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Community Profile: Orleans Union Kentucky

Today's Picture of the Day is the Orleans subdivision in Union Kentucky. The Orleans neighborhood is located just off of US 42 in Union. The Orleans community was one of the first new home neighborhoods to develop along the redesigned US 42 on the way to Union. The beautiful community sits just off of US 42, along Longbranch Road. Orleans is the home to upscale residential homes and condominiums. The neighborhood is also the home of the Orleans Park, one of the city of Florence's great family parks.

 

Today's Boone County News:

Summer enrichment program at Florence Elementary

Bring dogs to "Paws for Cause"

Value engineering holds potential for Boone County Schools

Scholars honored by Governor Beshear

Union studies community building

US Playing Card welcomed

Beckfield celebrates 25 years

Boone County officer graduates

Boone homemakers meet

Arboretum friends meet

Kentucky High School football begins

Six year old's lemonade stand goes big time

Nicky's opens new restaurant in Florence

BCHS office creates warm welcome

Florence job fair for vets September 10th

Saul's homer carry Freedom to victory

Community Profile: Oakbrook

Today's Community Profile takes a look at one of the original suburban regions in the Florence area, the Oakbrook community. This famous sign can be seen along Route 18 between Florence and Burlington. The Oakbrook neighborhood was one of the first large scale suburban residential neighborhoods in the area. The development of Oakbrook was one of the beginnings of the expansion of Florence's residential population into the outlying areas around the city.

The Oakbrook community connects Route 18 to Pleasant Valley Road at the other end. The neighborhood features homes, condominiums and apartments. There are small sub-neighborhoods throughout the area where each type of residences exist. There are also a few neighborhoods that join into the Oakbrook area, like the Thunder Ridge/Silver Creek development.

Oakbrook is known for its beautiful trees along the main road and for the variety of housing it contains. The neighborhood is situated around the Boone Links golf course and many of the homes have golf course views. It is a great family community with a park and plenty of sidewalks for walking. When the weather is warm, you can always see lots of people walking up and down the sidewalks of Oakbrook Road.

The area has grown rapidly over the years. On the Route 18 side their are all sorts of restaurants, banks and retail stores. Development in that area now includes a Kroger retail plaza and the new Boone County Library branch across Route 18. Since the neighborhood has now expanded all the way to Pleasant Valley Road, there is now a retail marketplace on that end. You can now grab groceries, do some banking, buy some products and have a pizza dinner on that end of the road. When the Pleasant Valley Road improvements take place, this end of the area should continue to grow.

Today's Boone County News:

Boone gets $30 mil in road projects

Beshear speaking at lunch for Boone Schools

Fire training center expanding

Wallace signs with Georgetown

Boone County School news

Derik Lewis is the Remke Student Achiever for April 5, 2009

New homes get thumbs up

Conner High School Band annual mulch sale