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Local veteran finds new ways to serve in civilian life
In 2005, Matt Foster was deployed to Iraq. Today, he’s helping veterans build community on greener pastures. Foster, who lives in Allen, grew up in New Braunfels and enlisted in the military after high school. He served in the Army from 2003 to 2007, becoming an E-4 specialist. Foster was influenced by a military lineage going back generations. His dad was in the Navy and his grandfather was in the Army and his uncle was in the Marine Corps. Foster said after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, he knew he would join the military too. “9/11 was one of those days that I think, certainly for everybody in my generation, I could tell you exactly where I was, down to the spot in the middle of the road where I heard it,” Foster said. “It transformatively changed my life and gave me a direction that I didn't know that I needed. When I was graduating from high school, I had offers to go to college. I could have done that, and it just wasn't what I felt I needed at the time, and so I really had this strong desire to go serve.” In 2005, he married his
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New public safety and fire training facility will serve fast-growing Cibolo South area
CIBOLO, Texas – City officials have said Cibolo is growing fast, with population growth so far concentrated North of FM 78. But lately, expansion is happening in the opposite direction, in the area neighbors call Cibolo South. “Half of our land within the City of Cibolo is south of...
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Buda Finally Gets Its First Bookstore as Two Doors Down Opens on Main Street
Buda has its first official bookstore. Two Doors Down Bookshop opened Oct. 24 at 200 S. Main St. in downtown Buda, giving the city a dedicated spot for new reads, bookish gifts and a gathering place that owner Sarah Ray once ran out of her own home. The shop's debut...