Careful maneuvering, perseverance required on tight city streets
COVINGTON, Ky. – With scant inches of space between his mirrors and the parked cars on either side, Jason Roberts slowly maneuvered his Ford 250 down 28th Street, his plow scraping the road free of freshly fallen snow.
It was nearly midnight, Roberts was almost six hours into what promised to be a 16-hour shift, ...
COVINGTON, Ky. – Note to Covington residents looking to get rid of construction/home renovation debris and other bulk trash items:
The Covington Transfer Station will be closed Friday to drop-off traffic starting at noon and all day Saturday temporarily as Rumpke Waste & Recycling, which runs the complex, makes improvements to the site.
But Rumpke will be accepting bulk tr...
City welcomes project but fears impact on businesses
COVINGTON, Ky. – The Suspension Bridge will be reduced to one lane of traffic beginning Monday and closed to vehicles altogether starting Feb. 15, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announced today.
The closure will last up to 10 months as part of a $4.7 million restoration project to fix crumbling sandstone on the north tow...
Lonnie Johnson, a light equipment operator with Covington’s Public Works Department, prepares to grab another load of salt at the City’s complex on Boron Drive this morning as crews continued to treat roads.
COVINGTON, Ky. – The snow fell, the wind at times raged, and the slush on the ground froze and then refroze as surface temperatures fluctuated … but the snow-fighters ...
City seeks firms for demolition, environmental hazards removal
COVINGTON, Ky. – Three underground fuel tanks. A 3,000-gallon underground concrete “vault.” A sprawling one-story brick facility whose “footprint” stretches across most of 17 acres. Asbestos. Lots of asphalt.
And cavernous physical plant rooms filled with wires, compressors, greasy gears, gen...
Wi-Fi connectivity and the strength of the network signal depend upon a number of geographic and construction factors.
Completed Covington Connect initiative eroding ‘digital divide’
COVINGTON, Ky. – Thousands more Covington families have free access to the Internet, courtesy of the all-but-completed “Covington Connect” initiative whose goal is to smash the digi...
The City is hiring landscape and maintenance workers for the year. Here, a permanent employee in the Public Works Department, James Johnson, knocks down weeds on the riverfront.
Public Works, Solid Waste & Recycling hiring ‘seasonals’
COVINGTON, Ky. – Want a job working in the fresh air of the great outdoors instead of being “chained” to a desk or stuck on a facto...
(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. – Some people love the ad “circulars” delivered weekly to their doorstep. After all, they’re chock full of information about stores, sales, and services.
But some people aren’t so fond, ...
Food containers that look like “tubs” can now be recycled in Covington.
Rumpke expands ‘acceptable’ list in Covington’s curbside program
COVINGTON, Ky. – The “Can this be recycled?” quandary just got easier in Covington, at least when it comes to plastic:
Containers for food products like butter, yogurt, and applesauce – aka &ldqu...
Duke pruning this week in West Latonia
COVINGTON, Ky. – A contractor for Duke Energy is pruning trees throughout West Latonia this week, and that work will include the removal of nine or so “problem” trees in the public right of way, City of Covington officials said.
The trees to be removed are either structurally weakened, full of decay, or simply the wrong tree fo...