The 410, Horizon Community Funds’ newest giving circle, has selected a local nonprofit for its inaugural round of funding. Members of The 410 voted to fund Southbank Partners’ upcoming mural project, which will commemorate the city of Newport’s 225th anniversary in 2020. “We are excited for the work that our members of The 410 have…
Part 7 of our series, “Resilience and Renaissance: Newport, Kentucky, 1795-2020” By Paul A. Tenkotte Special to NKyTribune More than a decade before John A. Roebling’s graceful suspension bridge spanned the Ohio River between Cincinnati and Covington, a suspension bridge connected Covington and Newport, Kentucky. Located at Fourth Street in Covington, where the Veterans Memorial…
The Kenton County Grand Jury indicted two sixteen-year-old juveniles for the August shooting death of Ke’Ovion Markel Seay Tevis in the parking lot of a Covington apartment complex. Brandon M. Hambrick and Deangelo Smith-Jones, both of Newport, each face a single count of Complicity to Murder. Commonwealth’s Attorney Rob Sanders said each defendant qualifies as…
By Russ Thomas Special to NKyTribune Part 6 of our series, “Resilience and Renaissance: Newport, Kentucky, 1795-2020” I wonder how many people headed south across the I-471 bridge look to the right and notice a huge house sitting behind the Riverfront Place, looking for all the world like a normal person trying to hide in…
Part 5 of our series, “Resilience and Renaissance: Newport, Kentucky, 1795-2020” By Steve Preston What do Meriwether Lewis (of Lewis and Clark fame), President William Henry Harrison, President Zachary Taylor, Zebulon Pike, Sam Walker (namesake of the Walker Colt Pistol), Robert E. Lee, and General William Tecumseh Sherman all have in common? At one time…
Covington Mayor Joe Meyer and Gateway Community & Technical College President Dr. Fernando Figueroa came together today to stress the importance of creating a more highly skilled workforce in Covington. “With so many of our local residents underemployed, Gateway is committed to providing the education training that residents in the river cities need,” Figueroa said….
By Ginger Dawson NKyTribune reporter How on earth does a French woman, born and raised in Paris, end up living in Covington, Kentucky? Now, I didn’t say Paris, Kentucky. I mean Paris, France. Catherine Hayden started learning English at the age of eleven years. It was apparent, early on, that she had a great…
The City of Bellevue will make nearly $1 million in road and sidewalk improvements to Donnermeyer Drive – one of the city’s key transportation corridors – that will make the road and sidewalks safer, more attractive, and more pedestrian and biker friendly. OKI Regional Council of Governments recently approved $792,000 in federal funds for the…
Between 1.25 and 1.5 million people experienced BLINK in 2019, making the event the largest event in the region’s history. Those figures, estimated by public safety and event consultants, are an increase over the attendance estimates of 2017, and mark the largest crowds ever in Downtown Cincinnati, Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine neighborhood and Covington, Kentucky. “BLINK was…
By Maridith Yahl NKyTribune reporter Quilts are wonderful for snuggling in on a cold winter night, but they can also be a beautiful work of art. The Federal Census Bureau gave the Kentucky Extension Homemakers Association (KEHA) a challenge for the upcoming 2020 census. To celebrate our diversities across the state and the unique qualities…
If you love secrets and you love Halloween, this fundraising tour is for you. Inspired by the recent book, Secret Cincinnati, the Spooky Secrets Tour was created by the book’s author, Kathy Witt, and Jill Morenz, who leads the NKY Public Arts Network. Proceeds from the tour will go to Welcome House of Northern Kentucky….
Wedding design company OKOTA, along with partners Stockyard Bank, the Catalytic Fund and the City of Covington, celebrated the grand opening of its new Covington space at 266 Pike Street with a ribbon-cutting last week. Formerly home to a bar, the building at 266 Pike Street has undergone a dramatic makeover. It is now the…
Urban Appalachian creative spirit is alive and well in the Cincinnati region. In variety-show style, the community’s most dynamic Appalachian musicians, singers, storytellers, poets, spoken word artists, and dancers will express the diversity of Cincinnati’s Appalachian cultural heritage at the Express: Urban Appalachian Showcase on October 24, 7-9 p.m. at the Aronoff Center’s Jarson-Kaplan Theater….
Northern Kentucky University’s School of the Arts will be at the Cincinnati BLINK 2019 Art & Light Festival with a unique concert collaboration entitled “LightStreams” tonight at 9 p.m. at Smale Riverfront Park (east of Roebling Suspension Bridge on the Ohio side of the river). Experience the dynamic effects of movement and color of…
By Ginger Dawson NKyTribune reporter Spanky Caudill is a 20th Century man. MID 20th Century man. Spanky (Sean, actually) came by his nick-name from a school gym teacher who said he reminded her of Spanky — the precocious character played by George “Spanky” McFarland in the Our Gang movies (later syndicated for TV as The Little…
NKyTribune staff BLINK, in partnership with B&H Photo Video, will host free photo walks for the BLINK community to sharpen their street art photography skills during afternoon and evening hours as BLINK’s murals come to life. Registration is now open for walks in Cincinnati’s Over the Rhine neighborhood, Oct. 10 & 11, and in Covington,…
In a new partnership, Imagine Health is expanding access to healthcare and reducing costs by 15-20 percent for employers and employees across Northern Kentucky. Imagine Health offers self-funded employers an alternative to traditional healthcare plans. Through partnerships with quality health systems, built-in cost controls and advanced member advocacy services, Imagine Health delivers immediate and long-term savings,…
The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge will be closed to vehicular traffic the next few evenings – starting tonight (Monday, Oct. 7) – as artists and engineers prepare the historic span for its “massive moment of shared art” at the four-day BLINK light, art and music event. City officials are reminding drivers of the Kentucky…
Part 2: More ways to plan your BLINK experience BLINK’s inaugural four-night event in October 2017 spanned 20 blocks and was experienced by more than one million visitors, the largest gathering of people ever in downtown Cincinnati and Over-the-Rhine. This year expect bigger and better as BLINK expands into Covington, thanks to a grant from…
BLINK®, illuminated by ArtsWave, is the largest light, art and culture event of its kind in the nation, coming to downtown Cincinnati and Covington on October 10-13. The event will span 30-city blocks from Covington, crossing the river, through Downtown Cincinnati and into Over-the-Rhine and the Findlay Market neighborhood. BLINK will transform the Cincinnati Region…
At the direction of President Thomas Jefferson, Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend Second Lieutenant William Clark visited Big Bone Lick in the early 1800s to gather the fossilized remains of mammoths and mastodons during their four-year expedition across the western portion of the United States. Unfortunately, their initial finds were lost when the riverboat they were shipped…
When people think of Kentucky, things like horses, bluegrass, and bourbon come to mind. At the top of the mind right now is the first Kentucky’s Edge Bourbon Conference & Festival which starts tomorrow and runs through Saturday when a sold-out signature conference with Bourbon All-Stars takes place at the NKY Convention Center. The fun starts…
