“As a mom, I know when you’re worried about your children, you can’t get much else done,” said Kentucky First Lady Britainy Beshear at the Brighton Center in Newport on Tuesday. Beshear served as the keynote speaker at an event honoring a donation of over 100,000 diapers and over 1,000 cans of baby formula from […]
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Covington Farmers Market begins 2025 season at new location
The Covington Farmers Market will kick off its 2025 season this weekend at a new location at Washington and Pike Streets in Covington. “With the growing season just ramping up, over 20 vendors will be onsite selling baked goods, early spring vegetables, eggs and meats, herbal remedies, personal hygiene items, cleaning items, home and garden […]
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NKY nonprofit combines passion for music with substance abuse prevention
Sean Kathman knows firsthand the impact of substance abuse disorder. A self-admitted heavy drinker, Kathman said he began his own journey toward recovery after the loss of a loved one. “One of my very best friends, Nick Bungenstock, he passed away from a heroin overdose in 2013,” Kathman said. Now sober, the local nurse and […]
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Newport 7 Brew officially opens
7 Brew, a drive-thru coffee shop chain, celebrated the opening of its new Newport location on Carothers Road on Wednesday with a roughly $8,800 donation to the Newport Aquarium WAVE Foundation. “WAVE Foundation inspires and fosters environmental stewards of aquatic life through education, conservation and volunteerism,” according to the foundation’s website. They officially operate as […]
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Sign up for Saturday’s Great American Cleanup in Covington
Covington residents can now sign up for this Saturday’s Great American Cleanup, the city’s largest annual volunteer event.  “We’re grateful to see the community come together in support of keeping Covington beautiful,” said Jameela Saalah, director of program impact with the Center for Great Neighborhoods, in a press release. “The Great American Cleanup is one […]
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Take a look at Covington’s OneNKY Center as it reaches 70% completion
The Northern Kentucky Port Authority announced that construction on Covington’s OneNKY Center is 70% complete. The OneNKY Center is located at 209 Greenup St. in Covington at the foot of the historic John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge. Construction on the outside of the 47,000 square foot Class A office building is essentially complete, with the […]
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Covington Catholic’s Will Sheets to donate grant award money
Will Sheets, a state champion running athlete at Covington Catholic and Gatorade’s 2024-2025 Kentucky Boys Cross Country Player of the Year, will donate $1,000 of grant money he received for earning the player of the year title to the One Shot Foundation, a local nonprofit that advocates for heart safety (especially in sports) and AED […]
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‘We remain their home once they walk through the doors’ | Brighton Recovery Center helps women fight addiction
When you walk inside the Brighton Recovery Center, there is a memorial wall dedicated to those who have died from drug overdoses. “Most of them, we got to know them, their families came and visit, we got to know their children,” said Janie Hamilton, director of recovery services at Brighton Recovery Center. Hamilton and other […]
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Latonia’s VFW flooded. The man living upstairs didn’t mind.
Areas along the Licking River and Banklick Creek were especially hard hit by the weekend’s flooding. One building, the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Latonia, was one illustrative example. By the time river crested, the building was completely inaccessible by foot – it resembled a castle fort surrounded by a moat. The man upstairs […]
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HOME consortium seeks agency applicants for $700K in grants
The city of Covington and the Northern Kentucky HOME Consortium are seeking nonprofit and social service agency applicants for about $700,000 in federal grants to provide services for vulnerable populations in the region. Covington is a consortium city, meaning it’s automatically allocated a certain amount of federal funding every year in the Northern Kentucky HOME […]
