The buildings on Seventh Street that used to house Heringer Meats are being turned into commercial storefronts and apartments.
COVINGTON, Ky. - The City of Covington is giving six more businesses help with first-year rent and fixing up their exteriors.
The incentives - representing the second round of funding through the City’s expanded and upgraded Small Business Program - were approved Tue...
The service of outgoing Covington City Commissioners Jordan Huizenga, left, and Bill Wells have made them “true champions of Covington,” their colleagues said tonight.
COVINGTON, Ky. - Covington said good-bye to two two-term City Commissioners tonight with words of thanks, formal resolutions, and presents.
Jordan Huizenga and Bill Wells were first elected in fall 2014, we...
Troy McCain, who has been with the City since 1995, will supervise the General Maintenance Division.
COVINGTON, Ky. - Covington will soon have a new supervisor to oversee street sweeping, leaf collection, mowing, and other responsibilities in the Public Works Department’s General Maintenance Division - and he’s a familiar face.
Troy McCain is set to be approved as part of the con...
City of Covington employees wrapped presents for 30 kids today.
COVINGTON, Ky. - The room where the Covington City Commission holds its weekly meetings became a satellite of Santa’s North Pole toy workshop today when City employees gathered - not to make toys and gifts - but to wrap the heck out of them.
The toys, clothes and gifts were donated as part of City Hall’s annual Christmas T...
In 2017, Renaissance Covington was named the best in the country for creative place-making. Today, City officials praised the work of its departing director, Katie Meyer (at left in the line of people, holding the plaque), and said they hoped her replacement builds on Meyer’s work.
City praises departing director Meyer
COVINGTON, Ky. - If you’ve been downtown over the last few y...
COVINGTON, Ky. - In a city with a lot of unique bars and restaurants, it’s no surprise that the 85th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition is going to be celebrated.
How you celebrate it is up to you: This weekend in #LoveTheCov, you can drink a little (at a lot of places), or you can go listen to a jazz tribute or watch a dance troupe.
Or you can ignore it altogether a...
COVINGTON, Ky. - If you see an influx of people downtown, there’s a reason:
Today is the first day of the three-day national conference of The Council of State Governments, which has brought nearly 900 state-level government leaders to Covington from across the country and Canada.
“I was told over 800 leaders registered and they expect 850 to 875, so this is a pretty big ...
COVINGTON, Ky. - Come January - when the last Oatmeal Scotchie has been eaten and the tree untrimmed and you’re long since weary of Bing Crosby and Mariah Carey singing those timeless (and seemingly endless) Christmas classics and you just have to get out of the house - might we suggest attending a Covington City Commission meeting?
The Commission recently set its January sc...
Ongoing survey focuses on customer service
COVINGTON, Ky. - The City of Covington is seeking feedback with an ongoing Customer Satisfaction Survey that will be posted on the City’s website.
It’s short, with only a handful of questions, a numerical rating, and a place for comments - and it’s designed to collect insight on employees’ interactions with the ...
Covington Assistant City Manager Frank Warnock with his award
COVINGTON, Ky. - Frank Warnock started going to city council and zoning board meetings in 1979 as a cub reporter for a small newspaper in the Marion County town of Lebanon.
“That’s when it started,” he said. “I’ve just been fascinated by local government since that time.”
That “fascinatio...