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Progress Cove vows to continue work on liquor petition

News Staff

Fri, 09/19/2014 - 11:57

By DAVID MORRIS Members of the Progress Cove group who circulated a Local Option Election Petition to legalize the sale of alcoholic beverages to include mixed drinks learned their official fate Tuesday evening, falling more than 500 verified signatures short of having a valid petition.

Randy Stonerock

Stonerock first to graduate from class of 2015

News Staff

Fri, 09/19/2014 - 11:56

By WENDY SLEDD While some students are still changing classes, 17 year-old Randy Stonerock has changed not only schools, but his life. Only three weeks into the new school year, Randy has gotten his final high school transcript and effectively graduated from high school.

Bonnie Herrings shows the proposed site of two plots of land she hopes to have rezoned from Residential 1 to Commercial so Century 21 Premier Realtors can build a two-story office building on.

Not so Easy St

News Staff

Fri, 09/19/2014 - 11:52

By DAVID MORRIS Tuesday’s Copperas Cove City Council meeting was lively as Fire Station #2’s property is rezoned and another denied, appointments’ names drawn from a hat and Three Lemonheads visit council.

Families look at vehicles on display from the First Cavalry’s 115th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team during the annual Spurfest celebration in Gatesville.

Spurfest

News Staff

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 05:00

By LYNETTE SOWELL Despite cloudy skies and cooler temperatures, the crowds didn’t stay away from Spurfest, a one-day festival hosted by the Gatesville Chamber of Commerce. The day kicked off early with a 5K zombie obstacle course at 7 a.m.

FD informs of disaster preparedness

News Staff

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 05:00

By DAVID MORRIS Deputy Fire Chief Gary Young’s first screening of Surviving Disaster welcomed citizens young and old Saturday morning to the Copperas Cove Public Library. The Surviving Disaster program shared how to properly make a plan for wildfires, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes and disasters.

City sees increase in sales tax from 2013

News Staff

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 05:00

By LYNETTE SOWELL The sales tax numbers for August 2014 are in, and the city of Copperas Cove’s tax rebate for the month is $318,505.67, up from $300,192.24 from August 2013, a 6.1 percent increase from last year, according to the report released from the office of state comptroller Susan Combs.

Sgt. Carlos Nesmith reads to students from House Creek Elementary as he helps them honor the memory of September 11, 2001.

Remembering 9/11

News Staff

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 05:00

By By DAVID MORRIS Pausing from their daily routine, soldiers from the HHC 89th Mili-tary Police Brigade took an opportunity Thursday to read to the children of their adopted school.

CCFD treated to lunch by H-E-B

News Staff

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 05:00

By LYNETTE SOWELL Managers and partners of Copperas Cove’s H-E-B Plus! joined together to honor the first responders of the Copperas Cove Fire Department yesterday with lunch at the Central Fire Station.

Obama’s 9/11 message varies across the years

News Staff

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 05:00

By NANCY BENAC Six times, President Barack Obama has come before the American people to reckon with the legacy of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the anniversary of that awful day.

Board of Trustees to buy buses

News Staff

Tue, 09/09/2014 - 09:17

By LYNETTE SOWELL The Copperas Cove Independent School District board of trustees is having its monthly meeting this evening, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the administration building board room, located at 703 West Ave.