Public Works hiring for warm months
COVINGTON, Ky. – The City of Covington’s Public Works Department is hiring “seasonal” workers to tackle an array of primarily outdoors duties, including things like cutting grass and weeds, filling potholes, and painting over graffiti.
While temporary (most run about nine months), the positions help workers build a resume and accumu...
Drivers on Fourth Street wanting to head north on Interstates 71/75 will have a safer time of it with the completion of the “Texas Turnaround.”
$8.8MM realignment of Covington ramp to increase safety,
reduce accidents on Brent Spence
COVINGTON, Ky. – Work is scheduled to begin next Wednesday, March 16, on the “Texas Turnaround,” a state-funded plan to reduce ...
Changes protect on-street spots for small businesses
COVINGTON, Ky. – Seeking to preserve on-street parking for the small businesses who need it to survive, the City of Covington will begin enforcing parking meters on evenings and Saturdays.
The long-overdue change brings Covington in line with surrounding cities and is partly in response to complaints from business owners about spots ...
COVINGTON, Ky. – The long and complex process of transforming the vacant 23-acre IRS site into a reimagined neighborhood jumped forward this week on parallel tracks – one visible to the public and one all but behind the scenes.
O’Rourke Wrecking Company moved construction trailers to the site as it plans to begin removing asbestos and underground fuel tanks next week, kicking ...
Almost 100 trees also recycled during effort to save landfill space
COVINGTON, Ky. – Nearly 100 discarded trees and almost 650 pounds of non-working lights from Covington were kept out of landfills this past holiday season – and when you include the “dead” strands of lights collected by the City’s partners across Northern Kentucky, that number expands fivefold.
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Flanked by their chief transportation advisers, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, seated at left, and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear sign the Brent Spence Bridge project agreement. That’s Ohio Department of Transportation Director Jack Marchbanks at far left, and Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Sec. Jim Gray at far right.
City praises Beshear, DeWine after joint Brent Spence announcement
COVINGTON, ...
Floyd Ard, with Public Works’ Right-of-Way Division, installs a historic marker on East 4th Street.
4,900-mile route draws tourists to 16 states
COVINGTON, Ky. – Three new street signs featuring the silhouettes of two buckskin-clad explorers signal Covington’s inclusion on a historic route that stretches almost 5,000 miles through 16 states and retraces one of the most famo...
Public Works crews working double shifts to clear streets
COVINGTON, Ky. – Every driver and piece of equipment available ...
As snowflakes continued to fall this morning on the second day of a particularly problematic winter storm, leaders at Covington’s Public Works Department said they will continue to throw everything they have toward the mission of clearing roads and making t...
Daniel Chumley, left, and Doug Meyung mount a snow plow on a City of Covington Public Works truck. The two are mechanics in the Fleet Division.
Rain, bitter cold to complicate road crews’ response
COVINGTON, Ky. – It’s going to be “ugly.”
As crews from Covington’s Public Works Department prepare for the coming winter storm, its leaders say drivers shoul...
City OKs contract, work to start next month
COVINGTON, Ky. – Almost 55 years after it opened and 2½ years after it closed, the sprawling IRS data processing facility will soon cease to exist.
The Covington Board of Commissioners on Tuesday night voted 5-0 to hire O’Rourke Wrecking Company of Cincinnati to demolish the sprawling one-story “Flat Top” complex, rip...