Covington’s Small Business Program has been used over the last few years to help entrepreneurs and small businesses like The Roost in Latonia.
City offering help renovating exteriors, paying startups’ rent
COVINGTON, Ky. – Small businesses in Covington have until Friday, Jan. 29, to apply for the next round of City help in paying first-year rent or fixing up their exteriors.
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New Covington Police Officer Jacob Noe displays his new badge as Police Chief Rob Nader and Mayor Joe Meyer look on.
COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington’s newest police officer is a military veteran who has served the public by enforcing the law and protecting citizens in Kenton County for 25 years.
Jacob Noe, who retired from Kenton County Police in 2016 and has patrolled in the city of ...
4 Kenton cities pledge continued focus throughout year
COVINGTON, Ky. – If you missed the Martin Luther King Jr. Day virtual event on Monday evening sponsored by Covington and sister cities Independence, Erlanger, and Elsmere, you can still watch it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x67WXRDCgDc&feature=youtu.be
It’s just 24 minutes long but full of candid assessment:...
Raoul Cunningham has been fighting against injustice and inequality for over six decades.
4 cities’ virtual King Day celebration the start of regional conversation
COVINGTON, Ky. – A civil rights leader who started fighting for equality and justice at age 14 and has continued that fight for over six decades will be the guest speaker during a virtual event Monday night spons...
Covington, 3 other cities to hold MLK Jr. virtual event that night
COVINGTON, Ky. – Note that offices at City Hall at 20 W. Pike St. will be closed Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day but will reopen at 8 a.m. Tuesday.*
We also invite you to a virtual event Monday evening to celebrate the life and message of Dr. King, the minister and activist who became one of America’s mos...
But other City, federal help available
COVINGTON, Ky. – One of the City of Covington’s grant programs set up to help businesses survive financially during the pandemic has come to end with the last funds allocated.
The $625,000 Emergency Business Assistance Program was funded with federal CARES Act money funneled through the City and $250,000 from the Kenton County Fisca...
Wi-Fi connectivity and the strength of the network signal depend upon a number of geographic and construction factors.
Completed Covington Connect initiative eroding ‘digital divide’
COVINGTON, Ky. – Thousands more Covington families have free access to the Internet, courtesy of the all-but-completed “Covington Connect” initiative whose goal is to smash the digi...
Protective Life Corp. will be taking up 67,000 square feet of space in the RiverCenter l office tower, left, on the Covington riverfront.
Major relocation reflects Covington’s changing economy
COVINGTON, Ky. – There was a time – more than a century and a half long, in fact – when manufacturing dominated Covington’s economy, the city’s job base solidly sitt...
The City is hiring landscape and maintenance workers for the year. Here, a permanent employee in the Public Works Department, James Johnson, knocks down weeds on the riverfront.
Public Works, Solid Waste & Recycling hiring ‘seasonals’
COVINGTON, Ky. – Want a job working in the fresh air of the great outdoors instead of being “chained” to a desk or stuck on a facto...