COVINGTON, Ky. – Next Tuesday, the Friends of Peaselburg Neighborhood Association’s Independence Day Parade continues its 50-year tradition as Covington’s only July 4th parade.
The event, also billed as one of the region’s oldest Independence Day parades, traces its beginnings to the early 1960s, when neighbors on Euclid Avenue who were hosting an Independence Day party ...
Signs, link below show schedule to move vehicle
COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington’s Public Works Department will begin its annual summer cleaning of residential streets on Monday, July 10 – and as usual, the City has a link where you can find out when you need to move your car.
The “summer cleaning” will run until Aug. 31, with each street “swept” over a tw...
Improvement follows 2019 report’s advice: Tackle City’s points of entry
COVINGTON, Ky. – The south side of a Pike Street building provides a veritable “canvas” for a vibrant new “welcome” to The Cov.
Consider the mural at 533 Pike St. indicative of more aesthetically appealing transformations that will eventually come to other primary points of entr...
COVINGTON, Ky. – Behold this weekend in The Cov.
Where else can you unload your dated and dead electronic burdens at an annual e-waste event … sit on the riverfront with tacos and salsa (the dance AND the fiery goodness) … embrace the polka … see nature through another person’s aperture … and wind down with goats and stretching. At a library.
Good stuf...
A project funded last year was the painting of basketball courts at Randolph Park. (Photo courtesy of The Center for Great Neighborhoods).
Enhancements include historical markers, banners, and flowerpots
COVINGTON, Ky. – Seven neighborhood groups received funding from the City of Covington for improvements ranging from adopt-a-pot landscaping enhancements to welcoming banners to dog w...
The Fourth Street (Veterans Memorial) Bridge carries Ky. 8 across the Licking River between Covington (left) and Newport, near the Licking’s confluence with the larger Ohio River. (Photo used courtesy of Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, District 6.)
Goals: ‘Signature’ look, bike and pedestrian lanes
COVINGTON, Ky. – Having briefed Newport’s elected officials re...
At today’s swearing in, from left to right: Covington Police Chief Brian Valenti, Wade Webster, William Gonzales, Maxwell Brinkley, and Covington Mayor Joe Meyer.
New hires: two with experience, criminal justice graduate
COVINGTON, Ky. – Mayor Joe Meyer administered the oath of office to three new police officers today and stressed the Police Department’s traditio...
Annual drop-off event helps residents recycle responsibly
COVINGTON, Ky. – A free drop-off recycling event will be held in Covington on Saturday, June 24, to help residents get rid of computer equipment and other electronics, foam packaging, and confidential documents that need to be shredded.
The 8th annual event – called the E-Waste Recycling Event – will be held as usual...
COVINGTON, Ky. – This weekend is about freedom and fatherhood (and a lot of other stuff too).
If you’ve noticed the flags with a bold starburst in the center flying in Covington, that’s the Juneteenth flag. The City raised those flags in MainStrasse Village and Randolph Park in recognition of the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in this count...
Juneteenth flags were recently raised in Randolph Park and on the Sixth Street Promenade in MainStrasse Village, shown here.
COVINGTON, Ky. – Offices at City Hall will be closed on Monday, June 19, as the City of Covington celebrates its newest official City holiday for the second year in a row.
To help in that celebration, the City’s Economic Development Department is sponsoring...