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Leaves & kickball

Think you have a lot of leaves to rake up? Covington’s Public Works Department today began its annual tour across the city, picking up the mess of autumn on streets with trees in the public right of way.   Manning the vacuum on Greenup Street in this picture this morning is seasonal Prince Baker; blowing the leaves are, from left, seasonal Patrick Reynolds, laborer IV James Payne,...

'Nightmare' & a sensitive zombie

COVINGTON, Ky. – Halloween isn’t just taking a sharpened object to a harvested orange cultivar of a gourd or hoping your neighbor this year gives out more than Dum Dums and Tootsie Roll Minis (guilty!)   If you really want to expand your horizons, get on the Internet and start reading about Samhain, Allhallowtide, Totensonntag, Hop-tu-Naa, and Nos Galan Gaeaf.   But enough o...

New fund lets public buy in to Parks & Rec

The redevelopment of Peaselburg Park – the second City park/playground finished on an overlapping rehab schedule – relied in large part on community input. Covington, Horizon Community Funds partner to build confidence  for private donations toward activities, facilities   COVINGTON, Ky. – It doesn’t have its own irreverent TV show, but what’s known as Park...

Vote now, or Nov. 3

COVINGTON, Ky. -- You can vote now in Kenton County at one of two places: the Kenton County Government Center in Covington and the Independence Senior Center (hours and addresses below). Or you can vote on Election Day, but note that your precinct location has likely changed. Click HERE to see the new locations. In addition to state and national races, Covington voters will be electing four C...

The Cov on the radar

COVINGTON, Ky. -- When Cincinnati Magazine compiled its list of the region’s “most powerful business leaders” for its second-annual Cincinnati 300 issue this year, only two elected leaders in the entire region made the Nonprofit & Government section. Covington Mayor Joe Meyer is one of those two. The magazine’s editor-in-chief, John Fox, wrote in his column at the b...

Leaf pickup begins Monday

Look here to see when your street is scheduled   COVINGTON, Ky. – “Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree,” wrote English poet Emily Bronte some 200 years ago … but then she didn’t have to rake all those falling leaves. If she had, the “speaking” might have included the words of sailors instead of poets.   Ho...

Junk the junk mail

(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is another in a series of recycling tips from the City of Covington's Neighborhood Services Department, Solid Waste & Recycling Division.) COVINGTON, Ky. – Recycling is great, but prevention is better! Instead of letting junk mail and unopened magazines pile up, go to the source and get off those mailing lists before the junk mail comes your way. A few ways to h...

Get rid of your old tires for free

A similar waste tire event for Kenton County residents sponsored by the county and the Kentucky Division of Waste Management two weeks ago collected hundreds of tires. Drop-off event Saturday solves problem for Covington residents   COVINGTON, Ky. – Oh, the plight of worn-out tires.   Left in the corner of the backyard, they collect water and breed mosquitos.   Stuck in the c...

Skeleton staffing

The pandemic has forced many organizations and companies to work with skeleton staffing. That’s not true at the City of Covington’s Public Works Department.  Or is it?  Here, light equipment operator Joe Rump and his bone-man colleague – he who shows up during Halloween season – sweep the streets in the Monte Casino neighborhood.

Steeles & strolls

COVINGTON, Ky. – So we typically publish this on Thursday evening, but … well … it didn’t happen. The good news is that there’s all sorts of things to do in The Cov this weekend, including a one-mile fun loop through a park this afternoon, an outdoor movie, a “Tiny” Concert, a 5K and live art.   Goebel Getdown today Get yourself to the Goebel Getdow...
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