CAPTIONS: Photo 1: Hendy prepares to tear up and level the brick pavers near the Sixth Street Promenade. Photo 2: Hendy Inc. recently fixed curbs along Tibbatts in Latonia. Photo 3: The new ADA curb ramp near St. Augustine Church in Peaselburg. Hendy Inc. to preserve historic look while leveling surface COVINGTON, Ky. – A contractor for the City of Covington started teari...

A rehab projected funded by the City’s HOME program will add affordable housing in the Latonia/Rosedale neighborhood.  Public participation period underway for federal grant programs COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington is asking the public to weigh in on how the City should invest several million dollars in federal grants aimed at improving housing and infrastructure and reducing hom...

Report card to residents highlights historic deal on bridge, tax cut & progress on job training, IRS site, new City Hall COVINGTON, Ky. – A construction trades school and its preservation trades complement. A 23-acre development in the urban core. A new City Hall better suited for helping residents. A health sciences lab. Homeownership. The City of Covington took so many steps...

City would partner with Tri-State Trails on creating strategy to make The Cov more bike friendly COVINGTON, Ky. – Wanting to take a strategic and feasible approach to making Covington more bike friendly, the Board of Commissioners tonight will vote on partnering with the advocacy group Tri-State Trails to create a bicycle transportation plan for Covington and its neighbor, Newport, o...

Trucks are loaded and ready to go. That’s municipal grounds worker Corey Lohstroh filling tanks with a brine solution earlier today. With ‘nasty’ storm almost here, Public Works will do all it can to keep streets safe COVINGTON, Ky. – The road salt dome is full (minus what’s been loaded into trucks). The trucks themselves have been outfitted with plows and ...

KYTC/ODOT seeking feedback on pending issues for Brent Spence Corridor revamp COVINGTON, Ky. – Are you curious how (and where) a revamped Brent Spence Bridge and its completely new companion span will separate local commuters from pass-through travelers? Do you have thoughts and/or strong feelings about noise barriers, landscaping, pedestrian walkways, and the “look” o...

State project will mean safer, less congested Brent Spence COVINGTON, Ky. – How drivers enter Interstate 71/75 in Covington just south of the Brent Spence Bridge will change at 5 a.m. Thursday as construction of the $8.8 million “Texas Turnaround” edges closer to completion, state highway officials announced today. The state-funded project will reduce accidents and relieve ...

Photo 1: A scene from last year. (That’s Prince Baker, James Payne, and Bryan Snider, from left working Greenup Street). Photo 2: Crews from the General Maintenance Division recently installed leaf-collection equipment on trucks. From left: seasonal laborers Dallas Hedger, Don Housley, and Zach Ackman, laborer Ryan Gribble, light equipment operator Lonnie Johnson, and laborer Prince Baker...

Parks and Facilities Maintenance Supervisor Brad Schwenke welds a disc golf basket into place, while Laborer V Tim Moore (below) touches up the paint on one of those borrowed from Boone County. Help from Boone County Parks, others critical COVINGTON, Ky. – The 18 “baskets” don’t match, but the Covington Disc Golf Course is put back together, and playable. Three day...

A disc golf “basket,” prior to installation. Police, Parks & Rec seeking tips related to felony theft COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington officials are seeking help in solving a brazen theft overnight of a dozen brand-new disc golf “baskets” from Devou Park worth more than $5,000. Just a few days after the dedication of the Covington Disc Golf Course on Saturday, ...