Vacant Property Incentive  to help create office, retail space (EDITOR'S NOTE: An early version of this release inadvertently and erroneously listed addresses on Willard Street and Highway Avenue as having received this incentive.) COVINGTON, Ky. – Since its construction in 1865, the year Abraham Lincoln began his second term, the cornerstone building at 401 Scott Blvd. has...

Look here to see when your street is scheduled (and when to move your vehicles) 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 instea...

Photo: Left to right, Chief Brian Valenti, Jacob Noe, Mayor Joe Meyer, Courtney Harkless, and Phouthakone  Homphothichack. 2 re-hires and a new recruit sworn in today COVINGTON, Ky. – Mayor Joe Meyer administered the oath of office to three police officers today at City Hall. For Phouthakone Homphothichack and Jacob Noe, it’s a return to serving the community as law enfor...

COVINGTON, Ky. – Friday the 13th and a spectacular solar eclipse on Saturday would seem enough for one weekend, but we don’t do “adequate” in The Cov. This week offers up art workshops, trail tidying, early Halloween fun, a musical, an awards ceremony, and a wine festival (and that’s not all), so no sitting home bemoaning that you’re bored. Get out there and ...

Covington Forestry program expands shade canopy in certain neighborhoods COVINGTON, Ky. – If you live in one of 12 neighborhoods listed below and want a free tree to plant in your yard – a big tree, not a tiny “whip” sapling – then act fast. Thanks to a Duke Energy Community Impact grant, Covington’s Forestry Division has 75 trees to give away, and th...

COVINGTON, Ky. – With the Oct. 15 deadline for payment falling on a Sunday this year, Covington property owners will have until the end of the day Monday – Oct. 16 – to pay their 2023 property taxes. Residents can pay their taxes online, by mail, by phone, or in person during business hours at City Hall, 20 W. Pike St. Payments sent in the mail must be postmarked Monday or bef...

COVINGTON, Ky. – Seems like a good weekend to get going on your Halloween decorations, right? Lucky for you there’s a great pumpkin sale happening on Saturday, and anyone who knows anything about Halloween knows it all starts with pumpkins. There’s also a banned book festival where you can celebrate with an act of rebellion by purchasing an armful of books that someone somewhe...

COVINGTON, Ky. – It’s a weekend to demonstrate why you’re prideful about your homemade chili and to stock the bar with a brand-new bourbon (and a birthday bourbon, at that). Ghosts and gratitude are hanging abound as well. As always, our standard brand of spectacular live music pulses through The Cov this weekend, there’s a family movie night happening, beer combines wit...

Annual resurfacing to bring smoother driving in 13 neighborhoods COVINGTON, Ky. – All or part of 29 streets in Covington are about to get a smoother surface. Almost 62,000 square yards of asphalt will be laid 1½ inches thick on the streets as part of a $927,540 contract with Riegler Blacktop Inc. that will get underway next week in the Westside neighborhood. Riegler Blacktop ...

COVINGTON, Ky. – A bit of mystery defines the weekend. There’s a fundraising event for The Carnegie that features CEOs and local business leaders who can actually play and sing rock & roll like pros. Could it be the corporate world is actually full of former teen garage band members? Leads in high school musicals? The other mystery has to do with someone – or something ...