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Familiar face to run Public Works on temporary basis

Chris Warneford will oversee the Public Works Department in Covington on a part-time, temporary basis. COVINGTON, Ky. - A familiar face will oversee Covington’s Public Works Department on a part-time temporary basis while the City searches for a permanent director.  The City has hired C...

An era’s end: ‘Flat Top’ shuts down after 52 years

The Kentucky Post photographed the massive site near Fourth Street being cleared for the IRS center in the mid-1960s. Notice how the size of the site dwarfs the bulldozer. (Photo courtesy of the Kenton County Public Library) 1,100 miles away, architect who designed IRS center laments closure ...

Akilah, pumpkins & 'Miscast'

COVINGTON, Ky. - A homemade salsa contest and a big pile of pumpkins for sale in a patch to rival Linus van Pelt's naïve trust of faith (though honestly we hear the voice not of Charlie Brown but of Jack Skellington as we type this) ... yeah, it’s getting to be autumn.   Bu...

Board of Commission Legislative Meeting Agenda 10-01-19

  Draft Agenda

The Smithsonian, smokes & ‘sustainability'

COVINGTON, Ky. - The theme of this weekend in #LoveTheCov is Serious, Solemn and Citizenship September.   OK, we just made that up.   But after the recent Unlock the Block and Oktoberfest weekends, we’re toning it down a bit this weekend to highlight a free day at the museum, the unv...

Population grows at Prisoners

Kentucky fisheries tech Willie Clifton prepares to release redear sunfish in Prisoners Lake with the help of David Hale (hidden). State delivers 3,250 redear sunfish through FINs program  COVINGTON, Ky. - Anglers will have a better chance of watching their bobbers bounce and their corks careen ...

City property tax payments due by Oct. 15

Covington keeps rate the same for 3rd year in row   COVINGTON, Ky. - Property tax bills have been sent to Covington residents and payment is due by midnight Oct. 15.   Residents have five different ways to pay: Online, through a user-friendly taxpayer portal, accessed directly&nb...

Licking Greenway years in making

Cutting the ribbon today were, from left, recreation program coordinator Jess Link and Manager Rosie Santos of the Parks & Recreation Division, City Manager David Johnston, Mayor Joe Meyer, Neighborhood Services Department Director Ken Smith, and recreation seasonal Patrick Moore and administrat...

‘More than a building’

From about 1900 until 1970, a joint City-County building sat at Third and Market (Now “Court”) streets. BeSpoke report: Future City Hall needs to be a 'hub' COVINGTON, Ky. - When the City of Covington one day builds a permanent home to end its 50-year “nomadic existence,” Ci...
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