Former State. Sen John Schickel’s annual “Pickles and Wieners Feast” is set to return later this month. Schickel, who represented northern Boone County in the Kentucky Senate from 2009 to 2025, hosts an annual dinner fundraiser centered on selling homemade pickles and hot dogs. The event began as a fundraiser for Schickel’s political campaigns before […]
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Vote for the LINK nky Educator of the Week
The LINK nky Educator of the Week contest recognizes and celebrates the incredible educators who go above and beyond for Northern Kentucky students every day. Each week, we will choose three nominees who have made an impact on their community and who represent a diverse mix of roles, grade levels, subject areas, school types and geographic locations. […]
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School ‘spirits’ run high at Dayton Independent Schools’ Paranormal Club
In a darkened room, Trinity Tillett pulls on a cat-shaped eye mask and headphones plugged into a small black device. The device, called a spirit box, jumps around, scanning different radio frequencies and producing words and fragmented phrases. Tillett relays what she hears back to a huddle of other Dayton Independent Schools students, which writes […]
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Kentucky Symphony Orchestra to hold free Labor Day weekend concerts
The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra will hold three free outdoor concerts over Labor Day weekend as part of its annual Summer Series. The concerts will close out the Summer Series annual programming, which will feature 18 songs from the 1950s through the 2010s. The program focuses on popular music about the United States and includes songs […]
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New ‘Swirley’s Soft Serve’ ice cream shop could be coming to Alexandria
Alexandria could soon have a new place to grab a cone of soft serve. Business partners Alex Yocum and Chase Dawson are looking to open “Swirley’s Soft Serve” in the old Campbell Fire Insurance building at 102 Washington St. The Alexandria Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously approved a zone change needed for the shop to open […]
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‘Boozy Book Fair’ to feature Kentucky authors, open mic in Bellevue
Kentuckians For The Commonwealth is partnering with Roebling Books and Darkness Brewing for a Boozy Book Fair fundraiser on Sept. 19 from 3 to 9 p.m. The event will be at Darkness Brewing, located at 224 Fairfield Ave. in Bellevue. It will feature a Boozy Book Fair from Roebling Books from 3 to 7 p.m., […]
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NKU, Clovernook Center invite visitors to touch art in new interactive exhibition
At most art exhibitions, visitors are told not to touch. At Northern Kentucky University’s newest exhibition, touching the art is the point. NKU and Clovernook Center for the Blind & Visually Impaired have partnered to present “Tactile Revolutions: An Exhibit of Art Meant to be Touched,” an interactive exhibition designed to make art more accessible […]
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Second Sight Spirits in Ludlow announces closure
Second Sight Spirits, a distillery and lounge in Ludlow, Kentucky, announced on Thursday that it would be closing at the end of November. The announcement took the form of a video. In it, one of the venue’s owners held up cards delivering information about the closure. One of them gave a list of reasons why […]
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Wooden Cask Brewery closes Newport on the Levee location
Wooden Cask Brewery has quietly closed its Newport on the Levee location. According to co-owner Karen Schiltz, who runs Wooden Cask with her husband Randy, the Levee location’s last day of service was Aug. 17. “We left because our lease had expired and it didn’t make business sense to stay,” Schiltz said. Wooden Cask opened […]
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Erlanger opens new bike park, ‘The Flow’
Erlanger has a new off-road bike park. The Flow held its grand opening late last month. It is part of the city’s 1,000-acre Eons Adventure Park project; the track is located in the hills above the new Amber Run Dog Park, which opened earlier this summer. The city held a grand opening event on Thursday. […]
