By Jill Morenz The Catalytic Fund The Ascent at Roebling’s Bridge is a significant feature of the Northern Kentucky skyline. The architect, Daniel Libeskind, envisioned it as “a living, breathing piece of art that stirs the soul and lifts the spirit.” This week’s episode of Beyond the Curb: River City Living takes viewers inside the…
Tailor Lofts in Newport is an apartment building like no other in Northern Kentucky. Episode 3 of Beyond the Curb’s virtual home tour series highlights the stunning mix of old and new elements in one of the loft units. The building that houses Tailor Lofts was constructed in 1903 as Eilerman Department Store. The first…
Shooting fish with bows and arrows is most popular in late spring and summer after water conditions stabilize, and surface temperatures rise above 70 degrees. The target species are rough fish and they are abundant, so opportunities abound. Ideal conditions are clear and stable water levels. A sharply falling water level pulls fish off the…
The sun was shining but the air reeked of frustration and failure. It was June 17, 1994 – and barge workers on the Covington riverfront had just broken the handle of a sledgehammer, unsuccessfully pried with a massive wrench, and finally tapped the strength of a massive crane to loosen the last of 48 bolts…
Beyond the Curb’s second episode of Season Two of the popular River City Living home tour video series features a condo in Ludlow’s River’s Breeze community. Each of the colorful accessories that enliven the décor has a story behind it. Owner Charmaine Kessinger loves to be surrounded by things that remind her of family members,…
The Catalytic Fund’s video home tours were a successful COVID-19 pivot from the organization’s usual in-person Beyond the Curb tours. The twenty episodes in the first season showcased a wide variety of living situations in NKY’s urban river cities, including historic mansions, luxury condos, modern apartments and small houses, all packed with personality and style….
The popular Purple People Bridge, a pedestrian-only bridge connection Newport and Cincinnati, closed on Tuesday after a stone reportedly fell from a bridge pier into the Ohio River. Apparently the stone loosened a stone beneath it. The Newport Southbank Bridge Company was informed by The Newport Police that the bridge will be temporarily closed to…
By Ryan Clark NKyTribune reporter Almost — 98 percent — complete. That’s what representatives from the Riverfront Commons Plaza project reported Tuesday night at the city’s regularly scheduled commission meeting. “Minor cosmetic things,” remain unfinished they said, like sod placement and some concrete. Mike Prus, product design engineer for Prus Construction, which is in charge…
The Gateway Flats at Manhattan Harbour — a lifestyle community — will be showcased during the May 8 River Days Festival in Dayton. Manhattan Harbour features a mile of riverfront with sweeping views toward downtown Cincinnati. The residential community is a 1.5-mile walk to downtown Cincinnati and includes a three-mile riverfront trail loop that’s part of…
Editor’s Note: This is the 19th article in an ongoing series about Kentucky’s major reservoirs. Barren River Lake is about 10 miles southwest of Glasgow, KY, in Barren, Monroe, and Allen Counties. The lake was impounded from the Barren River, a 135-mile long tributary to the Green River. The main access highways are U.S. 31E,…
It’s a sure sign of spring. The pinks, whites, greens and purples of flowering trees and shrubs along Kentucky’s roadways will increasingly be complemented by the bright orange and yellow barrels, cones and “high-vis” vests and helmets of highway construction and maintenance crews, working to repair and enhance Kentucky’s roads, highways, landscapes and utilities. The…
Editor’s Note: This is the 18th article in an ongoing series about Kentucky’s major reservoirs. Rough River Lake is in west-central Kentucky, about 16 miles northwest of Leitchfield, KY in Breckinridge, Hardin, and Grayson Counties. Construction began in November 1955 and the lake was completed in June 1961. The dam is 89.3 miles above the…
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) has announced that a public meeting will be held as planning for improvements to the KY 8 Licking River Bridge Project continues. A key objective of the meeting is to provide an overview of the project. The meeting will also initiate the Section 106 Consulting Party process, which is a…
This is the 16th article in an ongoing series about Kentucky’s major reservoirs. Nolin River Lake is in Edmonson, Grayson, Hardin, and Hart Counties, about 17 miles south of Leitchfield, KY. The dam is on Ky. 728, 7.8 miles upstream from the Nolin River’s confluence with the Green River. The lake is just a short…
Northern Kentucky University School of the Arts (SOTA) is bringing ceramic exhibitions to its Main Gallery in the Fine Arts Center. Presented by current and former faculty members, Rivers Connect: Unstoppable Forces in Contemporary Ceramics exhibition are on display through April 2. Rivers Connect collectively serves as a metaphor for humanity’s relationship to the natural…
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet crews will begin treating for noxious and nuisance weeds throughout the state this month. The treatments aid in controlling the spread of undesirable plants along state highway rights of way to improve driver safety and ensure efficient maintenance operations. The Cabinet, in accordance with KRS 176.051, targets Johnson grass, giant foxtail, Canada…
The arrival of Daylight Saving Time this weekend means one less hour of sleep and the potential for more sleepy drivers on the road. AAA is reminding drivers to adjust their clock and sleeping habits to make sure they’re alert behind the wheel. (Don’t forget to move your clocks forward one hour.) According to a…
For centuries, the Ohio River has been a main thoroughfare for travelers and industry, tracing the border of Northern Kentucky on its way from Pennsylvania to the Mississippi. But the trip has not always been a smooth one. Sometimes the river would fall to a level so low people could walk across it from Covington…
Gov. Andy Beshear has announced the opening of a Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) Regional Driver Licensing Office in Burlington. It replaces a smaller office in Florence and makes it more convenient for residents of Northern Kentucky to obtain a REAL ID-compliant license or identification card, as well as standard-issue credentials. The new Burlington site is…
With scant inches of space between his mirrors and the parked cars on either side, Jason Roberts slowly maneuvered his Ford 250 down 28th Street, his plow scraping the road free of freshly fallen snow. It was nearly midnight, Roberts was almost six hours into what promised to be a 16-hour shift, and he was…
BB Riverboats owns and operates three U.S. licensed and certified vessels: The Belle of Cincinnati, 1,000 passengers; the River Queen, 500 passengers; and the Mark Twain, 150 passengers. For more than 40 years, my family has operated cruises, events centers and restaurants on the Ohio River. We have worked tirelessly to bring visitors, events and…
Taft Law has named partner Robert K. McBride to succeed Robert B. Craig as partner-in-charge of the firm’s Northern Kentucky office. Effective Jan. 1, McBride’s appointment will include overseeing client development, recruiting, and strategy for the Taft Northern Kentucky office, which recently moved locations to better serve its clients. “Taft is on a strong upward…
