Park Hills police have been conducting traffic studies on the city’s stretch of Amsterdam Road, which is already a traffic overflow route when I-71/75 is backed up and is expected to get worse as the Brent Spence Bridge Corridor project picks up speed. A main artery that funnels commuters to and from Crescent Springs, Park […]
Author Archives: Meghan Goth
As LINK nky's executive editor, Meghan Goth oversees editorial operations across all platforms. Before she started at LINK in 2022, she managed the investigative and enterprise teams at WCPO 9 in Cincinnati. She has also worked at The Cincinnati Enquirer, Dateline NBC and The New York Times Syndicate. She graduated with her Bachelor's in journalism from the University of Cincinnati in 2007 and received her Master of Science in Journalism from Columbia University in 2008.
Posted inBusiness
One wall, two bars and a landlord: How a noise complaint introduced NKY to a Mainstrasse feud
The feud, at least in the public’s eye, began in early 2022 when Chris Estano hired someone to play live music on the front patio of his Mainstrasse bar, Paddy’s on Main. It announced itself in the form of a noise complaint about the events of that night, then landed on a Covington City Commission […]
Posted inCrime
Independence man lived in apartment with dead girlfriend for days before arrest, police say
An Independence man is in custody after police said he killed his girlfriend and then lived in the apartment with her body for several days. Tommy Joe Powell, 55, is accused of killing his girlfriend, Amberly Harris, according to the Kenton County Prosecutor’s Office. Harris’ death comes just over a year after court records show […]
Posted inCulture
Allie the Elf is bored with the shelf: Find her perched around Alexandria this season
Hawk-eyed residents couldn’t believe what they saw: a full-sized elf precariously perched atop a street light at the intersection of US 27 and east Alexandria Pike on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022. Witnesses say the elf managed to scamper up to the top of the street light where she “hung out,” waving at motorists and pedestrians. […]
Posted inOpinion
Inside LINK: What was a town crier then, and what should it be now?
Inside LINK is a weekly column from CEO Lacy Starling; this week, Managing Editor Meghan Goth is taking over. You can email Lacy at lacy@linknky.com or Meghan at mgoth@linknky.com. If it bleeds it leads. If you’re familiar with this mantra, you’ve either worked in news or are an active consumer of it. This is the […]
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Time for LINK’s weekly office hours. Here’s where to find us
Some may have noticed that the LINK nky team has been holding office hours every Wednesday throughout the Northern Kentucky community. From 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. each Wednesday, residents can find the team spread out at coffee shops, libraries and anywhere else that will have us so that we can hear from readers. We’d […]
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Affordable housing in Northern Kentucky is everyone’s problem: ‘It could happen to anyone’
This story originally appeared in the Dec. 2 edition of the weekly LINK Reader. To see this story and others sooner, subscribe to the weekly newspaper here. Desiree Bradley was living in Erlanger with her two children and their father when her mother gave her an ultimatum. “She said, ‘If you don’t do something, I will […]
Posted inCulture
Photos: The Great Bridal Chase 5k
If you were walking around Covington Sunday and noticed a bunch of brides running, don’t worry: There were no last-minute cancellation of nuptials (that we know of, anyway!). It was just the Great Bridal Chase 5k, where participants got dolled up to get their exercise on, then went to an after party at Hotel Covington […]
Posted inElections
Local candidates plead their cases for seats on Kentucky Supreme Court, Court of Appeals
Four local candidates are vying for seats on the Kentucky Supreme Court and the Kentucky Court of Appeals, and they gathered at Northern Kentucky’s Chase College of Law last month to make a final appeal to voters ahead of the Nov. 8 election. Rep. Joe Fischer, of Fort Thomas, and Supreme Court Justice Michelle Keller, […]
Posted inCulture
Diary of a Wimpy Kid author draws fans from all over Tri-State to ‘Loded Diper’ show
Nicole Gilbert brought her sons, Graham and Seamus, complete with concert getups (Nicole wore hers to a recent New Kids on the Block concert), to see Jeff Kinney in Mason on Wednesday night. The Campbell County family said the drive was totally worth it in order to get a signed book from the author of […]