COVINGTON, Ky. - The images feature cartoon drawings of adults reading to children ... and soon they’ll be seen on posters, bookmarks, and stickers all over Covington.
It’s all part of a community-wide mobilization launched tonight to use reading to better prepare Covington’s children for kindergarten.
Read Ready Covington is the name unveiled tonight for the childh...
A 10-month process led by a global firm to create a vision for the sprawling IRS site, in a critical part of downtown, will soon be underway.
COVINGTON, Ky. - An intensive process to assess the potential of the soon-to-be vacant 23 acres that make up the IRS site, and to set a vision for developing it, will take about 10 months and get under way in earnest right after the holidays.
Tha...
COVINGTON, Ky. -Troy McCain spun the wheel of his Kenworth T350 dump truck and almost took out the orange cones guarding the narrow lane he was maneuvering through.
“I thought I lost it for a minute,” he said, laughing as the uneven pavement and sharp turns caused him to bounce up and down inside the truck’s cab.
For McCain, a light equipment operator in the City of Covi...
Board of Commission Special Meeting Minutes 11/8/18
COVINGTON, Ky. - Expect delays if you’re driving north on Interstate 71/75 in Covington on Saturday.
The right two lanes of the Brent Spence Bridge will be closed from 7 a.m. to about 6 p.m. so crews can do a permanent fix to a previously temporary repair of bridge joints, according to the Northern Kentucky office of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.
The work will also ...
COVINGTON, Ky. - There’s no obvious theme for events this weekend in #LoveTheCov, so we’re not going to attempt any rhetorical gymnastics or semantic contortions in an attempt to be clever.
Suffice to say there’s a wide array of fun things to do, from the annual return of a much-loved holiday train display (and a little White House Christmas history) to a new beer honoring...
COVINGTON, Ky. - Covington isn’t a big-box shopping mall kind of place.
One of the City’s strengths and appealing qualities is its eclectic collection of unique, small businesses, with retailers who sell everything from bagels to books and curated home décor to woodcrafts.
To call attention to these local businesses and the personal, “authentic” experie...
COVINGTON, Ky. - The $875,000 reconstruction of the western entrance to Covington’s riverfront to make it safer and more accessible to pedestrians took another leap of progress today in a very visible way.
Workers with Riegler Blacktop poured concrete today to form one side of the roadbed for the rebuilt Johnston Street as it turns the corner onto Third Street.
The project incl...
COVINGTON, Ky. - You own a business in Covington and you’ve seen the influx in visitors to the urban core (measured at well over 90,000 people in the month of October).
But you want to know more:
What days of the week see the most visitors?
What time of day?
Are these visitors new to Covington, or have they been here before?
What areas do they visit?
And, most impo...
COVINGTON, Ky. - The City of Covington is asking that its churches, schools, and any other building with bells to toll them at 11 a.m. Sunday to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day.
The “Bells of Peace” is a nationwide campaign to mark the centennial remembrance of the ending of fighting in World War I, the armistice being signed “on the 11th hour, of the...