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Horcruxes & Hunchbacks

COVINGTON, Ky. - Question: How many words are in the seventh book of the Harry Potter series?   Answer: 198,227.   Well, that’s what wiki says - and if turns out to be one of the questions in Friday night’s Harry Potter trivia contest at Keystone Bar & Grill, well ... you owe us a sandwich. Or a beer.   That’s one event going on in Covington this weekend (...

Feds investigating packages sent to Diocese

Suspicious packages sent to the Diocese of Covington offices this afternoon were examined by the Cincinnati bomb squad. (Photo used courtesy of The River City News.)   COVINGTON, Ky. - Suspicious packages sent to the Covington offices of the Diocese of Covington have been turned over to the FBI and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service for investigation, Covington Fire Chief Mark Pierce said.&nb...

Singular motivation: Defend Covington

Covington Mayor Joe Meyer Covington Board of Commissioners Meeting Jan. 22, 2019   EDITOR’S NOTE: Covington Mayor Joe Meyer released a statement late Saturday in response to the harsh criticism the City of Covington was receiving on a national level over the video-taped confrontations in Washington DC.   At Tuesday night’s meeting of the Covington Board of Commissioners, the ...

Open house Thursday kicks off IRS site study

This picture of the IRS, surrounded by the black wrought-iron fence, shows the proximity of the 23-acre site to the RiverCenter complex (in the background). COVINGTON, Ky. - It will take years to figure out the future of the 23-acre IRS site, and that process starts in earnest Thursday evening.  Cooper Carry, an Atlanta-based global architecture and design firm, will be leading an open house ...

MainStrasse garage closed again tonight

  COVINGTON, Ky. - The parking garage at Fifth and Main streets in MainStrasse Village will be closed again tonight because of heavy ice.   The garage is part of the partially constructed RiverHaus Apartments complex, and developer Flaherty & Collins Properties had agreed last November to allow free parking on a temporary basis during evening hours after construction for the day was ...

Heavy ice closes MainStrasse garage tonight

Heavy ice will close the parking garage at 5th and Main streets tonight in MainStrasse Village. Here is the Main Street entrance to the garage, as it looked in November.   COVINGTON, Ky. - Attention visitors to MainStrasse Village: The parking garage at Fifth and Main streets that is part of the partially constructed RiverHaus Apartments complex will not be open tonight. Frigid temperatu...

Mayor Meyer: Covington ‘appalled’

March confrontation doesn’t represent City’s values COVINGTON, Ky. - Covington Mayor Joe Meyer released an op-ed today responding to events in Washington:   “Two days before the holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., an intense discussion took place following breakfast at a Catholic church in Covington’s urban core.   The crowd listened as five courageous...
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