Friday event seeks ideas on Clay Wade Bailey gateway
COVINGTON, Ky. – Every welcoming home maintains an inviting entry point … an attractive “front door,” so to speak, that beckons visitors to cross its threshold.
“Welcoming” cities are not any different.
That’s why the City of Covington is starting a public conversation about how to improve one ...
Campaign to eliminate cigarette litter energizing in The Cov
COVINGTON, Ky. – The campaign to keep cigarette butts from trashing up Covington’s streets is about to become super visible and super-charged.
Thanks to a grant, a wrap-around ad on a Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky bus will soon tout the slogans “Trash the Cig, NOT the City” and “LOVE The COV, ...
Volunteers donating their time and sweat at planting events over the years have played a big part in creating Covington’s urban canopy.
Saturday event targets shade-poor streets in West Latonia
COVINGTON, Ky. – Looking to do something worthwhile this weekend? How about helping to establish a verdant canopy of trees along City streets?
The Covington Urban Forestry Board will pl...
Photo one: The realignment of Hands Pike remains on schedule to be completed by Nov. 1, 2022.
Photo two: An aerial view shows the challenge of overcoming the steep grade. (Photo provided by Nancy Wood, KYTC)
Rebuilt road to create safer route to, from South Covington
COVINGTON, Ky. – From high in the air, the hills near Hands Pike must resemble a giant’s sandbox crawling ...
Saturday event in Goebel part of butterfly initiative in The Cov
COVINGTON, Ky. – If you want to attract butterflies to your yard, here’s your chance to get some free perennial plants to start or add to a pollinator garden.
The people who manage the Goebel Park Pollinator Garden in the Covington park just east of Interstate 75 will be digging up and “dividing” an arra...
Look here to see when your street is scheduled
COVINGTON, Ky. – The City of Covington will again help residents clean up the beautiful but labor-intensive mess of autumn created by trees dropping leaves in the public right of way.
With blowers and two giant vacuum trucks, crews from the Public Works Department will start collect...
Among the trees available are cultivars of magnolia, left, and cherry, similar to those shown here.
ROAD iD donation to grow canopy in targeted neighborhoods
COVINGTON, Ky. – The City of Covington has 57 trees to give away, thanks to a donation from Covington firm ROAD iD.
But you have to act f...
The Latonia Water Park/Splash Pad
Parks & Rec closes books on successful 2021 pool season
with plans for a bigger, better 2022
COVINGTON, Ky. – Each drop in autumn temperatures is pushing the 2021 summer pool season further back in the rearview mirror, but Covington’s Parks & Rec staff are both reveling in the success of the season and making plans for next y...
Upcoming cleanup events help solve trash problems
COVINGTON, Ky. – Need to do some fall cleaning?
Two events in the coming weeks can help you not only make extra space in your basement and shed but also get rid of problematic items like oil, antifreeze, televisions, and tires.
The first event, this Saturday at the Cincinnati Recycling and Reuse Hub in C...
Torrential rains in June 2019 flooded basements and tore up pavement, including on Montague Road below Devou Park.
City employing next step to zero in on health concerns
related to rain runoff woes
COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington is employing the next step in figuring out whether some of its residents’ basement-flooding issues, particularly those with potential health imp...