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YMCA future: Hotel Covington addition

An artist’s rendering of the renovated site shows the restored turret. Bourbon trailhead, office space, jobs to go in historic space   COVINGTON, Ky. - Two historic buildings on one of Covington’s most visible intersections will be developed by the same people who created Hotel Covington.   After several weeks of buildup, the City of Covington, Salyers Group, and vR Group tod...

Turkey twisting & Tannenbaum

(EDITOR’S NOTE: “#Weekend in LoveTheCov” is being published on Wednesday this week because we don’t feel like working tomorrow. Next week, this regular feature returns to its regularly published regular time slot.)   COVINGTON, Ky. - We can read your mind, right this second:   You're thinking, “oh no, annoying relatives are coming to town...

The mystery deepens

COVINGTON, Ky. -- Landscape and maintenance worker Cory Herron, left, and technician Hector Klette from Covington's Public Works Department attached this banner today to the side of the buildings at Pike Street and Madison Avenue, deepening the public speculation over what is going in the spot. The City bought the buildings in late October "with the intention of reselling the property to a develop...

4 decades of public safety dedication retires

From left, newly promoted Captain Justin Wietholter, Chief Rob Nader, newly promoted Assistant Chief Brian Valenti, and retiring Assistant Chief Brian Steffen listen as the Board of Commissioners praised Covington’s police department as “the best police force in Kentucky.” Police, fire assistant chiefs praised as mentors  COVINGTON, Ky. - In an evening filled with effusive p...

New top deputy from Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Soon-to-be-Tennessee transplant Bruce Applegate begins Dec. 9 as assistant city manager in Covington. Assistant city manager hired with former Covington mayor’s help COVINGTON, Ky. - More than 140 people applied to be Covington’s new assistant city manager.   When the process was over, the candidate who emerged - the one deemed most qualified and the “best fit” by e...

Thanksgiving at City Hall a 2-day holiday

COVINGTON, Ky. -- “Happy Thanksgiving” a few hours early from the folks here at City Hall - exactly 400 years after the first Thanksgiving celebration was allegedly held in Virginia ... 230 years after President Washington proclaimed the first nationwide celebration ... and 80 years after President (Franklin D.) Roosevelt affixed a permanent date to the national holiday (changing ...

Board of Commission Meeting Minutes 11-26-19

Board of Commission Meeting Minutes 11-26-19

Thanksgiving: No delays in garbage collection

COVINGTON, Ky. - The remains of that fantastic Thanksgiving Dinner (well, we hope it turns out “fantastic”) won’t sit in your garbage container this week any longer than it normally would.   Garbage collection in the City of Covington will occur on regularly scheduled days this week: Rumpke drivers will be following the normal routes, and the holiday should cause no delays o...
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