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$$$ for neighborhoods

Neighborhood signs such as this one at Fifth and Philadelphia streets are one example of small projects that are eligible for the City of Covington’s new Neighborhood Grant Program. Meeting next week to explain new City grant program  COVINGTON, Ky. - The City of Covington is holding an i...

City to be strategic in selling property

This property on Lee Street has been vacant since the City acquired it in 2009. Its sale is pending. New formal guidelines seek best uses for vacant buildings, land  COVINGTON, Ky. - At last count, the City of Covington owns over 150 parcels of property.   They’re of different sizes....

New Covington officer a familiar face

Police Chief Rob Nader, left, prepares to present Jim Lindeman with his new Covington badge today after Lindeman was sworn in by Mayor Joe Meyer, center.    COVINGTON, Ky. - The City of Covington gained another police officer today, and this one has a familiar face.  Jim Lindeman was ...

A Lil' Run, Happy 7th & video golf

COVINGTON, Ky. - Let’s say you liked physical activity. Well then you could run with the Lil’s Bagel folks, swing dance BEFORE the Swing! production, do yoga with adoption dogs, or attend the mountain biking clinic.   Let’s say you like music. Well there’s all sorts of l...

Board of Commission Caucus Meeting Agenda 04-16-19

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Order, pick up a free (potted) tree

This flowering cherry on Madison Pike shows that trees have aesthetic benefits as well as environmental ones.   COVINGTON, Ky. -- If you live in Covington, you’re eligible for a free tree from Taking Root and The Arbor Day Foundation.  The trees are 2- to 4-feet tall, come in a 5-gal...

National Pet Day: We miss 'Billy'

'Billy' in happier times, munching on the table.   COVINGTON. Ky. -- On National Pet Day, our thoughts turn mournfully to the member of our family who is no longer with us.  Our little “fur baby” (although technically we guess “Billy” was more like our “precio...

Book highlights Covington’s ‘weird, wonderful’

Title says 'Cincinnati,' but 16 locations are found here   COVINGTON, Ky. - When travel and lifestyle writer Kathy Witt was identifying places to feature in her 2018 book "Secret Cincinnati: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure," she sifted through a region containing almost 1.6 million ...

City starts process to build bigger Engine Co. 2

There’s less than an inch of clearance between Pumper 2’s ladders and Engine Co. 2’s door frame.   COVINGTON, Ky. - Stack 10 quarters on top of each other.  That’s the distance between the ladder on top of Pumper 2 and the door frame on the Covington Fire Department...

Read Ready Covington on WVXU’s Cincinnati Edition

COVINGTON, Ky. - The City’s community-wide childhood literacy initiative, Read Ready Covington, was showcased on WVXU radio’s Cincinnati Edition program today.   Mary Kay Connolly, Director of the initiative, was one of four guests invited on the luncheon interview show to...
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