COVINGTON, Ky. – This recent cold spell has given us cabin fever. If you, like us, NEED to get outside this weekend, The Cov has plenty of events to grab your interest.
For example, you can help tend to a pollinator garden … take a stroll and savor history, beer, and tasty food … and learn about wildflowers on a guided tour in Devou.
Of course, “inside” is goo...
The band Son del Caribe performed at Behringer-Crawford Museum’s “Latino Picnic” in 2019.
Museum engaging Covington’s increasingly diverse community
COVINGTON, Ky. – A little over two years after hosting a well-attended Latino Picnic, Behringer-Crawford Museum is organizing another event to build connections with Covington’s burgeoning Hispanic community.
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The ramp from Pike Street to northbound Interstate 71/75 will close for about six months starting Monday evening.
Temporary changes part of Texas Turnaround safety project
COVINGTON, Ky. – The beginning of a project to make the Brent Spence Bridge safer will mean the temporary closure of two interstate ramps in Covington starting at 9 p.m. this coming Monday (April 4), weather permitti...
(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. – Knowing which containers can be recycled is one thing, knowing what to do with the lids is a whole ’nother challenge.
But it IS important: Lids handled...
Lulu Northcutt’s 1924 yearbook photo at the University of Kentucky. (Photo used courtesy of UK Rosenberg College of Law.)
City’s legal conference room to bear name of female legal trailblazer
COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington’s Lulu Northcutt made headlines in a March 6, 1929, article in The Kentucky Post newspaper by doing what lawyers generally do – she filed an acti...
Muhammed Owusu on his 2017 pilgrimage (hajj) to Mecca.
Owusu moving back to Virginia to be with wife, family
COVINGTON, Ky. – A month shy of his fourth anniversary with the City of Covington, Finance Director Muhammed Owusu is returning home to Virginia – not to take another job but to retire.
“It’s time to hang up my boots,” Owusu said. “I’m tir...
Signs, link below show schedule to move vehicle
COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington’s Public Works Department will begin its annual spring cleaning of residential streets on Monday, April 4.
How well the streets get cleaned will depend on the cooperation of residents moving their cars (to the other side of the street, into their driveways, around the block) so the street sweeper can opera...
COVINGTON, Ky. -- Radius Construction and its subcontractors continue turning vacant warehouse space at 1730 Russell St. into the new home of Covington’s Public Works Department.
Here was the view earlier today of the main space, where trucks will be stored. Despite supply chain challenges related to construction material, City officials hope to move in this spring.
The Depar...
COVINGTON, Ky. – How cruel: We were teased with a sunny, 70-degree day on Monday, and now we’re staring down the possibility Saturday of snow.
Sigh.
But while the weather may not be consistent, good live music in The Cov is. And there’s lots of it this weekend. In fact, much (most) of what’s happening around town this week involves music. Good. Local. Live. Music.
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