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CCLP/LYNETTE SOWELL Heather Beaver and Arlie Jones with Copperas Cove Nursing & Rehabilitation Center present $500 donations to Patrick Richardson with the Copperas Cove Soup Kitchen, left, and Howard Nixon with the Copperas Cove Animal Shelter.

CTC names Burns as new board member

Special to Leader-Press  Central Texas College recently announced Joseph Burns, superintendent of the Copperas Cove Independent School District (CCISD), has been appointed to Place 3 of the Board of Trustees, replacing Elwood “Woody” Shemwell who retired.

Copperas Cove Police Department gives active shooter class

By DAVID J. HARDIN Cove Leader-Press The Copperas Cove Police Department presented a class on active shooter situations to approximately 20 employees of Cinergy Cinema on Monday morning.

First girls earn Cub Scout badges

By DAVID J. HARDIN Cove Leader-Press  Smiles were aplenty as three girls officially became members of the Copperas Cove Cub Scout Pack #257 during the pack’s weekly meeting on Tuesday evening at First Presbyterian Church.

Council appoints Haverlah interim city manager

By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press  After a Tuesday afternoon executive session that lasted just over one hour, the Copperas Cove city council emerged and unanimously voted to appoint Ryan Haverlah as the interim city manager.

Education foundation seeks nominees for Hall of Honor

By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press  The Copperas Cove Education Foundation is seeking to recognize graduates of Copperas Cove ISD with its inaugural Hall of Honor.  Each spring, the foundation hosts a fundraising gala which has proved to be one of the foundation’s main fundraisers.

Flu rages on in local area, nationwide

By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press  Local emergency rooms and urgent care centers have had longer wait times than normal recently due to the continued increased numbers of influenza and other associated viruses.

TxDOT finds Avenue D intersection too narrow

By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press  Although at the time of its completion in October 2017, the Avenue D downtown sidewalk and drainage project was said to have lanes wide enough for Texas Department of Transportation standards, that wasn’t the case, at least for one section of eastbound Avenue...

Copperas Cove Public Library holds calligraphy class

By DAVID J. HARDIN  Cove Leader-Press  Several local residents came out this past Wednesday night to the Copperas Cove Public Library to learn about medieval calligraphy and illumination.

Cove credit union robber gets 30-month sentence

By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press       A federal judge in El Paso sentenced 21-year-old Reiquon Gaines of Evanston, Ill., to 30 months in federal prison for two bank robberies, one of them occurring at Texas Partners Federal Credit Union in Copperas Cove on Nov. 16, 2016.