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CCISD/Courtesy Photo - Members of the Copperas Cove High School Band will join with other bands from throughout the area as well as the Heights Concert Band for the Central Texas Music Festival which opens on Tuesday.

CCISD/Courtesy Photo - Members of the Copperas Cove High School Band will join with other bands from throughout the area as well as the Heights Concert Band for the Central Texas Music Festival which opens on Tuesday.

Central Texas Music Festival returns to Cove

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Fri, 01/29/2016 - 05:00
By DEBORAH KELLEY Special to Leader-Press   The Copperas Cove High School Band in partnership with The Band Room and CCISD hosts the 13th Annual Central Texas Music Festival beginning next Monday, February 1, and culminating on Saturday, February 6, at the Lea Ledger Auditorium in Copperas...

JROTC Bulldawg battalion takes a bite of the competition in Waco

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Fri, 01/29/2016 - 05:00
By DONAVON RITCHIE Special to Leader-Press   Copperas Cove JROTC cadets rose and shone before the sun, but there were not headed to morning physical training. The CCHS Bulldawg Battalion boarded a bus to Waco High School. The drive was quiet, but the positivity was obvious.
CCLP/DAVID J. HARDIN - Three Copperas Cove teachers swept the VFW District 14 Teacher of the Year awards and were honored in Killeen on Saturday.

CCLP/DAVID J. HARDIN - Three Copperas Cove teachers swept the VFW District 14 Teacher of the Year awards and were honored in Killeen on Saturday.

VFW District 14 honors Teachers of the Year

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Tue, 01/26/2016 - 05:00
By DAVID J. HARDIN Cove Leader-Press   On Saturday, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9191 in Killeen held their VFW district 14 meeting. The district includes posts from Copperas Cove, Harker Heights, Belton, Temple, Marble Falls, Kempner, Gatesville, Lampasas, Killeen and Burnet.
CCLP/PAMELA GRANT - Texas Virtual Academy student, Alex McVade, and his mother, Thelma McVade enjoy the arcade games at MAKS Fun Center. The two were there as part of the school’s celebration of National School Choice Week.

CCLP/PAMELA GRANT - Texas Virtual Academy student, Alex McVade, and his mother, Thelma McVade enjoy the arcade games at MAKS Fun Center. The two were there as part of the school’s celebration of National School Choice Week.

Online academies celebrate National School Choice Week

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Tue, 01/26/2016 - 05:00
By PAMELA GRANT Cove Leader-Press   Student members of online academies were able to meet and interact socially while having fun and exchanging ideas at MAKS Fun Center.
CCISD/Courtesy Photo - CCHS students Brigette Bien, Victor Vazquez and Peyton Watt show off their medals and ribbons won at the UIL academic meet in Burnet on Saturday. The CCHS academic team heads to Lampasas for another competition this weekend.

CCISD/Courtesy Photo - CCHS students Brigette Bien, Victor Vazquez and Peyton Watt show off their medals and ribbons won at the UIL academic meet in Burnet on Saturday. The CCHS academic team heads to Lampasas for another competition this weekend.

CCHS academics team sharpens skills, prepares for district

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Fri, 01/22/2016 - 05:00
By NATALIE MARSHALL Special to Leader-Press   Copperas Cove High School students competed in an area University Interscholastic League Academics meet walking away with several awards.
CCISD/Courtesy Photo - CCHS FFA member Colton Christman shares information about one of his livestock projects with CCISD gifted education first graders during a field trip to the CCISD Agriculture Barn. Christman raises chickens and hogs.

CCISD/Courtesy Photo - CCHS FFA member Colton Christman shares information about one of his livestock projects with CCISD gifted education first graders during a field trip to the CCISD Agriculture Barn. Christman raises chickens and hogs.

CCISD students get hands-on lessons in the barnyard

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Fri, 01/15/2016 - 05:00
Special to Leader-Press   As the Coryell County Fair got underway this week, CCISD gifted education students enjoyed a private livestock show of their own to enhance their learning opportunities.
CCISD/Courtesy Photo - S.C. Lee Junior High student Tyler Price uses his phone as a light saber as part of a lesson in computer coding as part of the national Hour of Code event.

CCISD/Courtesy Photo - S.C. Lee Junior High student Tyler Price uses his phone as a light saber as part of a lesson in computer coding as part of the national Hour of Code event.

Librarians use Star Wars popularity for out of this world lessons plans

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Fri, 01/15/2016 - 05:00
Special to Leader-Press   Boys and girls, no matter their age, are imagining themselves as Han Solo, Luke Skywalker or the new female heroine, Rey, fighting the first order in the latest installment in the Star Wars movie series.