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Out-of-town visitors are often surprised to learn how close Cincinnati is to Kentucky, it seems, and are even more surprised to learn that in addition to the great things happening in the Queen City, there are plenty of awesome goings-on over on this side of the river, too. The publisher of a blog called Baby Bloomr  recently […]

Out-of-town visitors are often surprised to learn how close Cincinnati is to Kentucky, it seems, and are even more surprised to learn that in addition to the great things happening in the Queen City, there are plenty of awesome goings-on over on this side of the river, too. The publisher of a blog called Baby Bloomr  recently […]

Just minutes after noon on Saturday the ground began to shake in Covington and a question issued at The River City News Facebook page about whether anyone else felt it was met with lots of answers in the affirmative. According to the United States Geological Survey a 4.3 magnitude earthquake began near Whitesburg, a small town […]

Just minutes after noon on Saturday the ground began to shake in Covington and a question issued at The River City News Facebook page about whether anyone else felt it was met with lots of answers in the affirmative. According to the United States Geological Survey a 4.3 magnitude earthquake began near Whitesburg, a small town […]

Political, business, and education leaders filled the Grand in Downtown Covington Friday to tout a new program that aims to have one-hundred percent of all the region's third-graders reading on grade level by 2020. Newly named President of the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Santa Ono, and Covington businessman Brent Cooper, of C-Forward, offered the keynote […]

Political, business, and education leaders filled the Grand in Downtown Covington Friday to tout a new program that aims to have one-hundred percent of all the region's third-graders reading on grade level by 2020. Newly named President of the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Santa Ono, and Covington businessman Brent Cooper, of C-Forward, offered the keynote […]

The results of Kentucky's new K-PREP standardized test placed Covington Independent Public Schools at the bottom statewide. At Thursday's meeting of the Covington Board of Education, district staff presented how they intend to work with that data and how they will work to improve the scores. Superintendent Lynda Jackson said she and staff members are […]

The results of Kentucky's new K-PREP standardized test placed Covington Independent Public Schools at the bottom statewide. At Thursday's meeting of the Covington Board of Education, district staff presented how they intend to work with that data and how they will work to improve the scores. Superintendent Lynda Jackson said she and staff members are […]

This story has been updated in a separate article: Click Here More than twenty local mayors and 150 local business leaders will have lunch in Covington Friday afternoon for a discussion about improving education in the region. The Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, Strive, the Nothern Kentucky Education Council, and the Greater Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber […]

This story has been updated in a separate article: Click Here More than twenty local mayors and 150 local business leaders will have lunch in Covington Friday afternoon for a discussion about improving education in the region. The Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, Strive, the Nothern Kentucky Education Council, and the Greater Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber […]