Workers with Atkins & Stang Inc. today filled in a trench built to house utilities underground along an alley leading to the John R. Green Lofts construction site.
Disruption should last a few days
COVINGTON, Ky. - Seventh Street between Bakewell and Main streets will be closed to through traffic for a few days beginning Thursday as site preparation for the John R. Green Lofts project ac...
But officials say state pension mandates bode ill for future
COVINGTON, Ky. - Covington’s property tax rates for calendar year 2019 will remain the same for the third year in a row.
The Covington City Commission tonight approved rates of 0.327 for real estate and 0.349 for personal property - the same as the rates for calendar years 2017 and 2018.
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An award through the City of Covington Neighborhood Grant Program helped organizers host the Eastside Music & Soul Food Festival on Aug. 31. (Photo courtesy of Chuck Eilerman.)
Information meeting Thursday to explain tweaks to process
COVINGTON, Ky. - The City of Covington is kicking off the second round of its Neighborhood Grant Program with an information meeting Thursday to explain minor tw...
Assistant Fire Chief Chip Terry served in Covington for almost three decades. (Photo used with permission from Katie Woodring Photography.)
Registration open for PTS seminar Friday honoring late chief
COVINGTON, Ky. - The family of late Assistant Covington Fire Chief Chip Terry didn’t know what to expect a year ago when they organized the City’s first-ever seminar on post-trauma...
With help from a City of Covington rent subsidy, Olla restaurant will open at 302 M.L. King Jr. Blvd./12th St.
10 small projects in line for City's help
COVINGTON, Ky. - A new gourmet burrito restaurant. Two salons. An expanded shop for women's clothing, paper goods, and gifts. And eight new apartments in a space that once echoed with the sound of leather gloves pounding on heavy bags.
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Covington firefighters responded to a fire on Riverside Drive last year. (Photo used courtesy of Katie Woodring Photography)
City has 7 openings; must have at least 2 years’ experience
COVINGTON, Ky. - The Covington Fire Department is looking to hire seven firefighter/paramedics, but there’s a catch: You must have at least two years’ experience in a professional fire depart...
COVINGTON, Ky. - Our headline for this week’s narrative events calendar was going to be “Riverfront yoga & hilltop prayer” just because we liked the juxtaposition of geo features for those two events, but this is September and Oktoberfest, man, and we’d be guilty of burying the lead.
The lead - spelled “lede” in the journalism industry, btw ...
Crews from Prus Construction mobilized today to begin work on Riverfront Commons. A fence blocks access to the Madison Overlook at the floodgate opening.
Work underway on Riverfront Commons
After years of planning and searching for funding, site work began today on Phase II of Riverfront Commons.
The $6.54 million project will transform the riverfront in Covington, bringing a 1,350-s...
Covington’s Parks & Recreation brought yoga for kids to Randolph Park.
Master plan seeks input about activities, facilities
COVINGTON, Ky. - The mission of Covington Parks & Recreation is easily identified: Fun.
But defining “fun” - and identifying how the City division can best deliver on that mission to Covington families - takes a little more thought and ...
COVINGTON, Ky. - The Ohio River’s banks will explode with thundering booms and an aerial spectacle this weekend, with the annual Western & Southern/WEBN Fireworks and Riverfest.
But that’s not - as they say - the only game in town. There’s plenty else to do in #LoveTheCov, whether you like literature, local art, Russian symphony music, jazz and R&B, or mountain bik...