The Sunday Morning Club will host its 36th annual free Christmas Day Dinner at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington on Dec. 25. And one thing is clear, said Sunday Morning Club Treasurer Tom Hall, “We need all the volunteers we can get.” This is the first year since the onset of the pandemic […]
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Audit reveals Covington Schools’ reliance on state funding
Audit documents and discussions surrounding them in November and December shined a light on Covington Independent Public Schools’ reliance on state funding. Attention to rising compliance costs and costs related to facility construction also stood out the board’s talks on district finances. “I’m mad,” said Board of Education President Tom Haggard at the December meeting. […]
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Ludlow School renovations approach finish line with new contract approvals
Ludlow Independent Public Schools approved 16 contracts for their district-wide school renovations at the meeting of the Board of Education on Thursday, bringing the project’s funding and administrative framework into its final stages. “The contractors aren’t waiting on [the board] to do anything,” said Bill Cobb, a project manager from Codell Construction, the firm responsible […]
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Facility services provider to move into Covington Station
City Wide Facility Solutions, a Fort Mitchell-based commercial facility service provider, will relocate its headquarters to local landmark Covington Station on Pike Street next year. “I love the history behind the building,” CEO and President Brent Degenhardt told LINK nky. “Our intent is to maintain that history.” City Wide provides various facility management services to […]
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Housing Authority of Covington, city to merge housing voucher program
The City of Covington and the Housing Authority of Covington will begin merging the city’s housing choice voucher program into the housing authority at next week’s commission meeting, following a request from the city’s Neighborhood Services Department on Tuesday. The commission placed a resolution to begin the consolidation onto next week’s consent agenda, meaning it […]
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Zoning approved for development on former site of Drawbridge Inn in Fort Mitchell
The Kenton County Planning Commission unanimously voted last week to approve a zoning change for a 26-acre parcel of land for a development at the former site of the Drawbridge Inn in Fort Mitchell. The land is located along Buttermilk Pike, Royal Drive, Grace Avenue and Interstates 71 and 75 and contains 5 land parcels […]
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Kenton County mayors, state lawmakers discuss possible NKY police academy
The Kenton County Mayors group discussed the possibility of a police training academy in the Northern Kentucky region at their meeting Saturday morning. The discussions picked up from a presentation from Taylor Mill Police Chief James Mills Jr. at the mayor’s meeting last month, where Mills briefed the mayors on the logistical challenges of setting […]
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Erlanger City Council receives anonymous letter calling attention to road conditions
The Erlanger City Council and mayor recently received an anonymous letter that called attention to the condition of some of the roads in the city. Council member Tyson Hermes presented the letter, which arrived at the building in November, to the other council members at the meeting on Tuesday. The author provided neither a name […]
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Covington resident calls for city commission to support ceasefire in Gaza
Mohammad Ahmad, a Covington resident of Palestinian descent, called upon the Covington Board of Commissioners to pass a resolution supporting a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip at meetings on Nov. 21 and Dec. 5. “I’m a proud Palestinian-American Muslim,” Ahmad said in his address to the commission members on Nov. 21. “So as you can […]
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Independence City Council continues to revise potential trailer regulations
The Independence City Council continued discussions about city regulations of utility trailers at their meeting Monday night, following a vote from the Kenton County Planning Commission in November to table discussions on revisions to the city’s ordinance. Independence began regulating trailers in the 2000s after the city’s code enforcement department started getting complaints about trailers […]
