, a portion of which is owned by the city. Heading south on U.S. 42, the location is on the right side of the road, a short distance past the Boone County Public Library’s Scheben branch. “We went ahead and put the funds in to get the marker ... We would like for you guys to be very much a part of the celebration and dedication of the marker, as well as providing a good spot for it,” Conrad said. According to Bridget Striker, Boone County Public Library’s local history coordinator, Morgan and his family were from Lexington. He would come north through Kentucky into Ohio and Indiana for skirmishes “and to raid all along the Ohio River” before he was captured in the summer of1863, she said. Kentucky was a border state during the Civil War and was officially neutral.
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FLORENCE — On the day of the Cincinnati Horseshoe Casino Spiral Stakes at Turfway Park stars come out to shine. “It’s a chance to feel like a celebrity in Boone County,” said Union resident Autumn Tays on Saturday, March 23. The VIP tent, “the only way to go” according to Tays, with sparkling crystal chandeliers, men in suits, and women in fancy dresses and high-fashion hats, really could be mistaken for a classic Hollywood scene. Tays has attended Spiral Stakes for the last six years. The last two she’s represented her company, Triple Crown Hats, selling her locally famous handmade high-fashion hats. Although she loves the VIP tent, the fashions, the people, and of course the hats, she loves the horses best. “The only word I can think of to describe what it’s like see-
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Gen. John Hunt Morgan escaped from an Ohio jail in 1863 and traveled through Boone County on his way south. FILE
at the northwest corner (diagonally across the intersection), reducing the city’s costs and involving only one new light as opposed to three or four as originally planned.
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Elsa Gardner of Florence, Rachael Cain of Burlington and Suzy Garnder of Florence enjoy their time at the Spiral Stakes before the big race on March 23. MELISSA STEWART/THE COMMUNITY RECORDER
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