COVINGTON, Ky. - If you’re having problems notifying the City of Covington about infrastructure problems through our iWorQ Service Request app and online portal, it’s not you.
It’s us ... or rather problems with the app.
The City’s IT department is working to fix the problem, and we’ll let you know when that is accomplished.
Covington implemented ...
Ritte’s Corner in Latonia is an example of a neighborhood business area eligible for The Ripple Effect.
COVINGTON, Ky. - Create a plan to revitalize your neighborhood business area, and the City of Covington will invest $300,000 to help implement the public part of that plan.
But there’s a catch: You have to compete with other Covington areas to “win” the City’s...
COVINGTON, Ky. - Drop a pebble in a pond, and it creates a ripple. But toss in a whole bunch of bigger rocks at the same time, and it creates a series of waves that reach higher, travel further, and last longer - resonating long after the rocks themselves have disappeared.
That’s the motive behind a new initiative in the City of Covington that will focus the City’s resources and...
COVINGTON, Ky. - An estimated 1,100 people converged on the Latonia Shopping Center early Saturday afternoon for the City of Covington’s first “Touch a Truck” event.
The star of the show were the trucks - all the vehicles used by public service agencies in the City (and those which respond to the City) to keep Covington residents safe and infrastructure properly maint...
Volunteers planted almost 50 trees along sidewalks in the Austinburg neighborhood in April. Now it's Latonia's turn.
COVINGTON, Ky. - A dozen reasons to help plant streetscape trees in Latonia on Saturday:
You like to dig in dirt.
You need exercise.
Moonrise doughnuts and Bean Haus coffee.
Mother Earth needs you.
Your neighbors are cool - ...
The top of this streetscape silver maple tree in Latonia sports the classic V shape after being pruned several years ago to protect utility lines from being damaged.
COVINGTON, Ky. - A tree company hired by Duke Energy will be in Covington beginning Thursday to clear branches away from power lines, and Crystal Courtney - the City’s Urban Forester - is bracing for phone calls.
“Th...
DEADLINE DATE TO APPLY
4PM on FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2018
This position is under the general administrative direction of the Public Works Director and responsible for hiring and managing and direct supervision of full-time staff and temporary workers of the division. This division is responsible for litter control, graffiti removal, street cleaning and leaf pick up. Staff may also provide assistanc...
Another one bites the dust: Grounds-keeper Chad Hyland of the Public Works Department’s Urban Forestry Division grinds away the stump of a streetscape Bradford pear tree on Ashland Avenue destroyed by a late August storm.
COVINGTON, Ky. – The City of Covington plans to replace “missing” trees in sidewalk areas along a couple of Latonia streets in October, and rest ass...
COVINGTON, Ky. - An ongoing sewer project in the Eastside neighborhood will change how residents on the eastern-most block of Ninth Street get to their houses starting Monday.
Specifically, Ninth Street will be blocked off at Prospect Street at the floodwall. Thus Ninth Street will cease to be one-way west, and homeowners will need to get to their homes from Greenup Street, according to the...
COVINGTON, Ky. - Hands Pike in South Covington will be closed to traffic at Edwin Drive during business hours next week.
Road crews from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet will be digging out ditches on the side of the road, working on shoulders and doing pavement repairs, officials from the Cabinet’s Northern Kentucky office said.
People who live east of Edwin Drive can ...