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CCLP/LYNETTE SOWELL - Participants in Friday night’s painting fundraiser, “Painting With Brittany”, show off their work at the end of the night. The event was held by the Five Hills 4-H Club at the Copperas Cove Public Library to help with the club’s community service projects.

CCLP/LYNETTE SOWELL - Participants in Friday night’s painting fundraiser, “Painting With Brittany”, show off their work at the end of the night. The event was held by the Five Hills 4-H Club at the Copperas Cove Public Library to help with the club’s community service projects.

Five Hills 4-H holds painting fundraiser

News Staff
Tue, 03/07/2017 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press Friends and family of the Five Hills 4-H Club got in touch with their creative side on Friday evening, as the club held its first painting night fundraiser at the Copperas Cove Public Library’s meeting room.

CCISD to hold annual State of District lunch

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Fri, 03/03/2017 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press The Copperas Cove Independent School District is holding its annual State of the District luncheon on Wednesday, March 8 at 11:30 am., at the Copperas Cove Civic Center, located at 1206. W. Ave. B. The event is free and open to the public.
CCLP/BRITTANY FHOLER - Dr. Leonard Moore, a history professor at the University of Texas- Austin, was the keynote speaker at the Center for African-American Studies and Research Lecture Series event held last Thursday evening at the CTC Anderson Center.

CCLP/BRITTANY FHOLER - Dr. Leonard Moore, a history professor at the University of Texas- Austin, was the keynote speaker at the Center for African-American Studies and Research Lecture Series event held last Thursday evening at the CTC Anderson Center.

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY

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Fri, 03/03/2017 - 05:00
By BRITTANY FHOLER Cove Leader-Press Central Texas College hosted an event last Thursday evening in commemoration of Black History month with the theme: “The African-American Experience: Building a Bridge from Our Past to Our Future”.
CCLP/DAVID J. HARDIN - University of Mary Hardin Baylor students taught Lemonade Day University to local kids on Tuesday. Lemonade Day 2017 is set for May 6.

CCLP/DAVID J. HARDIN - University of Mary Hardin Baylor students taught Lemonade Day University to local kids on Tuesday. Lemonade Day 2017 is set for May 6.

Lemonade Day University taught in Copperas Cove

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Fri, 03/03/2017 - 05:00
By DAVID J. HARDIN Cove Leader-Press Lemonade Day 2017 is fast approaching, and for the kids of Copperas Cove another opportunity to become entrepreneurs. On Tuesday evening, about 25 kids attended Lemonade Day University at the community room of the Copperas Cove Police Department.
CCLP/DAVID J. HARDIN - Copperas Cove Soup Kitchen director Patrick Richardson and Kelly Jenkins of Central Texas Youth Services hold up the new Safe Place sign, which designates the soup kitchen as a place where at-risk youths can go if they are in trouble and need.

CCLP/DAVID J. HARDIN - Copperas Cove Soup Kitchen director Patrick Richardson and Kelly Jenkins of Central Texas Youth Services hold up the new Safe Place sign, which designates the soup kitchen as a place where at-risk youths can go if they are in trouble and need.

SAFE PLACE

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Tue, 02/28/2017 - 05:00
By DAVID J. HARDIN Cove Leader-Press The Copperas Cove Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting on Thursday the Copperas Cove Soup Kitchen.
CCLP/BRITTANY FHOLER - Stoney Brook resident Penny Weaver and culinary director Warrell Spence were crowned Queen and King of the Sock Hop at Stoney Brook Assisted Living’s sock hop themed 6th anniversary party on Friday.

CCLP/BRITTANY FHOLER - Stoney Brook resident Penny Weaver and culinary director Warrell Spence were crowned Queen and King of the Sock Hop at Stoney Brook Assisted Living’s sock hop themed 6th anniversary party on Friday.

Stoney Brook marks six years with sock hop

News Staff
Tue, 02/28/2017 - 05:00
By BRITTANY FHOLER Cove Leader-Press Stoney Brook Assisted Living celebrated its 6th anniversary in Copperas Cove with a 50s Sock Hop themed party open to the public Friday evening.

Progress 2017: New restaurants locating in Cove

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Tue, 02/28/2017 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press With the closure of the Casa Ole’ Restaurant on the corner of Business 190 and Constitution Drive on June 30, 2013, the prime location at 2730 E. Bus. 190 has remained empty for nearly four years. Raising Cane’s, the Baton Rouge, La.
CCLP/LYNETTE SOWELL - A crew for TxDOT works on the F.M. 116 widening project which has been under way since July 2016. Next week the project will be relocating 18-inch water transmission line and the city will be enforcing its stage 4 water conservation plan from Feb. 27 through March 2.

CCLP/LYNETTE SOWELL - A crew for TxDOT works on the F.M. 116 widening project which has been under way since July 2016. Next week the project will be relocating 18-inch water transmission line and the city will be enforcing its stage 4 water conservation plan from Feb. 27 through March 2.

City implementing mandatory water restrictions

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Fri, 02/24/2017 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press Starting Monday, Feb. 27, Copperas Cove residents will need to watch their water usage due to the city’s 18-inch water transmission line being taken out of service through Thursday, March 2.
CCLP/LYNETTE SOWELL - Five Hills Art Guild mural project director Sheri Wilson works at blocking areas of the guild’s mural at the future Sutherlands Home Base store, set to open in March.

CCLP/LYNETTE SOWELL - Five Hills Art Guild mural project director Sheri Wilson works at blocking areas of the guild’s mural at the future Sutherlands Home Base store, set to open in March.

PAINT ME A COPPERAS COVE

News Staff
Fri, 02/24/2017 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press With the grand opening of the Sutherlands Home Base lumber store at the site of the former H-E-B building weeks away, the Five Hills Art Guild has its newest mural project now under way.
CCLP/BRITTANY FHOLER - The Copperas Cove High School Project Graduation Planning Committee met Tuesday evening for the first time under the new leadership of Charles Lyons.

CCLP/BRITTANY FHOLER - The Copperas Cove High School Project Graduation Planning Committee met Tuesday evening for the first time under the new leadership of Charles Lyons.

Project Graduation 2017 regroups, seeks supporters

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Fri, 02/24/2017 - 05:00
By BRITTANY FHOLER Cove Leader-Press The Project Graduation 2017 committee has had a slow start in raising money funds this school year, but held its first meeting under new leadership Tuesday evening at the CCHS cafeteria.