NEWPORT, Ky. — Newport’s well-known World Peace Bell is moving to a new but temporary home on Thursday, the city has announced.
Thursday morning, at around 10 a.m., crews with Maxim Crane and Hosea Project Movers will carefully move the giant bell from its York Street home of nearly 25 years to the Newport Public Works lot at East 11th Street and Saratoga Street.
Newport Police will also be there to help with oversight and planning — including Newport Police Captain Kevin Drohan, who was on the police detail that escorted the bell into Newport when it arrived in 1999.
According to the city, while the bell is being moved one block of Monmouth Street will be closed and no parking will be permitted along the bell’s route beginning at 9:30 a.m. Thursday morning.
The bell will travel from York Street east on East 5th Street, then south on Monmouth …