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File Photos - Connor Hedger walks on the field last season with the Bulldawgs for a special presentation during a home game.

File Photos - Connor Hedger walks on the field last season with the Bulldawgs for a special presentation during a home game.

MOMENT OF SILENCE

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Fri, 07/15/2016 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   Less than a week before his sixth birthday, young Connor Hedge, a House Creek Elementary School student, finished his battle with stage IV neuroblastoma on Sunday morning.

Copperas Cove Council holds budget workshop

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Fri, 07/15/2016 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   The Copperas Cove city council worked its way through the proposed fiscal year 2017 budget on Tuesday evening, with city budget director Ryan Haverlah giving a presentation that lasted around two hours.

Locals gather for prayer at Copperas Cove Police Department

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Tue, 07/12/2016 - 13:47
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   In the wake of last week's shooting deaths of five Dallas police officers with 12 more officers wounded, about 20 residents from several local churches gathered for prayer at the Copperas Cove Police Department early Monday morning.

Hank's hosting annual 3-day customer appreciation event

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Tue, 07/12/2016 - 13:01
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   Hank's Tire Pros at 918 S. Main St. is pulling out the stops for its 9th annual customer appreciation days, starting Thursday and going through Saturday. Things kick off Thursday at 7:30 a.m., with hours on Thursday and Friday from 7:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m.

H-E-B holding tear-pad campaign for the National Mounted Warrior Museum

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Tue, 07/12/2016 - 12:55
Special to Leader-Press   The National Mounted Warfare Foundation (NMWF) is pleased to announce that H-E-B has selected the NMWF as the beneficiary of its in-store coupon promotion in the eight stores surrounding the Central Texas region to include Copperas Cove, Killeen, Harker Heights, Lampasas,...

Chamber announces hiring of new president

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Tue, 07/12/2016 - 12:44
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   At Thursday night's Copperas Cove city council meeting, Joe Newman, the interim president of the Copperas Cove Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau, announced that the board has hired Sean Corrigan to be the organization's new president/CEO.
CCLP/LYNETTE SOWELL - Mitch Lofton speaks to the petition team and supporters at The Network’s celebration at Redneck Tacos on Saturday afternoon. The Copperas Cove city council voted unanimously to accept the petition with 1,748 signatures at Thursday night’s meeting.

CCLP/LYNETTE SOWELL - Mitch Lofton speaks to the petition team and supporters at The Network’s celebration at Redneck Tacos on Saturday afternoon. The Copperas Cove city council voted unanimously to accept the petition with 1,748 signatures at Thursday night’s meeting.

Liquor petition team celebrates, prepares for upcoming ballot

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Tue, 07/12/2016 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   With the Copperas Cove city council unanimously voting on Thursday night to accept the 1,748 verified signatures on a petition along with approving a resolution to place the liquor option on the Nov.
Julie Landrum demonstrates how to create marble designs on paper using shaving cream and food coloring at the Sip and strut event held in Downtown Lampasas Thursday evening.

Julie Landrum demonstrates how to create marble designs on paper using shaving cream and food coloring at the Sip and strut event held in Downtown Lampasas Thursday evening.

SIP AND STRUT

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Tue, 07/12/2016 - 05:00
By BRITTANY FHOLER Cove Leader-Press   Artists demonstrated their techniques at Sip and Strut on Thursday evening at the Perception Creative Art School in downtown Lampasas.
CCLP/PAMELA GRANT - Taylor Griswold, owner of Epic Entertainment, and Kazoo fired toilet paper into the audience as part of their show at the library’s Summer Reading Program.

CCLP/PAMELA GRANT - Taylor Griswold, owner of Epic Entertainment, and Kazoo fired toilet paper into the audience as part of their show at the library’s Summer Reading Program.

Library provides ‘Epic’ entertainment

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Tue, 07/12/2016 - 05:00
By PAMELA GRANT Cove Leader-Press   Kids of all ages had an “epic” time at the library last Wednesday courtesy of Epic Entertainment.   Epic Entertainment’s show on Thursday was the most recent show held as part of the Copperas Cove Public Library’s Summer Reading Program.
Courtesy Photo - LTCDR Eric Oliphant with the United States Coast Guard was named Exceptional Pilot of the Year for his role in rescuing four crew members from the sailing vessel Trio in February 2016.

Courtesy Photo - LTCDR Eric Oliphant with the United States Coast Guard was named Exceptional Pilot of the Year for his role in rescuing four crew members from the sailing vessel Trio in February 2016.

Cove alum named Coast Guard’s Exceptional Pilot of the Year

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Fri, 07/08/2016 - 05:00
By CHUCK TAYLOR Cove Leader-Press   Eric Oliphant, a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Coast Guard and member of the Copperas Cove High School class of 1991, has been named the United States Coast Guard’s Exceptional Pilot of the Year.