These listings originally appeared in the July 21 edition of the Weekly LINK Reader. To see these stories first, subscribe here. One of the smallest cities in Northern Kentucky is home to some of the tastiest treats in the area. Silver Grove may be best known for their ice cream, but the city has added other […]
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Open while closed: How Aquaramp Marina stayed in business during Route 8 saga
“Excited and relieved,” is how Aquaramp Marina co-founder Brian Schleper told LINK nky he felt when he learned the portion of Old Route 8, where his business is located, was reopening after a four-year closure. “We never dreamed it would take this long for this to get this going again,” Schleper said. The locally infamous […]
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New Riff founder to retire in 2024 after decades in the alcohol business
Ken Lewis, the founder of New Riff Distillery in Newport, is set to retire in 2024, according to American Whiskey Magazine report. Lewis entered the distilling business in 2014 after selling Party Source, a Bellevue liquor store he founded in 1993. He has spent over 50 years in the alcohol industry. “Well, I think 50 […]
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New Riff Distilling releasing special whiskey to celebrate new Silver Grove Rickhouse
New Riff Distilling commemorates its new Rickhouse in Silver Grove with a whiskey that will also honor a past whiskey released in the 1930s with the Silver Grove name. The company began working on its 55,000-square-foot barrel storage building (Rickhouse) in Silver Grove last April. The warehouse holds 41,000 barrels and is designed for storing […]
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NKY creamy whip spots you’ve got to try
It’s officially spring! Well, technically — and especially for those in the Cincinnati area — spring means one thing: creamy whips. For those not familiar with this odd regional term, creamy whips is just the Cincinnati way of saying soft-serve ice cream — and there are plenty of local spots to get your creamy whip […]
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Silver Grove Dari Bar opening next month
The start of spring is near, with the Dari Bar season upon us. The Northern Kentucky staple will be back in operation on Saturday, March 11. The Dari Bar is a family-owned and operated food and ice cream shop that operates from spring through the end of summer, typically opening in March and closing around Labor […]
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SD1 project aims to eliminate sewage overflow, starting in Campbell County
Sanitation District No. 1 presented a report to the Campbell County Fiscal Court meeting on Feb. 1, highlighting their efforts to mitigate sewage overflow in the region. Part of those efforts is the Clean H2040 project, which consists of equalization tanks to help eliminate sewage overflow. The first tanks built by SD1 are along Route […]
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Silver Grove wins grant to improve electrical infrastructure
The Kentucky League of Cities (KLC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to city management and improvement, recently issued a 2022 Liability Grant to the city of Silver Grove in Campbell County. The city intends to use the funds from the grant to trim excessive tree growth around electrical substations. The Kentucky League of Cities announced the […]
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Changes made to streamline animal services in Campbell County
Cities in Campbell County have entered into an interlocal agreement with the county to dissolve the Northern Kentucky Animal Control Board and enter into a new deal with the fiscal court to provide animal control services. The cities of Bellevue, Cold Spring, Dayton, Fort Thomas, Highland Heights, Melbourne, Silver Grove, Southgate, and Wilder are participating […]
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NKY Cities receive grant funding from regional council of governments
Multiple cities from Campbell, Kenton, and Boone Counties have received grant funding from the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments, also known as OKI, for regional transportation projects. The agency awarded a total of $11.19 million across the three counties; it awarded $69 million in funding across the three states. “$69 million dollars is the largest […]
