The 2019 BLINK festival included light shows and music.
4-night festival returns to The Cov, Cincinnati on Oct. 13-16
COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington’s downtown will be the scene of creative madness and a sensory blitzkrieg when the wildly popular BLINK art and light festival returns to the region for four evenings next week.
The free outdoor festival spans the Ohio River, enc...
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...
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...
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...
Familiar restrictions for fireworks display address safety, traffic, parking
COVINGTON, Ky. – Large crowds will again flock to the riverfront and viewing spots around Covington to watch the annual Labor Day weekend fireworks on Sunday, Sept. 4, so the City and its Police Department are putting in place familiar restrictions designed to ensure safety and orderly traffic flow.
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Future Galileos Program’ on Tuesday features reflector telescope
COVINGTON, Ky. – Interested in astronomy?
Covington Parks & Rec is holding a “Future Galileos” event at Devou Park on Tuesday evening (tomorrow, Aug. 9), having been gifted a sophisticated telescope and suddenly securing limited-time access to a “sun shield.”
At the event, Co...
COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington’s pool season will end Sunday not with a “bang” but a “bark” when Goebel Pool closes to human swimmers and opens to four-legged paddlers wearing fur coats.
Covington Parks & Rec’s annual “Dog Day” takes place from noon to 3 p.m. at the pool.
“The Cov has a lot of dog owners who like to take their pet o...
Among the places illuminated during the BLINK festival in 2019 was the building at 501 Madison and the London Police mural at Fourth Street and Scott Boulevard.
1.3MM attended colorful regional light, art show in ‘19
COVINGTON, Ky. – When the massive and wildly popular BLINK® Art, Light & Culture Festival returns to Covington on Oct. 13-16, organizers say its footpri...
Backpacks event to benefit K-12 students
COVINGTON, Ky. – If your children need supplies for the coming school year, Northern Kentucky Harvest can help you out.
The non-profit has 1,032 backpacks containing paper, pens and pencils, and other grade-appropriate school supplies to give out to K-12 students – it just needs to know who to give them to.
The organization is asking pa...
Allison Rotella was a winner in 2019 with this photo of the then-closed bridge. (Photo used with permission).
Public to help select top images in six categories
COVINGTON, Ky. – Get your cameras out and head to the river.
July will see the return of the “Focus on the Roebling” photo contest hosted by The Covington-Cincinnati Suspension Bridge Committee (CCSBC), which sho...