Almost 100 trees also recycled during effort to save landfill space
COVINGTON, Ky. – Nearly 100 discarded trees and almost 650 pounds of non-working lights from Covington were kept out of landfills this past holiday season – and when you include the “dead” strands of lights collected by the City’s partners across Northern Kentucky, that number expands fivefold.
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Mailed program guide includes youth soccer, Halloween walk, Easter egg hunt,
Fishing Derby, softball & hoops
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The ages for the youth soccer league have expanded to ages 4 to 7 since this release was published. That has been changed in the text below.)
COVINGTON, Ky. – The 2022 Covington Parks & Recreation Guide will be landing in your mailbox soon, and it...
Flanked by their chief transportation advisers, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, seated at left, and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear sign the Brent Spence Bridge project agreement. That’s Ohio Department of Transportation Director Jack Marchbanks at far left, and Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Sec. Jim Gray at far right.
City praises Beshear, DeWine after joint Brent Spence announcement
COVINGTON, ...
From left to right: Covington Police Chief Rob Nader, Jeffrey S. Tolliver, Steven E. Willis III, Kennedy R. Sizemore Jr., Ryan Wielgus, Michael Martinez, and Covington Mayor Joe Meyer.
New hires include military veterans, transfers from law enforcement agencies
COVINGTON, Ky. – Before Mayor Joe Meyer administered the oath of office to five new police officers today, he encouraged them ...
Board of Commission Meeting Minutes 02/08/2022
Doug Meyung, a Fleet mechanic with Covington’s Public Works Department, works on a since-retired cruiser in this file photo.
$500K budget amendment earmarked for badly needed cars
COVINGTON, Ky. – A Covington police officer recently started to follow and pull over a driver who appeared to be impaired – but then the cruiser’s lights and siren malfunctioned.
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COVINGTON, Ky. – Did you know that the first recorded Mardi Gras street parade in New Orleans took place in 1837? Decades later, six men organized a rather clandestine Mistick Krewe of Comus and held a parade with the theme, “The Demon Actors in Milton’s Paradise Lost” and held a lavish ball. Demons on parade. Now that’s something to behold.
Some theories maintain ...
Draft Agenda
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COVINGTON, Ky. – It’s all hands on deck as a City of Covington Public Works crew began assembling the floodgate at Madison (Avenue) Overlook at 8 a.m. this morning.
Crews prepped the area yesterday, cleaning out footer holes for the gate’s anchors to be installed today. This morning, a crane began lifting the first of the many metal pieces into place.
The effort to keep out...
COVINGTON, Ky. – New space and jobs for a downtown branding firm and the renovation of a building on a highly visible corner in Lewisburg for a law office are on tonight’s agenda of the Covington Board of Commissioners.
The Commission’s consent agenda includes three rent and façade improvement incentives through the City’s award-winning Small Business Program. City offic...