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, ...
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. ...