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CCLP/LYNETTE SOWELL - Brian Hawkins, executive director of Cove House holds up a framed print during the live auction as he helps raise money for the homeless shelter and free clinic Monday evening

CCLP/LYNETTE SOWELL - Brian Hawkins, executive director of Cove House holds up a framed print during the live auction as he helps raise money for the homeless shelter and free clinic Monday evening

DINNER FOR A CAUSE

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Fri, 11/18/2016 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   Monday night at the Cove House Emergency Homeless Shelter annual fundraising banquet was a night for talking about numbers, but it was also a night for putting some faces and stories behind those numbers.   36-year-old Charisma Sanchez said she’d...
CCLP/FILE ART - Volunteers pause at a grave during last years wreath laying ceremony at the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery. This year Marty Smith is looking for 300 volunteers to help lay 2,300 wreaths.

CCLP/FILE ART - Volunteers pause at a grave during last years wreath laying ceremony at the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery. This year Marty Smith is looking for 300 volunteers to help lay 2,300 wreaths.

Volunteers sought to help with wreath preparation, placement

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Fri, 11/18/2016 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   The Copperas Cove contingent of Friends of the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery is seeking volunteers to help with what has become an annual tradition in the Fort Hood area—the annual wreath laying at the cemetery, which will take place on...

Noon Exchange Club to host Feast of Sharing

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Tue, 11/15/2016 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   The Noon Exchange Club is gearing up for the 19th annual Feast of Sharing to be held Thursday evening at the Copperas Cove Civic Center from 6-8 p.m.   The club has a full staff of volunteers prepared to serve the free Thanksgiving meal for the...
CCLP/BRITTANY FHOLER - Kids lined up to throw water balloons at Michael Anderson, Campus Director of Cove Charter Academy, at the annual Fall Extravaganza held Friday afternoon.

CCLP/BRITTANY FHOLER - Kids lined up to throw water balloons at Michael Anderson, Campus Director of Cove Charter Academy, at the annual Fall Extravaganza held Friday afternoon.

EXTRAVAGANZA

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Tue, 11/15/2016 - 05:00
By BRITTANY FHOLER Cove Leader-Press   A newly revamped Cove Charter Academy held a Fall Extravaganza on Friday afternoon on campus, allowing parents and members of the community to see what the students have been working on.
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Kent faced scrutiny, corrective action as Chief

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Tue, 11/15/2016 - 05:00
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Liquor sales approved by Copperas Cove voters

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Fri, 11/11/2016 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   Copperas Cove voters went to the polls and the majority made their voices heard with a resounding “yes” to legalizing the sale of liquor and mixed beverages within the city limits of Copperas Cove.
CCLP/LYNETTE SOWELL - Copperas Cove City Council Place 5 incumbent Kirby Lack holds up his phone as he waits for the results to come in Tuesday evening at his home in Copperas Cove. Lack pulled in 58.63 percent of the vote to Marc Payne’s 41.37 percent.

CCLP/LYNETTE SOWELL - Copperas Cove City Council Place 5 incumbent Kirby Lack holds up his phone as he waits for the results to come in Tuesday evening at his home in Copperas Cove. Lack pulled in 58.63 percent of the vote to Marc Payne’s 41.37 percent.

ELECTION 2016

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Fri, 11/11/2016 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   Only one of three races for Copperas Cove city council was decided on Tuesday.   Place 5 incumbent Kirby Lack received 3,193 votes, or 58.63 percent over challenger E. Marc Payne, who received 2,253 votes, or 41.37 percent.   “I’m delighted.

Polls open until 7 p.m. tonight after record-breaking early voting

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Tue, 11/08/2016 - 05:00
.By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   Early voting closed Friday, with a total of 13,509 voters in Coryell County having cast their ballots as of 5 p.m. Friday. Of those more than 13,000 voters, 7,363 went to the polls in Copperas Cove, 4,819 in Gatesville, and 1,327 voters mailed in their ballots.
CCLP/BRITTANY FHOLER - A Sausage Fest-goer points out her sausage selection at the Trinity Lutheran Church’s Annual German Sausage Fest held Saturday at the Copperas Cove Civic Center.

CCLP/BRITTANY FHOLER - A Sausage Fest-goer points out her sausage selection at the Trinity Lutheran Church’s Annual German Sausage Fest held Saturday at the Copperas Cove Civic Center.

GERMAN SAUSAGE FEST

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Tue, 11/08/2016 - 05:00
By BRITTANY FHOLER Cove Leader-Press   Hundreds of people braved the rain on Saturday for the Annual German Sausage Fest hosted by the Trinity Lutheran Church at the Copperas Cove Civic Center.