Five Hills royalty collect for military working dogs

Special to the Leader-Press Copperas Cove Five Hills Junior Ambassador Kaydence Roberts is literally going to the dogs and she is taking her sister royalty with her.

Fire Department hosts Car Seat Safety event

PAMELA GRANT Cove Leader-Press According to the CDC, motor vehicle injuries are a leading cause of death in children in the United States, and many of those could have been prevented through proper use of a child safety seat.

Texas Discount Automotive holds car show for a cause

By PAMELA GRANT Cove Leader-Press $12,767.89.  That’s the total amount of unpaid breakfast and lunch bills incurred by Copperas Cove Independent School District students for the current 2017-2018 school year.

Art Guild holds third annual festival

By NICOLE METTS Cove Leader-Press On Friday evening and all day Saturday, the Five Hills Art Guild along with a lineup of volunteers, sponsors, artists and performers brought the arts to Copperas Cove for the third year in a row. An estimated 2,500 people attended during the two days.

Young entrepreneurs hone lemonade-making skills

By BRITTANY FHOLER Cove Leader-Press  The Lemonade Day Fort Hood Area and Copperas Cove Chick-fil-A partnered together to show children and their parents how to make lemonade at the Little Lemon Squeezers event held Saturday morning in the outside dining area of Chick-fil-A.

Sunday a.m. fire on Sunset Lane destroys apartment complex

By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   A six-unit apartment building on Sunset Lane has been deemed a total loss after an early Sunday morning fire. Deputy Fire Chief Gary Young with the Copperas Cove Fire Department said they were notified of the fire shortly after 2 a.m.

Five Hills royalty nominated for Central Texas Incredible Kid honors

Special to Leader-Press Six Copperas Cove Five Hills titleholders have been nominated for the 2018 Central Texas Incredible Kid Award.

Children battling cancer get encouragement from Cove beauty queen

By WENDY SLEDD Special to Leader-Press The box was too heavy for her to get out of the car, but the medals that filled it were not too many for the little beauty queen to count.  There were 514 to be exact.

Pageant titleholders have one last round with Domino’s

By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press  It is now less than two weeks before the current Five Hills Scholarship Pageant royalty surrender their titles to the 2018 winners, and Saturday morning found the royalty paying a visit to one of the pageant’s sponsors, Domino’s Pizza, at its Fort Hood location.

Repairs to begin on State Highway 9

By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press  The Texas Department of Transportation announced on Tuesday that repairs and maintenance of a section of State Highway 9 will begin on Monday, March 19.  The location is the overpass and connector just north of the Business 190 and U.S.