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Shopping, Pajama Parties & storybooks

COVINGTON, Ky. - We can read your mind, right now.   You're thinking, "oh no, annoying relatives are coming to town, how in the world are we going to entertain them?"   Either that, or "Christmas is coming, I hate shopping, and I wish there was an easy way to find unique things for those hard-to-please people on my list."   Or maybe "I'm so bored - no WAY am I watchin...

MainStrasse garage: Special day hours this weekend

COVINGTON, Ky. - Shoppers in MainStrasse Village will be able to park in the new RiverHaus Apartments garage during daytime hours this Friday and Saturday as part of a special, one-time change.   About 100 spots in the garage were made available starting Tuesday of this week as part of a special agreement worked out between the City and project developer Flaherty & Collins Properties. &nb...

‘Read Ready Covington’ soon to be familiar phrase

COVINGTON, Ky. - The images feature cartoon drawings of adults reading to children ... and soon they’ll be seen on posters, bookmarks, and stickers all over Covington.   It’s all part of a community-wide mobilization launched tonight to use reading to better prepare Covington’s children for kindergarten.   Read Ready Covington is the name unveiled tonight for the childh...

A diverse, eclectic, assorted, varied (etc.) list

COVINGTON, Ky. - There’s no obvious theme for events this weekend in #LoveTheCov, so we’re not going to attempt any rhetorical gymnastics or semantic contortions in an attempt to be clever.   Suffice to say there’s a wide array of fun things to do, from the annual return of a much-loved holiday train display (and a little White House Christmas history) to a new beer honoring...

Business workshop explains downtown visitor data

COVINGTON, Ky. - You own a business in Covington and you’ve seen the influx in visitors to the urban core (measured at well over 90,000 people in the month of October). But you want to know more:  What days of the week see the most visitors? What time of day? Are these visitors new to Covington, or have they been here before? What areas do they visit? And, most impo...

City: Bells to toll at 11 a.m. Nov. 11

COVINGTON, Ky. - The City of Covington is asking that its churches, schools, and any other building with bells to toll them at 11 a.m. Sunday to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day.   The “Bells of Peace” is a nationwide campaign to mark the centennial remembrance of the ending of fighting in World War I, the armistice being signed “on the 11th hour, of the...

Covington mobilizing on education outcomes

Early literacy campaign goes public Thursday COVINGTON, Ky. - The City of Covington next week will formally launch a childhood literacy initiative designed to mobilize the entire community around getting the City’s youngest kids off to a better start in their school careers.   To understand the urgency of this issue, Mayor Joe Meyer says, it helps to know a few numbers.   One is...

Big Head Todd & big guns (biceps)

COVINGTON, Ky. - This weekend, the list of things to do in #LoveTheCov is brought to you by the letter “B.”   (OK, so we ripped off Sesame Street to find a common theme this week. It works.)   There’s Big Head Todd & the Monsters at the Madison Theater. Bodybuilding and big guns (aka big biceps) at the Convention Center. There’s Braxton’s Breeders’...

Trick or treat hours unchanged

Trick or treat in the City of Covington will remain 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 31, as set by the City Commission on Oct. 9.

Halloween, harvest & hockey

COVINGTON, Ky. - If you’re not in full autumn celebration mode, you will be come Monday.   From Halloween parties (seemingly everywhere) to harvest festivals, #LoveTheCov is rocking October and early November traditions this weekend. Note this is the last weekend to shop the Covington Farmers Market in an outdoor setting in 2018 - next week it moves inside.   But if you don’t...
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