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Lewisburg ‘wins’ rights to The RIPPLE Effect

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...

Award honors ambulance crew’s fast, precise work

Covington Firefighter/Paramedic Brian Boyers, left, and Firefighter/EMT Daniel Zembrodt receive the December “Door to Needle Award” from Amy Graham of the American Heart Association. Firefighter/Paramedic Jonathan Krull also received the award.   COVINGTON, Ky. - (EDITOR’S NOTE: A three-man ambulance crew with the Covington Fire Department received an award this mo...

New law impetus: St. Patrick’s Day revelry

Molly Malone’s Irish Pub in the Roebling Point District is one of the Covington restaurants that sought and received permission to sell alcohol on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, earlier than 9 a.m. this year.  Change allows alcohol earlier on Sundays, with permission COVINGTON, Ky. - Credit (or blame) one of the world’s most popular saints.   A cyclical and coincidental c...

‘Market gardens’ allow sale of harvest on site

City approves change to boost urban farming   COVINGTON, Ky. - Community groups and budding urban farmers who grow vegetables, herbs, flowers, and other plants in Covington will now be able to sell their harvest on site as well.   The Covington City Commission voted 5-0 tonight to allow so-called community gardens to become “market gardens,” subject to various regul...

Covington touts ‘Opportunity Zones’

New federal incentives hold potential for investors in City   COVINGTON, Ky. - The City of Covington is spreading the word about a new incentive available in the city where investors in economic development projects can reap significant federal tax breaks.   Five different census tracts in Covington have been deemed “Opportunity Zones,” enabling investors to take advantage of...

Party touts Adopt-A-Spot success

As part of the Adopt-A-Spot program, the Ride the Cov organization patrols the Riverfront Commons Trail atop the Ohio River floodwall on a weekly basis, keeping it free of litter. (Photo used courtesy of Ride the Cov) Volunteer program beautifies Covington, one location at a time  COVINGTON, Ky. - The street gutters long East 13th  and Wheeler streets routinely have less trash than they...

Wanted: Dinner hosts for low-key IRS confabs

COVINGTON, Ky. - The next phase of Covington’s efforts to solicit the public’s ideas for the soon-to-be-vacant 23-acre IRS site is banking on two beliefs:  Covington is blessed with smart, interesting, creative, articulate, and engaged people. Conversation around dinner and drinks is more productive and inviting than it would be in a 200-seat assembly hall or a Facebook co...

Suffragettes & statuettes (and Ignitor Maibock)

COVINGTON, Ky. - More rain is expected this weekend. You could stay home and get sulky, or you could don your galoshes, brogans, waders and ponchos and head out into #LoveTheCov.   So what if you turn waterlogged and your fingers grow wrinkly?   You won’t notice when you’re laughing and eating at The Art of Food, drinking an Ignitor Maibock, toasting suffragettes and statuett...

Danville Main Street director to lead RCov

Nick Wade is the new executive director of Renaissance Covington. Wade described as ‘innovative adventurist’   COVINGTON, Ky. - The organization that works full time to energize Covington’s urban core with creative place-making, special events, and community programming has a new executive director for the first time in almost a decade.   Nick Wade, who has held a simi...

How should the City spend federal grants?

Among other things, Covington used funds from this year’s Community Development Block Grant program to replace the fence around Randolph Pool, shown here. Public hearing on CDBG/HOME allocations next Thursday   COVINGTON, Ky. - The City of Covington wants the public’s help in deciding how to spend several million dollars it expects to receive from the federal government this spri...
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