COVINGTON, Ky. – There is no excuse to sit home bored this weekend because it’s packed with options.
(Seriously, in well over three years of compiling this narrative weekend events feature, we’ve never seen so many compelling events.)
First, there’s food (the first Taste the Cov event AND the Taste of Latonia AND the Summer of Cov Night Bazaar), th...
Parks & Recreation is one of the divisions that report to the City’s Neighborhood Services director.
Apply by Sept. 30 to run City’s Neighborhood Services Department
COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington is looking for a community development leader to replace Ken Smith in running the City department jokingly referred to as “the island of misfit toys.”
Smi...
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is another in a series of recycling tips from the City of Covington's Neighborhood Services Department, Solid Waste & Recycling Division.)
COVINGTON, Ky. – Finally, there’s a recycling label that does not come with so much confusion.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the “chasing arrows” symbol (the triangle surrounding a numeral) was a...
Thursday event part of effort to ‘activate’ eastern half of city
COVINGTON, Ky. – The City’s economic development team is packing up and moving its operations to Austinburg Neighborhood Park on Thursday for a cookout and conversations it hopes lead to something big: Increased business activity, jobs, and local investment in an area it calls “the Eastern C...
(Photo 1) Volunteers from the Rotary Club of Covington and the Kentucky Waterways Alliance built a pollinator garden in Barb Cook Park this summer.
(Photo 2) The new Mayor's Monarch Pledge sign at Hands Pike Park in South Covington.
Saturday ‘tagging’ events part of effort to save iconic monarch
COVINGTON, Ky. – With firm but gentle pressure, Patrick Moore picked the...
COVINGTON, Ky. – The City of Covington has created a survey to pick the public’s brain on how to spend $35.9 million over the next 3 to 5 years.
The money can’t be spent on just anything.
Rather, it must be allocated within broad categories related to recovering from the economic and public health challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Oct. 31, the City must send...
Covington keeps rate the same 5th year in row
COVINGTON, Ky. – Property tax bills for the 2021 calendar year will be sent to Covington residents next week and payment is due by midnight Oct. 15.
Residents have five different ways to pay:
Online: HERE.
By mail: P.O. Box 122655, Covington, KY 41012-2655. If you’re paying by credit card thr...
On 20-year anniversary, peace remains elusive
COVINGTON, Ky. -- With their suddenness, violence, and scope, the horrific events that transpired 20 years ago tomorrow traumatized America.
Even here in Covington, 650 miles from the collapse of the Twin Towers after a coordinated terrorist attack, residents found personal connection to the tragedy beyond just the newly discovered sense of natio...
Torrential rains in June 2019 flooded streets and basements.
COVINGTON, Ky. -- If your basement floods during heavy rain, here’s a reminder that the City of Covington wants to make sure you’re on a list of addresses where flooded basements have been reported in the past.
Step 1: See if your address is on this list: https://bit.ly/3nhRUFh
Step 2: If NOT on the li...
COVINGTON, Ky. – Lederhosen will be de rigueur this weekend in MainStrasse Village while, over on the other side of town, our favorite farm girl from Kansas gets caught up in something much bigger than a twister, and there’s a bunch of singing and dancing about it.
But if you don’t like to quaff and scarecrows are too scary, there’s plenty of other options this...