An outdoor dining and drinking area on Seventh Street is created each evening from on-street parking near Braxton Brewing Co.’s taproom and Parlor on Seventh, McK’s Chicks, and Rich’s Proper Food and Drink restaurants.  City extends pandemic-related ReCov outdoor seating campaign,  allows heaters   COVINGTON, Ky. - Up Over Bar owner Amy Kummler has great appreciat...

Board of Commission Meeting Minutes 09-22-20

COVINGTON, Ky. - Voters will have three different ways to vote this year as elections officials react to challenges posed by COVID-19.   Please see the chart above for important information from Kenton County Clerk Gabrielle Summe, which has been updated from an earlier chart with locations of drop box locations for absentee ballots.   In addition, Summe has compiled an easy to chec...

DBL Law Managing Partner Bob Hoffer takes a bite out of the Monarch Building annex. (Photo courtesy of DBL Law) $11.3MM Monarch Building rehab to create home for DBL Law   COVINGTON, Ky. - With a ferocious bite from an excavator’s “claw,” DBL Law Managing Partner Bob Hoffer ripped off part of a concrete block and brick wall, officially breaking ground on the $11.3 million pr...

COVINGTON, Ky. - COVID-19 still has much havoc to wreak and lives to damage. But this weekend in The Cov gives us hope that - despite the need for caution and care - fun can still be had.   From theater to pop-up art, a gallery opening to a Mexican cuisine-book event, some neighborhood cleanups to a holiday celebrated 6 months late, here are an array of events that will make going back to wor...

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(Photo from the Friends of Covington) Friends of Covington announcing annual winners via livestream   COVINGTON, Ky. - Forget the gold statuettes.   If you own a home or business in Covington, what you want is a Friends of Covington Beautification Award banner to be hung on the outside of your building for years to come.   Tonight at 7 p.m. (brought to you via YouTube livestreaming&...

'Covington Connect’ targets digital divide for students, their families COVINGTON, Ky. -- Over 400 free, refurbished desktop computers were given to families of Covington schoolchildren earlier this week, the first distribution event held as part of the "Covington Connect" initiative to demolish the digital divide here.   Cars lined up in the parking lot in front of the old Valu...

  Zapata Cantina joins internationally-themed dining scene in historic spot COVINGTON, Ky. - After months of buildup, on Wednesday it officially happened: Covington has a new restaurant named after a Mexican revolutionary and folk hero and co-owned by a veteran restaurateur who was in 2019 was named Ohio Restaurant Association’s Restaurateur of the year for southern Ohio.  &nb...

  Contact:            Steve Arlinghaus, Executive Director Telephone:      (859) 491-5311 Email:                 sarlinghaus@hacov.org Website:           www.hacov.org&nb...