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Keller Fast-Tracks New Bates Street Restrooms, Moves Up Timeline by a Year
Keller City Council has given city staff the green light to move forward with plans for new public restrooms along Bates Street, shifting a project originally slated for fiscal year 2027-28 up to the current fiscal year. The tentative site sits next to Bates Street Park, and the city is eyeing a total project budget of $500,000 to $600,000.
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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