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Trees, old cars & a ‘wayfaring thespian’

COVINGTON, Ky. – Tonight the fall equinox ushers in the arrival of Libra, the sign of balance and reflection, corresponding with a time of equal darkness and light (That whole balance thing, you know), and all over the world, the length of day and nighttime hours will be darn near equal. Back in the day, (like 2,000 years ago), Pagans picked apples and had a harvest festival known as Mabo...

Board of Commissioners Legislative Meeting Agenda 9/27/2022

Draft agenda, legislation, and minutes from the previous meeting.

Kids will have fun and learn at Read Ready Covington’s free Early Childhood Fall Festival on Saturday

Keller Warehousing & Co-Packing, an Early Childhood Fall Festival sponsor, will provide a truck at the festival for children to have a touch-a-truck experience. COVINGTON, Ky. – A petting zoo. Interactive games. A touch-a-truck. And plenty of prizes. Families will find all that and more at Read Ready Covington’s Early Childhood Fall Festival at 4293 Winston Ave. on Saturday, ...

Get to know your trees

Volunteers planted street trees in Latonia in 2019. Austinburg Tree Tour part of Great Outdoor Weekend COVINGTON, Ky. – Sometimes the best classroom is beneath a wide blue sky and a canopy of leaves. To that point, here’s an opportunity this weekend in The Cov to get outside and learn about trees. On Saturday, City of Covington Urban Forester Patrick Moore and Kenton County Ex...

City hosts NKY Code Collaborative

Event put shared issues, solutions on table for inspectors  throughout Boone, Campbell, and Kenton COVINGTON, Ky. – Code Enforcement Officers throughout three counties came together at Covington City Hall on Tuesday for the NKY Code Collaborative, where – in-between a breakfast of coffee and pastries from Point Perk and lunch from Goodfellas Pizza MainStrasse – they sh...

Cleaning up at summer’s end

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Confused about what you can and can’t recycle, not to mention the “where” and “how”? Let Covington’s Solid Waste & Recycling team break it down for you.) COVINGTON, Ky. – Whether you’re shutting down your pool, clearing out beach bags, ridding your backyard of summer party remnants, or still cleaning up the back-to-sch...

Pumpkin ale & poets

COVINGTON, Ky. – Hypothetically speaking, let’s say you just spent almost two weeks off the grid canoeing in the Canadian wilderness. Your party saw almost no one, but you did witness the Northern Lights (3x) ... discover pictographs and petroglyphs … had semi-close encounters with howling wolves … heard the “whack!” of beavers’ tails and the tremolos...

26 years’ experience to guide Chief Valenti

Community outreach, constant improvement among priorities of Police Department’s new leader COVINGTON, Ky. – Like his predecessor, Covington’s new police chief began his career as a patrol officer in the city 25 or more years ago and knows every facet of both the community and the department. That extensive experience, Chief Brian Valenti says, has equipped him with: ...

City maintains A1 credit rating

Wall Street affirms Covington’s financial stability COVINGTON, Ky. – The City has received an A1 credit rating from Moody’s Investors Service for the third year in a row. The A1 rating is one of the highest ratings a debt issuer can receive, classifying Covington’s general obligation bonds as investment grade and subject to low credit risk. The rating strengthens the ...
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