Drop-off events help residents with problematic waste disposal
COVINGTON, Ky. - Five special drop-off events in the coming weeks - with one starting Thursday - will give Covington residents additional opportunities to properly dispose of tires, appliances, yard waste, old cleaning chemicals, and other problematic materials.
The events:
The Kenton County Public Works Fall C...
See the small, white dome-shaped device above the mural at left? That's a wireless access point, and this building on Madison Avenue already has one installed.
City seeks properties to attach tiny devices for digital equity project
COVINGTON, Ky. - The City of Covington is looking for "hotspot hosts" to help its schoolchildren learn and their families "get ahead."
All that's ...
COVINGTON, Ky. - (ABOUT THE PHOTO): Workers from DWA Recreation Inc. install playground equipment in Barb Cook Park today as Phase I of the Latonia park’s long-awaited renovation is under way.
Phase I will add an array of play equipment for young children (including a “playstructure,” swings, and “sway bench”), concrete walking paths, and features for family co...
COVINGTON, Ky. - Catch an Indie flick outside or a made-for-TV in a fancy setting. Or pull on your lederhosen and drink a themed beer.
And of course, there are multiple places to buy food and flora, pop-up style.
‘Oktoberfest,’ 2020
“Oktoberfuel” on tap. German-themed cuisine (from Parlor on Seventh). Music by Zinzinnati Bierband.
Sound familiar?
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New ‘form-based’ approach represents drastic change
in guiding land development
COVINGTON, Ky. - Good-bye, (and good riddance?) Zoning Ordinance. Hello (and a warm welcome), Neighborhood Development Code.
In a vote that seemed almost anticlimactic given the nearly two years of intense effort and widespread public engagement that led to this point, the Covin...
Covington’s property tax rate will remain the same for the fourth year in a row.
Rate kept the same for 4th year in a row
COVINGTON, Ky. - Covington’s property tax rates for calendar year 2020 will remain the same for the fourth year in a row.
The Covington City Commission on Tuesday approved rates of 0.327 for real estate and 0.349 for personal property - the s...
An outdoor dining and drinking area on Seventh Street is created each evening from on-street parking near Braxton Brewing Co.’s taproom and Parlor on Seventh, McK’s Chicks, and Rich’s Proper Food and Drink restaurants.
City extends pandemic-related ReCov outdoor seating campaign,
allows heaters
COVINGTON, Ky. - Up Over Bar owner Amy Kummler has great appreciat...
COVINGTON, Ky. - Voters will have three different ways to vote this year as elections officials react to challenges posed by COVID-19.
Please see the chart above for important information from Kenton County Clerk Gabrielle Summe, which has been updated from an earlier chart with locations of drop box locations for absentee ballots.
In addition, Summe has compiled an easy to chec...
DBL Law Managing Partner Bob Hoffer takes a bite out of the Monarch Building annex. (Photo courtesy of DBL Law)
$11.3MM Monarch Building rehab to create home for DBL Law
COVINGTON, Ky. - With a ferocious bite from an excavator’s “claw,” DBL Law Managing Partner Bob Hoffer ripped off part of a concrete block and brick wall, officially breaking ground on the $11.3 million pr...
COVINGTON, Ky. - COVID-19 still has much havoc to wreak and lives to damage. But this weekend in The Cov gives us hope that - despite the need for caution and care - fun can still be had.
From theater to pop-up art, a gallery opening to a Mexican cuisine-book event, some neighborhood cleanups to a holiday celebrated 6 months late, here are an array of events that will make going back to wor...