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Crossroads High School students participate in Formal Wednesday each week serving as role models to the student body. These students spent their holiday break applying for parttime jobs and finding employment as they wrap up their high school careers.

Crossroads High School students participate in Formal Wednesday each week serving as role models to the student body. These students spent their holiday break applying for parttime jobs and finding employment as they wrap up their high school careers.

Crossroads sets the standard in behavior

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Wed, 12/31/2014 - 08:00
By WENDY SLEDD   Three piece suits, dress shirts and ties for the young men and dresses suitable for church for the girls. This is the standard for almost one-third of the student body at Crossroads High School every Wednesday.

Cove teachers sweeten mathematics lessons

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Fri, 12/26/2014 - 08:51
By WENDY SLEDD   Climbing Gumdrop Mountain, skipping through Lollipops Woods and storming Licorice Castle, Williams-Ledger Elementary School students took a sweet journey through Candyland to increase their math skills.

Rotary Club hosting New Year’s Eve gala

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Fri, 12/26/2014 - 08:50
By LYNETTE SOWELL   Those looking for live entertainment, dinner and dancing on New Year’s Eve won’t have to leave the city on Wednesday to do so. The Copperas Cove Noon Rotary Club is sponsoring a New Year’s Eve Gala to be held at the Copperas Cove Civic Center.
Students at Cove’s Priority Charter School load food they collected for My Brother’s House food pantry.

Students at Cove’s Priority Charter School load food they collected for My Brother’s House food pantry.

Cove Charter Academy collects food for pantry

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Tue, 12/23/2014 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL   A first grade class project focusing on the subject of generosity turned into a schoolwide event at Copperas Cove’s Priority Charter School.

Grinch has students tracking kind acts

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Tue, 12/23/2014 - 05:00
By WENDY SLEDD   There is no bah-humbug in the hallways of Martin Walker Elementary School this season as the students and staff are growing their hearts three sizes larger through the 25 Days of Grinchmas event.
Students of the Clements-Parsons Elementary School Kids Care Club prepare to sing to residents of Hill Country Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Copperas Cove. Students delivered stockings filled with many items to include fruit, snacks, games, cards, and toiletries.

Students of the Clements-Parsons Elementary School Kids Care Club prepare to sing to residents of Hill Country Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Copperas Cove. Students delivered stockings filled with many items to include fruit, snacks, games, cards, and toiletries.

Students visit nursing center, spreading joy for holidays

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Tue, 12/23/2014 - 05:00
By WENDY SLEDD   Twenty students and their families from the Clements-Parsons Elementary School Kids Care Club spread holiday cheer with songs of the season and stockings filled with goodies when they visited the residents of the Hill Country Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Copperas Cove on...
Third grade students in Denise Carmichael’s class at House Creek Elementary School show off their newly published books containing their opinions of bullying. Students were involved in the entire writing process to prepare and create the book including brainstorming a topic as a class and outlining the story elements of the book.

Third grade students in Denise Carmichael’s class at House Creek Elementary School show off their newly published books containing their opinions of bullying. Students were involved in the entire writing process to prepare and create the book including brainstorming a topic as a class and outlining the story elements of the book.

House Creek students are published authors

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Fri, 12/19/2014 - 05:00
By WENDY SLEDD   Reading and writing are two of the staples of education. But, students at House Creek Elementary School have taken it to the next level and can now say they are published authors.

Cove students honored for Excelling in Life

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Fri, 12/19/2014 - 05:00
By WENDY SLEDD   High school students in Copperas Cove, Harker Heights, and Killeen had many reasons to smile. The top 10 students at each area high school were honored for their achievements at the Excelling in Life Program sponsored by Smile at the World Orthodontics and Clem Mikeska’s B-B-Q .
Drainage on the property of a proposed Popeye’s caused the deal to go south.

Drainage on the property of a proposed Popeye’s caused the deal to go south.

Infrastructure problems lead to farewell of Popeye’s on 190

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Fri, 12/19/2014 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL   The future of “Project Sweet & Spicy,” a Popeye’s restaurant on Highway 190, is now up in the air. At Wednesday’s meeting of the Copperas Cove Economic Development Corporation, executive director Polo Enriquez asked the board to remove one particular item from the consent agenda.
Exchangite Frank Seffrood delivers meals to more than 100 seniors who attended the annual appreciation luncheon.

Exchangite Frank Seffrood delivers meals to more than 100 seniors who attended the annual appreciation luncheon.

Seniors appreciated with annual luncheon

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Tue, 12/16/2014 - 05:00
By DAVID MORRIS   Both the Morning and Noon Exchanges Clubs of Copperas Cove came together Sunday to feed the seniors of the community for the 22nd annual Senior Appreciation Luncheon at the Copperas Cove Civic Center.