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KY Forward, a partner of The River City News, has compiled a tremendous collection of coverage leading up to Thursday night's Vice Presidential debate at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. From professors at the school analyzing the political winds to a look back on three Vice Presidents from Kentucky, here is an aggregated collection of […]

If you missed part one of the coverage from Monday night's debate between Covington mayoral candidates Sherry Carran and Steve Casper, both current city commissioners, click here. Part two is below: Casper has spent the past few months pushing an idea to create Bellagio-style fountains In Mainstrasse Village's Goebel Park and along the riverfront. "Bellagio […]

"We ask for your patience and for you to bear with us," City Manager Larry Klein said Tuesday night at the beginning of a two-and-half hour-long meeting of the Covington City Commission. Fifty items made up the lengthy agenda that spelled out the most significant changes to hit City Hall in decades. The full force […]

Tuesday night's City Commission meeting featured an agenda with fifty items on it, including several related to the Covington Police Department and the former 911 emergency dispatch center. Mayor Chuck Scheper and the four commissioners unanimously approved the reduction in the number of sergeant positions from fifteen to fourteen, part of the department's effort to […]

The playground at Sixth District Elementary School in Austinburg that was partially destroyed by fire over the summer will host a grand reopening next Friday, October 18 at 10:00AM. At Tuesday night's City Commission, Jerry Stricker, a former city commissioner, presented a check worth $5,900 to Heather Abbott of the Gateway Community & Technical College […]

This is part one of what will be two parts of coverage from Monday night's Covington mayoral debate. They have spent the past two years voting almost entirely the same way but Covington City Commissioners Sherry Carran and Steve Casper worked Monday night to explain how they would be different in the next four years as mayor. […]

Covington Mayoral candidates and current City Commissioners Sherry Carran and Steve Casper will face off against each other in a debate Monday at the Ninth Street Baptist Church on the Eastside. The forum is free and open to the public. Doors open at 5:30PM so that the public can meet and mingle with the candidates. […]

Over the weekend, the Covington Neighborhood Collaborative invited city commissioners and the city manager to tour various neighborhoods around town and to see first-hand what some of the concerns are for residents. Mayor Chuck Scheper and City Commissioners Sherry Carran, Steve Casper, and Steve Frank attended along with City Manager Larry Klein, who noted during […]

Six of the eight candidates vying for four seats on the Covington City Commission participated in a candidates forum at the American Legion Hall in Latonia last Wednesday. Part one of the coverage of this event covered issues ranging from Mayor Chuck Scheper's performance in office to the proposed Walgreen's that would require the razing […]

The Covington Education Association has announced its endorsmenets for the Board of Education race. Of the ten candidates in the field, the CEA has chosen to support incumbent Glenda Huff, and first-time candidates Joyce Baker and Kerry Holleran. "We have endorsed Joyce Baker, Kerry Holleran, and Glenda Huff as the strongest supporters of public schools […]