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...

Early literacy campaign goes public Thursday COVINGTON, Ky. - The City of Covington next week will formally launch a childhood literacy initiative designed to mobilize the entire community around getting the City’s youngest kids off to a better start in their school careers.   To understand the urgency of this issue, Mayor Joe Meyer says, it helps to know a few numbers.   One is...

COVINGTON, Ky. - This weekend, the list of things to do in #LoveTheCov is brought to you by the letter “B.”   (OK, so we ripped off Sesame Street to find a common theme this week. It works.)   There’s Big Head Todd & the Monsters at the Madison Theater. Bodybuilding and big guns (aka big biceps) at the Convention Center. There’s Braxton’s Breeders’...

Trick or treat in the City of Covington will remain 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 31, as set by the City Commission on Oct. 9.

COVINGTON, Ky. - If you’re not in full autumn celebration mode, you will be come Monday.   From Halloween parties (seemingly everywhere) to harvest festivals, #LoveTheCov is rocking October and early November traditions this weekend. Note this is the last weekend to shop the Covington Farmers Market in an outdoor setting in 2018 - next week it moves inside.   But if you don’t...

COVINGTON, Ky. - It's getting colder outside, obviously, so it's time in Covington to do some cool weather things.   Halloween parties, trail clearing, neighborhood cook-outs, painting pumpkins. Those things. And of course the weekly Covington Farmers Market is offering fall kinds of crops.   Of you could learn how to fuse glass to make a sun-catcher, or mount a black scorpion for displa...

COVINGTON, Ky. - An estimated 1,100 people converged on the Latonia Shopping Center early Saturday afternoon for the City of Covington’s first “Touch a Truck” event. The star of the show were the trucks - all the vehicles used by public service agencies in the City (and those which respond to the City) to keep Covington residents safe and infrastructure properly maint...

COVINGTON, Ky. - Trick or treat hours have been officially set in the City of Covington: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Oct. 31 (it’s a Wednesday this year).   (Yes, we know that Halloween is still about three weeks’ away, but we’re already receiving inquiries at City Hall, so we decided to reassure the City’s youth that trick or treating IS being officially sanctioned again this y...

COVINGTON, Ky. - We tried to find a theme for a weekend that features a cornhole tournament ... a tree planting ... a scary movie in a cemetery ... a huge show-and-tell event for public works and public safety trucks ... roller derby ... a candidates' forum ... a Masquerade pub crawl ... and a stage reading of a local playwright's work.   But then we just gave up.   Suffice to say that t...

Volunteers planted almost 50 trees along sidewalks in the Austinburg neighborhood in April. Now it's Latonia's turn. COVINGTON, Ky. - A dozen reasons to help plant streetscape trees in Latonia on Saturday:  You like to dig in dirt.  You need exercise.  Moonrise doughnuts and Bean Haus coffee.  Mother Earth needs you.  Your neighbors are cool - ...