(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is another in a series of recycling tips from the City of Covington's Neighborhood Services Department, Solid Waste & Recycling Division.)
COVINGTON, Ky. – Cincinnati’s Kroger Co. is the nation’s largest operator of traditional supermarkets, and its Simple Truth natural foods brand is skyrocketing in popularity.
The drawback for recycl...
Residents must move cars on their assigned days
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Since this release was published, the City has simplified the process through which to find out when your street is going to be swept. Just go to the link to the map below and type in your address.)
COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington’s Public Works Department will begin its annual spring cleaning of residential streets on A...
Drivers Alvis Barber, left, and Danny Peters of the City of Covington Public Works’ Right-of-Way Maintenance Division lay asphalt on High Street today.
COVINGTON, Ky. – High Street between Altamont Road and Parkway Avenue in the Botany Hills neighborhood will be closed much of today as Public Works crews lay new asphalt.
Crews milled off the old asphalt on Friday in preparation f...
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is another in a series of recycling tips from the City of Covington's Neighborhood Services Department, Solid Waste & Recycling Division. It was supposed to be distributed on "Wednesday.")
COVINGTON, Ky. – Eating take-out has become a great way to support local businesses and decrease face-to-face interaction amid the pandemic. But while that trend has been gr...
Among other things, Covington has used federal Community Development Block Grant program funds to rebuild broken sidewalks on Scott Boulevard near Sixth Street.
Public hearing on annual CDBG/HOME allocations on March 25
COVINGTON, Ky. – The federal CDBG and HOME programs have brought the City of Covington about $20 million over the last 10 years to invest directly in neighborhoods &nda...
This diagram from the 2013 Brent Spence Bridge Project Options Analysis shows the width of the proposed new project.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following op-ed was signed by the five members of the Covington Board of Commissioners.)
COVINGTON, Ky. – While we all recognize that the Brent Spence Bridge needs improvement, regional leaders who advocate for the current expansion plan on th...
Legend has it that the legendary Kentucky statesman Henry Clay had a hand in this massive and ancient ginkgo tree being planted near Behringer-Crawford Museum in Devou Park.
City to write 20-year master plan for urban canopy
COVINGTON, Ky. – Unlike … say … marigolds (which take only about eight weeks to go from seed to flower) trees take decades if not longer to mature. S...
The 11th Street bridge has been closed to vehicles for eight years, even as the companion span for pedestrians just to the north has remained open.
Deteriorated vehicle span over RR tracks demolished soon
COVINGTON, Ky. – Work to build a new pedestrian bridge over the CSX railroad tracks at 11th Street will begin this month, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announced today.
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Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources technician Adam Cecil releases 750 rainbow trout into Prisoners Lake. (For more pictures, see the City’s Facebook page @covingtonkygov)
State’s FINs program stocks Prisoners Lake with trout
COVINGTON, Ky. – With a turn of a pipe’s cap on the back of a truck’s cold-water tank, fishing options in Covington...
The top photo shows the “radiator grille” that once covered 614 Madison Ave. The bottom photo shows the two buildings – 641 Madison and 19 E. Pike St., which wraps around it on two sides – as they looked last fall. The middle photo is a conceptual rendering from WorK Architecture + Design that shows a restored turret.
Transformation to create hotel suites, bourbon ‘ex...