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The curved flower bed

News Staff
Fri, 01/27/2017 - 05:00
Joyce Friels   Irises tend to look shaggy and it is hard to keep debris out of their foliage after a few years. The blooms become smaller and not as attractive. At that time they need to be dug up, divided and planted at another location.
COURTESY PHOTO - Mae Stevens Early Learning Academy principal Mary Derrick cuts the ribbon on the school’s new playground surrounded by school staff and CCISD superintendent Joe Burns and deputy superintendent Rick Kirkpatrick.

COURTESY PHOTO - Mae Stevens Early Learning Academy principal Mary Derrick cuts the ribbon on the school’s new playground surrounded by school staff and CCISD superintendent Joe Burns and deputy superintendent Rick Kirkpatrick.

Mae Stevens cuts ribbon on new playground

News Staff
Fri, 01/20/2017 - 06:20
Special to Leader-Press   A bus, a car, jungle gym and slide. CCISD’s youngest scholars squealed with excitement not knowing where to play first.
CLP/LYNETTE SOWELL - Jay Manning takes the oath of office for Copperas Cove city council place 4 at Tuesday night’s city council workshop.

CLP/LYNETTE SOWELL - Jay Manning takes the oath of office for Copperas Cove city council place 4 at Tuesday night’s city council workshop.

Council approves new lease for Star Group – VHV

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Fri, 01/20/2017 - 06:16
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   The Copperas Cove city council voted unanimously Tuesday evening to approve a new lease for Star Group - Veterans Helping Veterans for the site of the former police station at 202 S. 4th Street. This new lease goes from Feb. 10, 2017 until Feb. 9, 2019.

School board receives annual academic report

News Staff
Fri, 01/13/2017 - 05:00
By BRITTANY FHOLER Cove Leader-Press   The Copperas Cove Independent School District board of trustees held a public hearing to share the district’s annual Texas Academic Performance Report, with their regular monthly meeting following at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Administration Building on W.

City to see larger sales tax check for January

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Fri, 01/13/2017 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   The City of Copperas Cove will see a fatter sales tax rebate for January 2017 than it in January 2016,   The check, in the amount of $346,873.12, is 11.57 percent more than the city received at the beginning of last year.
Rabbit Fest Ambassador Edith Natividad, Junior Miss Rabbit Fest Kaydence Weary, and Junior Mister Rabbit Fest Keli’l Natividad place non-perishable items in the Blessing Box. Edith Natividad built and erected the outdoor pantry which allows donations to be received 24 hours a day and for those who are hungry to receive food when the soup kitchen is closed.

Rabbit Fest Ambassador Edith Natividad, Junior Miss Rabbit Fest Kaydence Weary, and Junior Mister Rabbit Fest Keli’l Natividad place non-perishable items in the Blessing Box. Edith Natividad built and erected the outdoor pantry which allows donations to be received 24 hours a day and for those who are hungry to receive food when the soup kitchen is closed.

Royalty reflect on service and growth in 2016

News Staff
Tue, 01/10/2017 - 10:35
CPE Decades Music Concert: Clements/Parsons Elementary 4th and 5th grade students presented forty years of music in a two hour concert in Lea Ledger Auditorium. The students are under the direction of music teachers Ivan Calzada and Tino Sanchez.
CPE Decades Music Concert: Clements/Parsons Elementary 4th and 5th grade students presented forty years of music in a two hour concert in Lea Ledger Auditorium. The students are under the direction of music teachers Ivan Calzada and Tino Sanchez.

CPE Decades Music Concert: Clements/Parsons Elementary 4th and 5th grade students presented forty years of music in a two hour concert in Lea Ledger Auditorium. The students are under the direction of music teachers Ivan Calzada and Tino Sanchez.

Clements/Parsons students are rocking through the decades

News Staff
Tue, 01/10/2017 - 10:29
Elvis Presley’s gyrating hips. Michael Jackson’s single glove. Poodle skirts of the 50’s. Students at Clements/Parsons Elementary not only got a history lesson through music, but they decided specifically what they would learn and what they would present to the public.
CCLP/LYNETTE SOWELL - Unwind! Texas Style Café opened in late November, but is having its grand opening and ribbon cutting on Tuesday night from 5-8 p.m. The bistro is located at 175 W. Business 190 Suite 4.

CCLP/LYNETTE SOWELL - Unwind! Texas Style Café opened in late November, but is having its grand opening and ribbon cutting on Tuesday night from 5-8 p.m. The bistro is located at 175 W. Business 190 Suite 4.

Unwind! grand opening set for Tuesday

News Staff
Fri, 01/06/2017 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   Unwind! Texas Style tasting room and café is the newest addition to the Frontier Hills Shopping Center and is holding its grand opening on Tuesday, Jan. 10 from 5-8 p.m.   At 6 p.m.
CCLP/LYNETTE SOWELL - Nick Pierce surveys the space that will make up part of the new gym for Fierce Pierce Gymnastics. The gym is moving from Lampasas to Copperas Cove and expects to reopen at their new location within the next two weeks.

CCLP/LYNETTE SOWELL - Nick Pierce surveys the space that will make up part of the new gym for Fierce Pierce Gymnastics. The gym is moving from Lampasas to Copperas Cove and expects to reopen at their new location within the next two weeks.

Lampasas gymnastics center moving to Copperas Cove

News Staff
Fri, 01/06/2017 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   Nick and Monica Pierce, owners of Fierce-Pierce Gymnastics in Lampasas, are moving their gym from its present location to the former site of GymKix at 815 E. Bus. 190 in Copperas Cove.
File Photo - Members of the Fort Hood Spouses Club present a check for $2,000 to the Coryell County Rainbow Room based in Copperas Cove. The facility provides clothing, shoes and more to children who have been removed from their home by Child Protective Services.

File Photo - Members of the Fort Hood Spouses Club present a check for $2,000 to the Coryell County Rainbow Room based in Copperas Cove. The facility provides clothing, shoes and more to children who have been removed from their home by Child Protective Services.

Chamber holds 36th annual Rabbit Fest, Spouses Club donates to local groups

News Staff
Fri, 12/30/2016 - 05:00
The Copperas Cove Chamber of Commerce saw more changes in April and May 2016, after its board hired an interim president, Joe Newman.