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City gives businesses rent/mortgage $$$

Yankee Doodle Deli owner Marilyn Baker said the City’s application for emergency rent/mortgage business assistance was easy to fill out. (Photo provided) Job-protection program: 8 approved, more on way  COVINGTON, Ky. - An emergency program to help small businesses in Covington pay rent or mortgages during the COVID-19 pandemic has already approved eight applications, with 18 more...

COVID-19 can’t stop police training

Covington Police Department Lt. Matt Winship, standing, talks to Covington’s new recruits about ways to keep safe. While awaiting academy, recruits attend ‘school’ in-house  COVINGTON, Ky. - Covington’s Police Department has eight recruits awaiting the reopening of the state-run training academy, but rather than let them sit idle, the department has created its own ram...

4th St. bridge reopens with restrictions

The reopened Fourth Street bridge, as seen from the Newport approach with the lane restrictions in place and the new weight limit sign (Photo provided by KYTC).  Lanes reduced, lower weight limit in place until repair is made  COVINGTON, Ky. - The Licking River bridge that carries almost 14,000 vehicles a day between Covington and Newport at Fourth Street is back open ... but with fewer...

City credit rating boosted to A1

Moody’s upgrades Covington for 2nd time in two years   (EDITOR’S NOTE: This release has been edited to add a link to the official credit opinion, which was distributed May 14.) COVINGTON, Ky. - Moody’s Investors Service today upgraded the City of Covington’s credit rating for the second time in two years and also gave the City a “positive outlook” goin...

Bingo, books & BCM

COVINGTON, Ky. - It’s a sign of a pretty cool town when - even during a pandemic when everything is pretty much shut down and we’re all being told to stay #HealthyatHome - that it’s possible to put together a half-way decent weekend narrative events calendar.   (That’s our story, as they say, and we’re not wavering from it ...)   Anyway, #LoveTheCov   B...

Covington lagging in Census returns

Poor response will cost taxpayers millions of dollars   COVINGTON, Ky. - Two weeks into the 2020 Census count, Covington citizens’ response rate is lagging significantly behind that of other Northern Kentucky cities.   If more citizens don’t take the few minutes necessary to fill out the form - which can be done online for the first time ever - Covington could stand to lose m...

Corrosion closes 4th St. bridge to cars

The Fourth Street bridge into Newport is closed to vehicles for the time being.  State eyes options after inspection reveals deteriorated steel support COVINGTON, Ky. - The Licking River bridge that connects Covington and Newport at Fourth Street is closed to vehicles for the time being after a state inspection team found deterioration in a “primary load-carrying member.”   ...

Gov. Beshear signs pension relief bills

Covington’s employer contribution rates toward the pensions of its public employees have been increasing 12 percent year over year due to a state mandate. Sen. McDaniel’s ‘freeze’ saves Covington taxpayers $1MM   COVINGTON, Ky. - Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear recently signed into law two pieces of legislation that will throw the City of Covington a $1 million lifeline in...

Fidelity Investments expanding workforce

2K hires needed nationwide; Webinar on Tuesday in Covington COVINGTON, Ky. - Covington’s largest employer - Fidelity Investments - is hiring about 2,000 people at its locations around the United States, including at its massive complex off Ky. 16 in Covington.   The company made the announcement earlier today and scheduled a “Covington Webinar” - i.e. a “virtua...

Top-shelf sanitizer

COVINGTON, Ky. -- Yes, we know what it looks like, but it’s actually hand sanitizer made by the Faber Distilling Co. of Pennsylvania, using a recipe approved by the World Health Organization. (And the bottles? Try tracking down generic plastic bottles these days, the distiller says.)   Latonia Liquors and Liquor Express purchased and donated two CASES of the hand sanitizer to Covington ...
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