The Blue Goose

 In 1972 the Mandeville High School Skippers needed a new bus to bring athletic teams back and forth to games. The old bus had mechanical issues that sometimes stranded football teams halfway home, one time on the Causeway at 2 a.m. 

The chosen remedy was a new Blue Goose. A community-wide effort to raise funds for the purchase of the new bus was instituted, and newspapers gave a week-by-week progress report on the fund-raising.

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Letter to the Editor about the project 

Lyon High Tournament Bound 1940

 In 1940 these are the girls in the Lyon High School basketball team which would represent Covington in the state tournament. Click on the image to make it larger. 

St. Patrick Parade 2026

 The Covington Celtic Club hosted the 2026 St. Patrick's Day Parade on the streets of downtown Covington on Saturday, March 14, 2026. Hundreds of people lined the streets to enjoy the procession, which included bands, dance groups, decorated cars, a couple of Irish wolfhounds and dozens of participants throwing beads, heads of cabbage, and generally making merry.

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Video

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The parade started at the intersection of Columbia and Lockwood streets, went down Columbia to Gibson, then eastward on Gibson to Lee Lane. From there, it travelled south to Rutland and headed west to North New Hampshire, where it ended at Jewel's Cigar Shop with a block cordoned off for partying, cooling off, and talking about the experience. 

Links of Interest:

St. Patrick's Parade 2025

St. Patrick's Day Parade 2023

St. Patrick's Day Parade - 1997

St. Patrick's Day Parade 2019