The City of Covington is celebrating International Women’s Day today by calling attention to the many women at the City who use their intellects, talent, skills, and expertise to make Covington a better place to live, work, and visit.
Here are photos of some of the City’s female employees at various work sites. Unfortunately, because of vacations, ...
COVINGTON, Ky. - Thanksgiving has turkey and stuffing. Valentine’s Day its iconic candy hearts. New Year’s Day has its pork and sauerkraut (Covington’s German roots talking), and the 4th of July its deer burgers and goetta ’dogs (personal favorites).
And of course Easter has its Pappas eggs (you thought we were going to write “colored h...
COVINGTON, Ky. - Every outside auditor who has looked at Covington’s books since 2013 has formally scolded the City for the same omission: Lack of a formal, comprehensive manual spelling out accounting procedures.
That’s about to be fixed.
The City’s Finance Department presented a newly compiled 49-page “Accounting Policies and Procedures Manual” to the ...
A demo bike rack installed on Pike Street across from City Hall (and near the cut-through to Seventh Street) was in use much of today.
COVINGTON, Ky. - People who use bicycles to get around Covington may soon have hundreds of places to lock up their bikes - not only in the downtown area but also in neighborhood business districts and parks.
The Covington City Commission directed staff to d...
Open house seeks comment on proposals to increase safety
COVINGTON, Ky. - Technically, the closest NASCAR track is 40 miles south, in Sparta, Ky.
But many residents of Covington neighborhoods that border Greenup Street and Scott Boulevard say they only have to look out their front doors to see what amounts to a cutthroat race every rush hour - and a crowded one at that.
The volume ...
Taylor Harris and her daughter, Leah, use the Footsteps2Brilliance early learning app during a recent Read Ready Covington event at City Heights.
Partners spreading word for childhood literacy campaign
COVINGTON, Ky. - Four months into the Read Ready Covington literacy initiative, nearly 3,000 children and adults have registered for the free apps whose activities are the backbone of the ...
COVINGTON, Ky. - The City of Covington has mailed its yearly bills for garbage and recycling collection, with payments due by March 31.
Bills are being sent to all homeowners and residents of rental units with one to four units. Businesses and apartments with more than four units have commercial accounts and contract on their own with Rumpke Waste & Recycling for service.
Residen...
COVINGTON, Ky. - Don’t genuflect now, but Ash Wednesday is next week. And with the coming days of fasting, ashes, sackcloth, denial, and ritual penance, most people feel obligated to squeeze in the last-second revelry known as Mardi Gras.
(Or at least that’s our assessment.)
Several Covington establishments can help you out in that regard, as well as some non-NOLA doings ...
Among other things, Covington used funds from this year’s CDBG program to replace the fence around Goebel Pool, shown here.
COVINGTON, Ky. - Reminder: The City of Covington is holding a hearing tonight to get the public’s ideas on how it should spend several million dollars from the federal government destined for services, programs and investments in neighborhoods.
The money...
One of the architect’s renderings of the proposed Lewisburg Thorofare Project on Pike Street.
City to help implement public-private ‘Thorofare Project’
COVINGTON, Ky. - A vote of the Covington City Commission this week formalized what had been unofficially announced the week before:
The first big splash of The RIPPLE Effect will occur in Lewisburg.
A neighborh...