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Courtesy Photo - The Grammy-nominated Bluegrass Band, White Dove, will headline the Feb. 4 show at the monthly Pearl 1st Saturday Bluegrass Music Jam. Pearl is approximately 25 miles north of Topsey.

Courtesy Photo - The Grammy-nominated Bluegrass Band, White Dove, will headline the Feb. 4 show at the monthly Pearl 1st Saturday Bluegrass Music Jam. Pearl is approximately 25 miles north of Topsey.

Pearl to host Grammy-nominated bluegrass band

News Staff
Fri, 02/03/2017 - 05:00
Special to Leader-Press   White Dove, an award-winning band from Sealy, Texas, will be the featured artists on Saturday, February 4 at the free Pearl Bluegrass 1st Saturday Jam & Stage Show.   All Saturday afternoon, from 12:15 p.m. until 5 p.m.

Parks topic of discussion at town hall meeting

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Fri, 02/03/2017 - 05:00
By BRITTANY FHOLER Cove Leader-Press   The Copperas Cove Parks and Recreation Department discussed and shared updates on the department’s projects that are part of the city’s capital improvement plan at their third town hall meeting held last Thursday at the Copperas Cove Civic Center.

The curved flower bed

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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

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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

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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.