With recent local developments with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic, the city of Killeen has shifted its focus.
âThe City of Killeen has turned its efforts to vaccinations now that testing is more widely available at places like Walgreens and CVS as well as hospitals and clinics,â city Spokesperson Hilary Shine said by email on Monday after the Herald asked if the city was still facilitating free coronavirus testing as it had in recent months.
The city was doing free drive-thru testing every Monday and Tuesday at the Killeen Special Events Center as recently as Feb. 8 and 9, but that is no longer the case.
Tennessee man drives 14 hours to donate food, supplies to those in need in Texas
By: KXXV Staff
and last updated 2021-02-22 23:34:05-05
KILLEEN, TX â To help struggling Texans, a 14-hour drive from Murfreesboro, Tennessee to Killeen seemed like nothing to Chris Wieland, a TikToker.
âI started seeing a lot of the people down here in the Killeen area that were going without and what they were going through,â he said. âSo I reached out to my followers on Tiktok.â
All 98,000 of them.
Collectively, his audience raised over $7,000 in just 2 days.
At first, Wieland said he was expecting a few hundred dollars, in which he would match. Come to find out, the Tennessee man raised over $4,000 in the first six hours.
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With water service still uncertain for many Killeen residents, volunteers both local and from out of state were on hand Sunday to help those who needed water and other items.