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, ...
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 “playstructu...
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Organizers galvanized by enthusiasm for ‘going green’
COVINGTON, Ky. - Organizers of the annual Recycling Drop-Off Day for Electronic Waste and Paper Shredding in Covington say the almost unbelievable numbers from the event have only one conclusion: People want to be “green....
A family picked up their free computer during an earlier event in Houston in which Comp-U-Dopt was involved. (Photo from Comp-U-Dopt)
‘Today’-famous Houston group raising $$ for Covington Connect
COVINGTON, Ky. - As featured on the “Today” show this morning (see ...
Volunteers prepare to recycle electronics and paper documents at the 2019 Electronic Recycling and Paper Shredding Drop-Off Day. The event saved almost 10 tons of e-waste and paper from going into landfills.
Annual drop-off event Saturday enables safe disposal
COVINGTON, Ky. - Don’t thro...
A scene from the 2018 Great American Cleanup. (Photo from Keep Covington Beautiful)
April’s massive Great American Cleanup now fall event(s)
COVINGTON, Ky. - With two neighborhood cleanup events this weekend and more to come, pandemic-related restrictions are proving no barrier for tenac...
Monday is first ‘drawing’ for $2.5MM digital equity project;
donors, Wi-Fi ‘hotspot hosts’ sought
COVINGTON, Ky. - A random drawing on Monday will select 100 families of Covington schoolchildren to receive free computers, the first round of a massive giveaway that&rsqu...
TJ Ball and Joe Koehl pick up trash, a rusted rim, and an old carpet during River Sweep 2020.
Cleanup limited to 30 volunteers, but they cleared 3.19 tons
COVINGTON, Ky. - Compared to the festival-like atmosphere of pre-pandemic cleanups, River Sweep 2020 was a tightly controlled, well-orchest...
City: Residents better served if MS4 permit managed in-house
COVINGTON, Ky. - Since 2003, the City of Covington has partnered with Sanitation District No. 1 of Northern Kentucky to co-manage what’s called the City’s MS4 permit, a rather narrow subset of federal Clean Water Act tha...