In this week's mugshot round-up, Kenton County Prosecutor Rob Sanders weighs in on what was quite a busy week and answers a couple more questions about the long list of people sent away to prison, put on probation, or who skipped out on court last week. RCN: Looks like 37 convictions last week which […]
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NKU Hires Covington’s Volpe to Lead Small Business Development Center
Rebecca Volpe will be leaving the City of Covington's community development department where she has served as busisness recruitment and retention specialist. Her resignation will be accepted at Tuesday's Covington City Commission meeting. Volpe is moving on to work at Northern Kentucky University where she will lead the Small Business Development Center. NKU sent out […]
Kentucky Lottery Drawings Moved to Internet from TV
As a result of the changes in this landscape, we are making a big change to our nightly drawing program. Starting in the next few weeks, we will no longer be airing our drawing on broadcast TV stations. Instead, drawings will be streamed live and archived on the Kentucky Lottery’s website.
Youth Foundation gets $10,000 from Covington Commissioner
It must be check-writing season for Covington City Commissioner Steve Frank. The first-term Commissioner, who is up for reelection in November, wrote a pair of $2,000 checks to two firefighters for winning Frank's online contest that solicited suggestions that could save or make the city money. The winning suggestion was about raising collection fees for […]
All Kentucky State Courts Closed Tuesday for Furlough
This affects County Courthouses. From a Commonwealth of Kentucky press release: Judicial centers will be closed statewide and all court services will be unavailable Tuesday, Sept. 4, as the Kentucky Judicial Branch shuts down for the second of three furlough days in 2012. The court system also will be closed on Monday, Sept. 3, to observe […]
Full Agenda for Tuesday’s Covington Commission Meeting
The Covington City Commission will convene for a legislative meeting on Tuesday and the agenda is full of important and significant items. Take a look at what to expect: Acting Fire Chief Dan Mathew will present an update on the fire department's efforts to respond to the City's request to cut $500,000 from its budget […]
Creation Museum Fires Back at “Science Guy”
Bill Nye the Science Guy's recent video that criticized the idea of "creationism" has been met with a response by the leader of the Boone County-based Creation Museum. On his YouTube page, Nye wrote, "Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. …if grownups want to deny evolution and […]
City Commissioner Writes Checks to Contest Winners
Covington City Commissioner Steve Frank made good on his promise to pay $2,000 for an idea that could help save or make the city some money. The first-term commissioner solicited input from citizens and then allowed a lengthy list of ideas to be voted on by the public. Frank ended up writing two winning checks […]
Downtown Covington nightspot closes for good
The Avenue Lounge and Patio is no more, celebrating its final night in operation Thursday. No reason was offered publicly, but Facebook lit up late last night as fans of the lounge expressed their sadness over its closing.
Covington Business Council makes new hire
Congratulations to the CBC's Elizabeth Fricke who has been hired as the organization's administrative manager. She will also serve in that role for the Urban Partnership. Fricke is a graduate student at Northern Kentucky University in the Public Administration program and also serves as a Kenton Vale city council member. She is a graduate of […]

