A school building in Newport is slated to become residential, possibly high-end rental and condos. The Newport Board of Education decided on Monday to accept the bid from Carmel, IN-based CRG Residential in an amount of $2,625,000 for the Newport Intermediate School on Fourth Street. The building currently houses grades 3, 4, and 5. When […]
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After 4-Hour Meeting, City Board Unsure About Glass Building in Historic District
Monday’s urban design review board meeting in Covington lasted four hours, nearly three of which were devoted to the planned expansion and renovation of the Baker Hunt Arts & Cultural Center campus. For the most part, the board and community members were supportive of the plans. The historic buildings on campus will be made more […]
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Beautiful Building in Downtown Covington Getting New Life Thanks to Three Brothers
Covington’s Pike Street is transforming. While a new art wall, woodworking studios, coffee shop, apartments and more have popped up on the far west end of Pike, new life is being breathed into the buildings at one of the most prominent intersections in the city at Pike and Madison on the opposite end of the […]
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Who Was John G. Carlisle?
In Northern Kentucky, the name John G. Carlisle is often associated with the Covington elementary school. John Griffin Carlisle, however, is arguably Covington’s most important native son in national politics, serving as speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1883 to 1889, and Secretary of the Treasury from 1893-1897. Born and […]
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Here’s What the Covington Journal Reported on June 19, 1875
The Covington Journal offered yearly subscriptions to readers for $1 a year that was directly mailed to subscriber’s homes and called their publication “The Old Reliable”. These excerpts are re-published from the Journal’s June 19, 1875 edition as they were written then. Local News Natchez, Mississippi–Last Sunday, the body of a white man, […]
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Fight Over New Building Looms as Baker Hunt Plans $3 Million Campus Projects
Is a structure that is made almost entirely of glass too modern and too out sequence with the surrounding Licking Riverside Historic District? That is the question that will be before the Covington Urban Design Review Board next Monday when the Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center formally makes its approval request for a $3 […]
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With Brewery Boom, Northern Kentucky Returns to Its Roots
The rise in the number of local breweries in Northern Kentucky is a shift from national brands and a return to the region’s roots. According to Covington’s Bicentennial Encyclopedia Gateway City, Covington Kentucky 1815-2015, authored by Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD, James C. Claypool, PhD, and David E. Schroeder, Executive Director of the Kenton County Public […]
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On June 12, 1875, Here’s What the Covington Journal Reported
The news from The Covington Journal on June 12, 1875: SPORTS The Star Base Ball club of this city has come off victorious in every contest this season. It has met only to conquer two clubs at Louisville, and one each at Frankfort, Lexington, Paris and Maysville. Its banners float in the gentle June breeze, […]
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This Looks Like Just Another Downtown Warehouse, but Inside… Wow
An amazing property just hit the residential real estate market in Northern Kentucky — but you may not know if you were just looking from the outside. In downtown Covington, on Ninth Street just off Madison Avenue, surrounded by commercial buildings and businesses, sits a warehouse at the end of the narrow road. The first […]
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Owner: No Immediate Plans for Former Jehovah’s Witness Properties
Most of the east side of the 1900 block of Madison Avenue in Covington is now gravel after three more buildings were razed. 1918, 1924, and 1926 Madison were brought down. Owner Ken Morgan told The River City News that he has no immediate plans for the now vacant site. The three buildings had been purchased by […]
