This flowering cherry on Madison Pike shows that trees have aesthetic benefits as well as environmental ones.   COVINGTON, Ky. -- If you live in Covington, you’re eligible for a free tree from Taking Root and The Arbor Day Foundation.  The trees are 2- to 4-feet tall, come in a 5-gallon pot, and are to be picked up 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 27 at the World Peace Bell, 425 York St. in...

COVINGTON, Ky. -- As part of National Volunteer Week, a cleanup group from City Hall descended on Madison Avenue and Scott Boulevard on Monday, picking up litter and pulling weeds. About a dozen City government workers changed clothes near the end of their shifts, put on gloves, grabbed trash bags, and went out into the beautiful weather. The work - which was o...

Last year, volunteers worked to beautify 27 sites in Covington during the Great American Cleanup.  Friday is deadline for registering volunteer sites in Covington COVINGTON, Ky. - Day broke on April 28 last year to find groups of people wearing clothes they didn’t mind getting dirty heading out to corner parks, wooded areas, and neighborhood “problem spots” throughout Covin...

Covington’s Public Works Department needs about a dozen more landscape and maintenance workers. City needs about a dozen more workers COVINGTON, Ky. - Like to work in the great outdoors?  The City of Covington’s Public Works Department is looking to hire about a dozen or more landscape and maintenance workers for the year.   “We’re looking for people who show up e...

Neighborhood banners, like this one in Austinburg, are among the types of projects eligible for funding under a Covington grant program about to be unveiled.  New grant program for beautification initiatives available soon COVINGTON, Ky. - Neighborhood-oriented groups in Covington who want to improve the look of their surroundings will soon have additional and tangible help - grants of $250 ...

An open house to present proposed traffic flow changes attracted about 75 people.  Safety study returns streets to 2-way traffic in residential areas   COVINGTON, Ky. - About 75 people attended an open house Wednesday evening to give input on proposals that would return traffic flow on sections of Greenup Street and Scott Boulevard to two-way.   “There were definitely some str...

Safety proposal seeks input on making Greenup, Scott two-way   COVINGTON, Ky. - An open house tonight gives the public a chance to learn about and voice their opinions on a proposal to return traffic flow on sections of Greenup Street and Scott Boulevard to two-way.   The open house, at the Life Learning Center at 20 W. 18th St., will run from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., with a brief prese...

Volunteers helped the City of Covington plant over 80 trees of carefully selected species along Latonia’s streets last October. Covington’s commitment to green infrastructure saluted  COVINGTON, Ky. - Covington planted hundreds of streetscape trees last year, paid for by a federal grant and put in the ground with the help of dozens of volunteers who donated energy, sweat and mus...

A demo bike rack installed on Pike Street across from City Hall (and near the cut-through to Seventh Street) was in use much of today. COVINGTON, Ky. - People who use bicycles to get around Covington may soon have hundreds of places to lock up their bikes - not only in the downtown area but also in neighborhood business districts and parks.  The Covington City Commission directed staff to d...

Open house seeks comment on proposals to increase safety   COVINGTON, Ky. - Technically, the closest NASCAR track is 40 miles south, in Sparta, Ky. But many residents of Covington neighborhoods that border Greenup Street and Scott Boulevard say they only have to look out their front doors to see what amounts to a cutthroat race every rush hour - and a crowded one at that.   The volume ...