The new detention basin above the Lewisburg neighborhood.
Drainage project designed to hold back 3.5MM gallons of rain
COVINGTON, Ky. – From Mont...
Drop-off events help residents with problematic waste disposal
COVINGTON, Ky. - Five special drop-off events in the coming weeks - with one starting Thursday - will give Covington residents additional opportunities to properly dispose of tires, appliances, yard waste, old cleaning chemicals, and other problematic materials.
The events:
The Kenton County Public Works Fall C...
COVINGTON, Ky. - (ABOUT THE PHOTO): Workers from DWA Recreation Inc. install playground equipment in Barb Cook Park today as Phase I of the Latonia park’s long-awaited renovation is under way.
Phase I will add an array of play equipment for young children (including a “playstructure,” swings, and “sway bench”), concrete walking paths, and features for family co...
Contact: Steve Arlinghaus, Executive Director
Telephone: (859) 491-5311
Email: sarlinghaus@hacov.org
Website: www.hacov.org&nb...
Organizers galvanized by enthusiasm for ‘going green’
COVINGTON, Ky. - Organizers of the annual Recycling Drop-Off Day for Electronic Waste and Paper Shredding in Covington say the almost unbelievable numbers from the event have only one conclusion: People want to be “green.”
Just shy of 400 (398) cars dropped off material this year, almost triple the 160 that...
A family picked up their free computer during an earlier event in Houston in which Comp-U-Dopt was involved. (Photo from Comp-U-Dopt)
‘Today’-famous Houston group raising $$ for Covington Connect
COVINGTON, Ky. - As featured on the “Today” show this morning (see below), the Houston non-profit helping Covington attack the “digital divide” is see...
Volunteers prepare to recycle electronics and paper documents at the 2019 Electronic Recycling and Paper Shredding Drop-Off Day. The event saved almost 10 tons of e-waste and paper from going into landfills.
Annual drop-off event Saturday enables safe disposal
COVINGTON, Ky. - Don’t throw away your electronics - they’ll just spend years in landfills leaking toxic chemicals. And t...
A scene from the 2018 Great American Cleanup. (Photo from Keep Covington Beautiful)
April’s massive Great American Cleanup now fall event(s)
COVINGTON, Ky. - With two neighborhood cleanup events this weekend and more to come, pandemic-related restrictions are proving no barrier for tenacious Keep Covington Beautiful volunteers who #LoveTheCov.
In typical years, the Great America...
Monday is first ‘drawing’ for $2.5MM digital equity project;
donors, Wi-Fi ‘hotspot hosts’ sought
COVINGTON, Ky. - A random drawing on Monday will select 100 families of Covington schoolchildren to receive free computers, the first round of a massive giveaway that’s part of an aggressive $2.5 million plan to smash the so-called digital divide.
“Cov...
TJ Ball and Joe Koehl pick up trash, a rusted rim, and an old carpet during River Sweep 2020.
Cleanup limited to 30 volunteers, but they cleared 3.19 tons
COVINGTON, Ky. - Compared to the festival-like atmosphere of pre-pandemic cleanups, River Sweep 2020 was a tightly controlled, well-orchestrated, and almost choreographed event.
But if the volunteer army was (intentionally) small, t...