COVINGTON, Ky. - With this weekend’s events featuring pumpkins, voting, hiking, and BCM’s annual art festival and fund-raiser, it’s most definitely beginning to sound a lot like … autumn.
28 years of art
“Bid high and bid often” is an oft-urged mantra of auctions around the world. Come Sunday, the stunning talent of regional artists might inspire you to...
(EDITOR’S NOTE: All funds for this grant program have been committed and the City is no longer taking applications.)
COVINGTON, Ky. - The City of Covington has created another program to help businesses protect jobs and survive the pandemic - and this one offers up to $50,000 per grant.
Mayor Joe Meyer signed an executive order today creating the “Emergency Business Assistance Pr...
The building at 1928 Madison Ave.
Projects creating 1st-floor commercial space
COVINGTON, Ky. - Two projects that are renovating buildings to create first-floor commercial space and upper-floor apartments are getting financial help from the City of Covington toward exterior improvements.
The buildings - at 1131 Holman St. and 1928 Madison Ave. in the Westside and Austinburg neighborhoods, ...
Drop-off events help residents with problematic waste disposal
COVINGTON, Ky. - Five special drop-off events in the coming weeks - with one starting Thursday - will give Covington residents additional opportunities to properly dispose of tires, appliances, yard waste, old cleaning chemicals, and other problematic materials.
The events:
The Kenton County Public Works Fall C...
See the small, white dome-shaped device above the mural at left? That's a wireless access point, and this building on Madison Avenue already has one installed.
City seeks properties to attach tiny devices for digital equity project
COVINGTON, Ky. - The City of Covington is looking for "hotspot hosts" to help its schoolchildren learn and their families "get ahead."
All that's ...
Board of Commission Meeting Minutes 09-29-20
COVINGTON, Ky. - (ABOUT THE PHOTO): Workers from DWA Recreation Inc. install playground equipment in Barb Cook Park today as Phase I of the Latonia park’s long-awaited renovation is under way.
Phase I will add an array of play equipment for young children (including a “playstructure,” swings, and “sway bench”), concrete walking paths, and features for family co...
COVINGTON, Ky. - Catch an Indie flick outside or a made-for-TV in a fancy setting. Or pull on your lederhosen and drink a themed beer.
And of course, there are multiple places to buy food and flora, pop-up style.
‘Oktoberfest,’ 2020
“Oktoberfuel” on tap. German-themed cuisine (from Parlor on Seventh). Music by Zinzinnati Bierband.
Sound familiar?
&...
New ‘form-based’ approach represents drastic change
in guiding land development
COVINGTON, Ky. - Good-bye, (and good riddance?) Zoning Ordinance. Hello (and a warm welcome), Neighborhood Development Code.
In a vote that seemed almost anticlimactic given the nearly two years of intense effort and widespread public engagement that led to this point, the Covin...