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Disc golf baskets cut off, stolen

A disc golf “basket,” prior to installation. Police, Parks & Rec seeking tips related to felony theft COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington officials are seeking help in solving a brazen theft overnight of a dozen brand-new disc golf “baskets” from Devou Park worth more than $5,000. Just a few days after the dedication of the Covington Disc Golf Course on Saturday, ...

FC Cincinnati invests in The Cov

Photo 1: Covington’s partnership with FC Cincinnati Foundation will bring both a kid-size mini pitch to Austinburg  and the organization’s Soccer Unites youth program. This photo provided by FCC Foundation is from a ribbon-cutting from a mini pitch previously built in Price Hill, Cincinnati.  Photo 2: The proposed site plan for the renovation of Austinburg Neighborhoo...

Road closings, ‘creative madness’: City webpage tells how to navigate BLINK

The 2019 BLINK festival included light shows and music. 4-night festival returns to The Cov, Cincinnati on Oct. 13-16 COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington’s downtown will be the scene of creative madness and a sensory blitzkrieg when the wildly popular BLINK art and light festival returns to the region for four evenings next week. The free outdoor festival spans the Ohio River, enc...

‘Good with math,’ process oriented

Among new Finance Director Webb’s goals: More online pay options, readable financial reports COVINGTON, Ky. – The City of Covington’s new Finance Director hopes this news release isn’t the least read in the City’s history. After all, Steve Webb points out, it is “about the new finance guy.” To Webb, however, numbers are supremely interesting. And...

Lucinda, Latonia, Big Cis & Circus Mojo

COVINGTON, Ky. – How on earth is it already the last weekend of September? Is time accelerating at a maddening speed? Oh well. Get out and make the most of your time this weekend. Lots of good stuff to do – and even opportunities to do good – throughout The Cov. Beer for a cause Looking for good beer, good folks, and a good cause? Head to Braxton Brewing Company for Brea...

Six incentive recipients a diverse list

Maki Mono, a specialty Japanese sushi and sake restaurant at 715 Madison Ave., was approved for a rent subsidy through the City's Small Business Incentive Program. Next deadline to apply for Small Business help is Friday COVINGTON, Ky. – A Japanese sushi and sake restaurant. A local photographer. A 3D design business. A legacy furniture restoration business. A new headquarters. A n...

New online portal modernizes process to get homebuyer, repair help

COVINGTON, Ky. – New software adopted by the City’s Federal Grants/Housing Assistance Division enables applications to be made online for separate incentive programs that help people buy homes in Covington and make urgent repairs of unsafe conditions. The change modernizes the application process to make it more convenient, efficient, quicker, and paperless, Federal Grants Manager J...

Trees, old cars & a ‘wayfaring thespian’

COVINGTON, Ky. – Tonight the fall equinox ushers in the arrival of Libra, the sign of balance and reflection, corresponding with a time of equal darkness and light (That whole balance thing, you know), and all over the world, the length of day and nighttime hours will be darn near equal. Back in the day, (like 2,000 years ago), Pagans picked apples and had a harvest festival known as Mabo...

Kids will have fun and learn at Read Ready Covington’s free Early Childhood Fall Festival on Saturday

Keller Warehousing & Co-Packing, an Early Childhood Fall Festival sponsor, will provide a truck at the festival for children to have a touch-a-truck experience. COVINGTON, Ky. – A petting zoo. Interactive games. A touch-a-truck. And plenty of prizes. Families will find all that and more at Read Ready Covington’s Early Childhood Fall Festival at 4293 Winston Ave. on Saturday, ...

Get to know your trees

Volunteers planted street trees in Latonia in 2019. Austinburg Tree Tour part of Great Outdoor Weekend COVINGTON, Ky. – Sometimes the best classroom is beneath a wide blue sky and a canopy of leaves. To that point, here’s an opportunity this weekend in The Cov to get outside and learn about trees. On Saturday, City of Covington Urban Forester Patrick Moore and Kenton County Ex...
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