City would partner with Tri-State Trails on creating strategy to make The Cov more bike friendly
COVINGTON, Ky. – Wanting to take a strategic and feasible approach to making Covington more bike friendly, the Board of Commissioners tonight will vote on partnering with the advocacy group Tri-State Trails to create a bicycle transportation plan for Covington and its neighbor, Newport, o...
Trucks are loaded and ready to go. That’s municipal grounds worker Corey Lohstroh filling tanks with a brine solution earlier today.
With ‘nasty’ storm almost here, Public Works will do all it can to keep streets safe
COVINGTON, Ky. – The road salt dome is full (minus what’s been loaded into trucks). The trucks themselves have been outfitted with plows and ...
KYTC/ODOT seeking feedback on pending issues for Brent Spence Corridor revamp
COVINGTON, Ky. – Are you curious how (and where) a revamped Brent Spence Bridge and its completely new companion span will separate local commuters from pass-through travelers?
Do you have thoughts and/or strong feelings about noise barriers, landscaping, pedestrian walkways, and the “look” o...
State project will mean safer, less congested Brent Spence
COVINGTON, Ky. – How drivers enter Interstate 71/75 in Covington just south of the Brent Spence Bridge will change at 5 a.m. Thursday as construction of the $8.8 million “Texas Turnaround” edges closer to completion, state highway officials announced today.
The state-funded project will reduce accidents and relieve ...
Photo 1: A scene from last year. (That’s Prince Baker, James Payne, and Bryan Snider, from left working Greenup Street).
Photo 2: Crews from the General Maintenance Division recently installed leaf-collection equipment on trucks. From left: seasonal laborers Dallas Hedger, Don Housley, and Zach Ackman, laborer Ryan Gribble, light equipment operator Lonnie Johnson, and laborer Prince Baker...
Parks and Facilities Maintenance Supervisor Brad Schwenke welds a disc golf basket into place, while Laborer V Tim Moore (below) touches up the paint on one of those borrowed from Boone County.
Help from Boone County Parks, others critical
COVINGTON, Ky. – The 18 “baskets” don’t match, but the Covington Disc Golf Course is put back together, and playable.
Three day...
A disc golf “basket,” prior to installation.
Police, Parks & Rec seeking tips related to felony theft
COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington officials are seeking help in solving a brazen theft overnight of a dozen brand-new disc golf “baskets” from Devou Park worth more than $5,000.
Just a few days after the dedication of the Covington Disc Golf Course on Saturday, ...
Photo 1: Covington’s partnership with FC Cincinnati Foundation will bring both a kid-size mini pitch to Austinburg and the organization’s Soccer Unites youth program. This photo provided by FCC Foundation is from a ribbon-cutting from a mini pitch previously built in Price Hill, Cincinnati.
Photo 2: The proposed site plan for the renovation of Austinburg Neighborhoo...
Open House to showcase new campus in Peaselburg
COVINGTON, Ky. – Consider this a (somewhat) belated change of address notice: Covington Public Works has a new home.
Crews from the department that maintains the City’s infrastructure settled into their new address at 1730 Russell St. in Peaselburg a little over a month ago, gradually moving trucks, equipment, invent...
Tando Way in South Covington is the first street tackled by Riegler Blacktop.
Annual resurfacing project to bring smoother driving
COVINGTON, Ky. – All or part of 22 streets in Covington are about to get a smoother surface.
Some 80,000 square yards of asphalt will be laid 1½ inches thick as part of a $995,000 contract that got underway this week on Tando Drive in South Coving...