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With a Caterpillar’s swipe, the ‘Flat Top’ era ends

As seen from the east, the former IRS “Flat Top” dominates the 23-acre Central Covington Riverfront site.   5½-month demolition of IRS facility begins today COVINGTON, Ky. – A Caterpillar 365 excavator will approach the former IRS data-processing facility sometime today and – with a ferocious swipe of its bucket – rip off the southern edge of the ...

Free car care clinic to break ground Tuesday on new Covington location

COVINGTON, Ky. – Several years ago, Mia Potter was driving a “beat-up van” that needed repairs she couldn’t afford. Then she met Bruce Kintner, director of Samaritan Car Care Clinic. Since 2007, Samaritan Car Care Clinic has provided low-income people with free, routine basic maintenance on their car as a way to help them move toward economic self-sufficiency. For ...

Easter, Eilerman & Coconut Stout

COVINGTON, Ky. – Obviously, Sunday morning will be all about Easter services and brunches and egg searches and the like. The weather should be decent, and we have three pieces of advice: Bonnets are back … find every hard-boiled egg, lest that smell grow fairly foul come July … and, if you’re feeling lazy, check out some brunch opportunities in The Cov below. (Oh, and ...

New ‘toy’ = smoother driving, better pothole repair

Todd Redman, storm water maintenance supervisor, makes a second pass on a strip of Martin Street with the new cold planer attachment. Public Works puts cold planer attachment to use COVINGTON, Ky. – Slowly and methodically, Todd Redman drove a Bobcat skid steer loader down Martin Street, the attachment on its front “grinding and chewing” asphalt with the efficiency of a rot...

Board of Commission Meeting Minutes 03/22/2022

Board of Commission Meeting Minutes 03/22/2022

City to fund 11 neighborhood projects

Projects funded through the City’s Neighborhood Grant Program in the past have included signs, banners, picnic tables, benches, dog waste stations, flower pots, and landscaping. Ideas include landscaping, safety signs, dog waste stations & tour COVINGTON, Ky. – Eleven neighborhood groups are due to receive funding from the City of Covington for small improvement projects ran...

Grace period ends for new parking meter hours

Changes protect on-street spots for small businesses COVINGTON, Ky. – The month-long grace period is over: Parking meters will now be enforced 8 a.m. until 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday in Covington as part of an effort to preserve on-street parking for small businesses who need it to survive. The new hours went into effect March 9 and “courtesy tickets” – aka warnin...

M&M Service’s new HQ = ‘spectacular’ transformation in Helentown

M&M Service is the Tri-state leader in petroleum equipment, service, and sales -- a specialized industry that in the company’s case includes construction, distribution, and a variety of other services related to gas stations … plus a growing presence in the future of the automobile industry – electric power. COVINGTON, Ky. – City of Covington officials helped M&...

Board of Architectural Review and Development (BOARD) Meeting April 20, 2022

Special meeting notice for the Board of Architectural Review and Development (BOARD) meeting scheduled for Wednesday, April 20, 2022.
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