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Deadline extended for softball registration

Games are played at Bill Cappel Youth Sports Complex.   COVINGTON, Ky. - The deadline for teams to register for Covington’s Adult Softball League has been extended until May 3 as a last-chance effort to keep the season alive.  “Participation in adult softball in Covington - just like across the country - has been steadily declining for years,” City Parks & Recreatio...

Ongoing survey focuses on customer service

  COVINGTON, Ky. - Here’s a reminder: The City of Covington wants feedback on interactions you’ve had with employees of City Hall.   The City’s website has a link to a short Customer Satisfaction Survey that includes a couple of questions, a numerical rating, and a place for comments.   About 100 people have used the survey so far to rate the City’s responsi...

Earth Day ’19 at City Hall: Small steps matter

City Hall’s new recycling receptacles accept these kinds of plastic bags and wrappers, similar to what the public can recycle at Kroger Co. stores.   COVINGTON, Ky. - When the late environmental warrior and author John Muir wanted to make a point about human impact on the environment, he said this: “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything ...

133 years later ...

A portrait of Ellen Battelle Dietrick hangs in the sitting room at the Covington Ladies Home, but outside its walls, few people are aware of her contributions, officials say.   Renamed ‘Battelle Lane’ salutes Covington Ladies Home founder   (EDITOR’S NOTE: The City of Covington on Friday will unveil a new name for the eastern-most tip of Seventh Street as it runs alongs...

International relations: South Korea & the Cov

A delegation of students and professionals from South Korea visited the City of Covington today to learn more about the City and its administration. The visit included a presentation and discussion with Mayor Joe Meyer about Covington and its economic climate and with City Manager David Johnston about the City’s governing structure and urban design. The d...

Need a job? Join the Public Works team

Seasonal laborer Derrick Humphrey in the Public Works Department mows grass in Devou Park. City has a variety of positions open  COVINGTON, Ky. - Like to work outdoors?   The City of Covington’s Public Works Department has a variety of open positions it’s looking to fill.   “It’s getting warmer, the grass and trees are growing, and there’s plenty of wor...

Euclidean vs. form-based?

4 chances to shape City’s new approach to zoning   COVINGTON, Ky. - The City of Covington is totally revamping its approach to zoning, and it’s urging the public to help shape the new plan at the beginning stages rather than react after the fact.   Anybody who lives, owns property or runs a business in Covington is invited to four events at the end of the month to offer opini...

Home-brewed beer, 10K eggs & Snow Palace

COVINGTON, Ky. - Obviously, Sunday will be filled with Easter services and Easter brunches.   And both Friday and Saturday offer events that every Covington kid looks forward to every year: the City’s egg hunt at Devou, Totter’s Otterville’s Eggstravaganza, and the opening of the Snow Palace.   But if you’re looking for something else to do, there’s a little...

Devou fishing hole’s 800 new whiskered friends

The first of 800 lbs. of hybrid catfish tumble into Prisoners Lake in Covington. State’s FINs program stocks Prisoners Lake with catfish   COVINGTON, Ky. - The newest inhabitants of Prisoners Lake in Covington’s Devou Park arrived this morning with an unceremonious splash.   Actually, with six sustained splashes.   The new arrivals are catfish, about 800 pounds of them, ...

Falling rock pieces force Suspension Bridge to close

COVINGTON, Ky. - The historic John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge will be closed to vehicles beginning at 4 p.m. today after sandstone fragments broke from the east side of the bridge’s north tower yesterday, state officials said.   In an email sent to the City earlier this afternoon, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announced that it was closing the bridge until further notice as a p...
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