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Entries for March 2020


City public safety: We’ll be there for you

But residents should note small changes in procedure   COVINGTON, Ky. - Covington’s police and fire departments are implementing small procedural changes to increase protection from the new and extremely contagious strain of coronavirus hitting the nation, but those changes won’t interfere with the high level of service that residents have come to expect.   “Our primary...

City: Beshear’s closing of dining rooms, bars ‘devastating … but necessary’

  Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announced aggressive new measures to limit public contact across the state, including Covington, during his live-streamed press conference this morning, one of numerous he’s held in the past couple of weeks. Unemployment benefits rules to be loosened during virus fight  COVINGTON, Ky. - Covington officials are urging local businesses to comply ...

City Hall lobby closed

Mayor: Follow experts’ guidance on avoiding gatherings   COVINGTON, Ky. - The City of Covington today announced aggressive new steps - including closing the lobby of City Hall - to protect residents and employees by limiting face-to-face contact in response to the worsening COVID-19 pandemic.   Saying “health experts know what they’re doing,” Mayor Joe Meyer urged...

Free meals for Covington students

Covington schoolchildren can pick up free meals at almost a dozen locations Monday through Friday on days that schools are closed.   See the attached flyer for details on the program set up during temporary school closures in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Stay healthy & safe

COVINGTON, Ky. - We will not be publishing our #Weekend in LoveTheCov narrative events calendar this week.   One, we appreciate the opportunity to distract and entertain. But our usual jocular and irreverent approach (and any attempt at gallows humor) would be tone deaf given the magnitude of the historical crisis that is enveloping us with the global spread of the coronavirus that causes the...

Board of Commission Caucus Meeting Agenda 03-17-20

  Draft Agenda

City buying IRS site

Chance to reshape ‘our identity and economics’ long into the future   COVINGTON, Ky. - The City of Covington will soon own 23 acres of land once described by an East Coast commercial developer as one of “the most exciting land redevelopment opportunities between Baltimore and New Orleans.”   In an emergency meeting held today and called on Wednesday, t...

Board of Commission Special Meeting Minutes 03-12-20

Board of Commission Meeting Minutes 03-12-20

City preaching awareness, caution on COVID-19

Covington officials taking steps to mitigate spread, impact   COVINGTON, Ky. - Pay attention and begin taking commonsense protective steps.   That’s the message from the City of Covington to its residents and employers as a global outbreak of acute respiratory disease - called COVID-19 after the new strain of coronavirus that causes it - has spread into the Commonwealth.   &ld...

Board of Commission Meeting Minutes 03-10-20

Board of Commission Meeting Minutes 03-10-20
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