CCISD opens applications for free/reduced meals

  By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   The Copperas Cove Independent School District application link will be open for parents looking to register their children for free/reduced meals for the upcoming 2022-2023 school year.

Coppperas Cove City Council holding special workshop, meetings for fiscal year 2022-2023 budget, tax rate

  By BRITTANY FHOLER Cove Leader-Press   The Copperas Cove City Council will be having a special workshop meeting on Tuesday, July 26, to discuss the ad valorem tax rate for fiscal year 2022-2023 followed by a special meeting The Special Workshop meeting on Tuesday, July 26, will start at 5 p.m.

Copperas Cove median completion pushed into September, dog park groundbreaking tentatively for Aug. 1

By LYNETTE SOWELL  Cove Leader-Press   The Business U.S 190 project continues, but the end date has been pushed into September of this year, according to Copperas Cove city manager Ryan Haverlah.

Copperas Cove ISD board approves substitute pay increase

By BRITTANY FHOLER Cove Leader-Press    The Copperas Cove Independent School District Board of Trustees approved an increase in substitute teacher pay during their regular meeting Tuesday evening.

National Military Child Education Coalition names House Creek Elementary in Copperas Cove top elementary school in the world for support of military-connected students

By WENDY SLEDD Special to the Leader-Press House Creek Elementary School has been named the top elementary school in the nation by the Military Child Education Coalition. First Lady Jill Biden made the announcement on Wednesday via video conference from the MCEC Global Summit in Washington, D.C.

Services set for Copperas Cove victim of Saturday’s I-14 crash

By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   Joshua Jay Smith, 22, of Copperas Cove, will be remembered with a visitation on Friday, July 22, from 6-8 p.m. at Crawford-Bowers Funeral Home in Copperas Cove. A funeral service will be held for him on Saturday, July 23, at 10 a.m.

Copperas Cove lone survivor of deadly I-14 collision remains hospitalized

By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   Autumn Lynch, 20, of Copperas Cove, is the sole survivor of a two-vehicle crash early Saturday morning on I-14 near the TJ Mills exit, that left two of her friends dead and a Fort Hood soldier dead as well.

Copperas Cove city council to meet Tuesday, hold public hearings

  By BRITTANY FHOLER Cove Leader-Press The Copperas Cove City Council will meet for their workshop at 5 p.m. Tuesday, with the regular meeting to follow at 6 p.m. or 10 minutes after the workshop meeting ends.

CCISD board of trustees to meet, look at substitute pay rates

By BRITTANY FHOLER Cove Leader-Press   The Copperas Cove Independent School District Board of Trustees will consider changes to the daily pay rate for substitute teachers and staff during their regular meeting Tuesday evening. The school board meets at 6:30 p.m.

Copperas Cove class of 2018 alum among three dead in early Saturday morning collision on I-14

  By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   A 22-year-old Copperas Cove man is among three who died in an early Saturday morning collision on I-14, according to a statement released on Sunday afternoon by the Texas Department of Public Safety.