Editorial

Reader responds to article focusing on Political Action Committee CCISD Students First

Letter to the Editor: To Whom It May Concern:                                                                              In your article published on April 29th, you question Inez Faison’s and other individuals’ role in the community effort CCISD Students First.

Company’s coming

In case you didn’t know, there is a major event set to occur on April 8, 2024, that will likely have a huge impact on Copperas Cove residents, businesses, and more. Unless it rains. But we won’t use the “R” word right now.

Who do you like in the Super Bowl?

by "Big Joe" Lombardi Cup O' Joe    Just go ahead and pick one, because with two Texas high schoolers playing quarterback we know it’ll be a good show.

Bulldawg loss was painful to see

by "Big Joe" Lombardi  Cup O' Joe    Imagine this. Our team is playing an old opponent in a very big District 12-6A boys basketball game before the home folks. We're a game behind them in the standings and it's time to make that up.

Of this day beware, if you dare 

by "Big Joe" Lombardi Cup O' Joe   Motown superstar Stevie Wonder said it best when he wrote the song «"here is superstition...” Yeah, I guess some folks are scared of Friday the 13th, but not me. In fact, I’d consider it insulting if someone were to think I was afraid to get out of bed today.

We did New Year’s the Irish way

No, not with that stuff in a bottle, but Sherry and I observed an Emerald Isle custom supposed to guarantee a good year.     Being a quarter-Irish, I knew that at 12:01 a.m. Jan 1st, the old country folks throw open their front doors to let the departing year out and the new one come on in.

A rivalry renewed and some Joey Awards too

Well, I guess you could call it a rivalry, kinda in a way, you might say. Really, though, it was a renewal of a renewal.  That’s clear, huh?

Bulldawg basketball is in the house

Calling all Copperas Cove roundball fans..now hear this! After burning up the highway on a season-starting, two-game road trip, and to borrow a phrase from pro wrestler The Rock (aka Dwayne Johnson)… “Finally! The Dawgs have come back to Copperas Cove!

Lady Dawg volleyball reaches new pinnacle

     Who remembers that day in 2004 when Copperas Cove hired a new head volleyball coach?      Cari Lowery sure does.      That was the day she came to work and found her equipment cupboard almost bare and herself leading a program that hadn’t been too successful.

What’s in a name?

by "Big Joe" Lombardi  Cup O' Joe    Well, my name has a big dose of Italian, while my wife’s moniker is loaded with German and yes, she loves schnitzel, but I can’t stand spaghetti, probably the only Italiano you’ll ever meet that doesn’t like the old country’s signature dish.