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For 27th time in 28 years, Covington earns top certificate for financial reporting

COVINGTON, Ky. - When investors, creditors, bankers, and leaders want to get a thorough look at a City’s finances, they look to its “caffer.”   The Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, or CAFR, is an extremely detailed book that - in the words of those who compile it - “includes all statements and disclosures necessary for the reader to obtain a thorough understandin...

Bami Goreng & Vinyasa Flow

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Yeah, this was supposed to be published Thursday night. Logistical problems, y’all.)   COVINGTON, Ky. - This weekend is a paean to Covington’s small businesses and to being a good citizen:   First, a deli celebrates its one-year anniversary, an indie bookstore marks its national holiday, a fancy restaurant reopens, and a new fitness place takes a unique ...

Covington firefighters in Texas with Laura

4 from City on 85-member hurricane response team   COVINGTON, Ky. - Four Covington firefighters were due to arrive in Texas this afternoon to help conduct search-and-rescue efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura, a Category 4 storm being billed as one of the strongest to ever hit the United States.   Laura made landfall overnight, pummeling the Louisiana coast with 150 mph winds and...

Internet project seeks donations

A family picked up their free computer during an earlier event in Houston in which Comp-U-Dopt was involved. (Photo from Comp-U-Dopt) ‘Today’-famous Houston group raising $$ for Covington Connect  COVINGTON, Ky. - As featured on the “Today” show this morning (see below), the Houston non-profit helping Covington attack the “digital divide” is see...

Finance window closed until Monday

COVINGTON, Ky. - The City of Covington Finance Department’s “front” window - where the public pays bills in person - is closed until Monday.   People can still pay bills online, through a user-friendly taxpayer portal, accessed directly HERE... by phone at (859) 292-2180 ... by mail (P.O. Box 643749, Cincinnati, OH 45264) ... or by dropping off payment i...

Property tax timeline delayed by 2 weeks

Pandemic continues to cause disruption   COVINGTON, Ky. - Covington property owners will have two additional weeks to pay their property tax bills this year, thanks to COVID-19.   The City’s Finance Department will mail bills Oct. 1, and payment is due by Oct. 31. In typical years, they’re mailed Sept. 15 and due Oct. 15, according to City ordinance.   The explanation fo...

E-waste & confidential documents

Volunteers prepare to recycle electronics and paper documents at the 2019 Electronic Recycling and Paper Shredding Drop-Off Day. The event saved almost 10 tons of e-waste and paper from going into landfills. Annual drop-off event Saturday enables safe disposal  COVINGTON, Ky. - Don’t throw away your electronics - they’ll just spend years in landfills leaking toxic chemicals. And t...

Board of Commission Meeting Minutes 08-25-20

Board of Commission Meeting Minutes 08-25-20

15 fires, 1 blame: Trash can no-no’s

A rash of fires in the back of Rumpke’s trucks recently have one cause: Dangerous and combustible items put into trash cans. (Photo from Rumpke Waste & Recycling) Rumpke reminders: What can, can’t go into garbage, recycling bins  COVINGTON, Ky. - The Rumpke garbage truck that caught fire across the Ohio River in Oakley on Monday makes the 15th such fire in Greater Cincin...
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