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, ...
Photo 1: Covington’s partnership with FC Cincinnati Foundation will bring both a kid-size mini pitch to Austinburg and the organization’s Soccer Unites youth program. This photo provided by FCC Foundation is from a ribbon-cutting from a mini pitch previously built in Price Hill, Cincinnati.
Photo 2: The proposed site plan for the renovation of Austinburg Neighborhoo...
Open House to showcase new campus in Peaselburg
COVINGTON, Ky. – Consider this a (somewhat) belated change of address notice: Covington Public Works has a new home.
Crews from the department that maintains the City’s infrastructure settled into their new address at 1730 Russell St. in Peaselburg a little over a month ago, gradually moving trucks, equipment, invent...
Tando Way in South Covington is the first street tackled by Riegler Blacktop.
Annual resurfacing project to bring smoother driving
COVINGTON, Ky. – All or part of 22 streets in Covington are about to get a smoother surface.
Some 80,000 square yards of asphalt will be laid 1½ inches thick as part of a $995,000 contract that got underway this week on Tando Drive in South Coving...
Signs, link below show schedule to move vehicle
COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington Public Works crews will begin the annual summer cleaning of residential streets on Monday, July 18 … and, as always, how well the streets get cleaned will depend on residents moving their cars.
“We sweep streets regularly not only to make them look good but also to keep trash and debris out of our s...
O’Rourke Wrecking continues to demolish the 17-acre former IRS “Flat Top” located less than a block south of the Ohio River.
COVINGTON, Ky. – KZF Design Inc. will lead the team of architects, engineers, urban planners, and consultants whose drawings will lay the foundation for public infrastructure that will ready the 23-acre former IRS site for private development. ...
Covington Mayor Joe Meyer appeared on WCPO’s early morning news show in 2021 to talk about Covington’s concerns about the proposed design of the Brent Spence Corridor project. The bridge can be seen in the background shrouded with tarp during the painting and maintenance project.
City gains storm water fix, street upgrades, project liaison,
and fewer buildings torn down
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Day 2 of road resurfacing project shows fast progress
COVINGTON, Ky. -- Just over a day into the project, look how far Prus Construction has gotten in replacing the deteriorating brick pavers at the intersection of Madison Avenue and M.L. King Jr. Boulevard/12th Street.
Here are four photos, one each facing north, south, east and west.
The bricks – just within the intersec...