First-year Halstead teacher gets classroom makeover

By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   Halstead Elementary School second grade teacher Katherine Barker walked into a surprise on Thursday morning when she entered her classroom.

Annual Stuff the Bus brings in more than $33,000 in school supplies

By BRITTANY FHOLER  Cove Leader-Press  The 4th annual Stuff the Bus started off with a ribbon cutting and cheer from Wal-Mart employees Friday morning in front of the blue Copperas Cove Independent School District activity bus waiting to be loaded with school supplies.

Couple ties the knot at Waffle Cone

By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press  Copperas Cove’s Waffle Cone in Cove Terrace Shopping Center has been the site of many celebrations that include ice cream, but this week the ice cream shop hosted a different celebration altogether – a wedding.

An ocean away, Copperas Cove native serves in U.S. Navy, lives in Europe, supports NATO mission

Special to Leader-Press ROTA, Spain – A 2006 Copperas Cove High School graduate and Copperas Cove, Texas, native is serving our country in the Navy, living on the coast of Spain, and participating in a critical NATO ballistic missile defense (BMD) mission while assigned to the guided-missile...

Council sets Oct. 2 as date for Business 190 median decision

By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press  In front of a crowd that left a handful of vacant seats on Tuesday evening, the Copperas Cove city council decided in a 5-1 vote to decide at its Oct. 2 meeting whether or not to go forward with the Business 190 median project.  As proposed, the 1.

Pride of Cove Band gears up for 2018-19 season

By BRITTANY FHOLER Cove Leader-Press The Pride of Cove Marching Band can be heard practicing by residents who live near the high school, as students practice their marching and movement as one group.  Freshman band members began training for the 2018-2019 school year on July 30.

CCISD Stuff the Bus gets jumpstart from Five Hills royalty

Special to Leader-Press When you multiply 14 titleholders each with five collection boxes partnering with local businesses, the end result is hundreds of school supplies collected in advance of  CCISD’s 4th Annual Stuff the Bus event scheduled Aug. 10-12.

Council to continue utility rates discussion tonight, discuss Business 190 median

By LYNETTE SOWELL  Cove Leader-Press  Proposed utility rate increases for Copperas Cove customers will be up for discussion again at today’s Copperas Cove city council workshop which starts at 5 p.m.

Copperas Cove ISD hosting 4th annual Stuff the Bus event

Special to Leader-Press  Fifty-eight percent of Copperas Cove ISD students qualify for the free and reduced meal program. Many of these students’ families may find it challenging to afford school supplies.

Artists, authors collaborate at show

By BRITTANY FHOLER  Cove Leader-Press  Writers joined artists to collaborate and create a visual artwork and a companion written piece as part of the first-ever artist and writer exhibition, Word Works: Artist and Author Challenge displayed at Frame & Things in Cove Terrace Shopping Center, with a...