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Do you have what it takes?

Sign up to take Covington Police exam this summer   COVINGTON, Ky. – The Covington Police Department is looking for people who want to protect and serve their community with honor and professionalism.   With positions to fill and more expected to open up, the Department is working to create a pool of candidates by offering an entrance exam this summer – the first step in bec...

Current Brent Spence expansion plan fatally flawed

This diagram from the 2013 Brent Spence Bridge Project Options Analysis shows the width of the proposed new project. (EDITOR’S NOTE: The following op-ed was signed by the five members of the Covington Board of Commissioners.)  COVINGTON, Ky. – While we all recognize that the Brent Spence Bridge needs improvement, regional leaders who advocate for the current expansion plan on th...

Board of Commission Meeting Minutes 03-09-21

Board of Commission Meeting Minutes 03-09-21

Covington firefighters set to defend title

The Covington Fire Department’s 2020 Fight for Air Climb team, with the gear they wore to climb 45 flights of stairs. 3-time Fight for Air Climb champs seeking donations  COVINGTON, Ky. – A new “playing field” and challenge will greet Covington firefighters April 25 when they defend their American Lung Association Fight for Air Climb title for the third time in a row....

Keeping things tangle-free

(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is another in a series of recycling tips from the City of Covington's Neighborhood Services Department, Solid Waste & Recycling Division.)   COVINGTON, Ky. – By now you know you should NOT put plastic bags and film in your City of Covington recycling cart.   That’s because the bags wrap around the rollers that serve to sort the recycling – just ...

Forestry survey kicks off writing of tree strategy

Legend has it that the legendary Kentucky statesman Henry Clay had a hand in this massive and ancient ginkgo tree being planted near Behringer-Crawford Museum in Devou Park. City to write 20-year master plan for urban canopy  COVINGTON, Ky. – Unlike … say … marigolds (which take only about eight weeks to go from seed to flower) trees take decades if not longer to mature. S...

Road closed, floodgate installed

A bronze statue of James Audubon at Riverside Drive and Shelby Street is slowly finding itself surrounded by the rising waters of the Licking and Ohio rivers. The second photo shows Chief Little Turtle. The third, the other end of Riverside Drive. And the fourth and the fifth, the Madison Overlook floodgate. As Ohio River rises, Public Works takes steps  COVINGTON, Ky. – With the rising...

11th Street to get new pedestrian bridge

The 11th Street bridge has been closed to vehicles for eight years, even as the companion span for pedestrians just to the north has remained open.  Deteriorated vehicle span over RR tracks demolished soon  COVINGTON, Ky. – Work to build a new pedestrian bridge over the CSX railroad tracks at 11th Street will begin this month, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announced today. &n...
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