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Hope Healing Group acupuncture clinic will be celebrating its five-year anniversary in downtown Cibolo this spring.

What you need to know: The acupuncture clinic—owned by Eileen Fernandez—will celebrate its anniversary March 22. Hope Healing Group offers acupuncture and massages.

Hope Healing Group is also contracted to provide acupuncture services for veterans through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The contract is through the VA's community care network, which helps offer veterans quality care outside the department.

Fernandez said Hope Healing Group offers free acupuncture for law enforcement and veterans twice a month.

Notable quote: Fernandez said the community has been supportive since opening.

"I'm super grateful," Fernandez told Community Impact.

• 510 N. Main St., Cibolo

Howard Smith said he has been in the biking industry since he was in elementary school.

“My earliest memories were of my dad on two wheels,” Smith said. “It was bicycles, bicycles, bicycles.”

Smith was making plans to open a bike shop as early as junior high school—already having a notebook of all the required inventory it would take to get a brick-and-mortar up and running.

What’s special about it? While many bike shops are scattered around the San Antonio area, Smith said Action Bikes stands out because of the range of options available and the shop's customer service.

“Bikes are just so personable,” Smith said. “Things that work for me might not work for others.”

The shop offers cycles from just about every major brand out there, from Trek Bikes to Schwinn Bikes and everything in between, Smith said. Action Bikes also sells pedals, bike seats and road cycling shoes. There are also classic bikes for children for sale.

Action Bikes also offers bike repairs.

• 1705 Pat Booker Road, Ste. 205, Universal City

Cibolo City Council approved a resolution adopting its South Cibolo Wastewater Master Plan on Jan. 13.

The gist: The city contracted engineering firm Freese and Nichols Inc. in 2025 to prepare the plan, which recommends short- and long-term infrastructure projects needed to meet projected wastewater flows as the city continues to be built out. The master plan will serve as a roadmap to guide infrastructure construction between FM 78 and I-10, which is a new sewer service area for Cibolo, said Tyler May, a water and wastewater engineer with Freese and Nichols Inc., in an email to Community Impact.

The South Cibolo Wastewater Master Plan provides the city with a prioritized list of projects sized to meet build-out growth in the area. The projects extend infrastructure to areas that do not have wastewater service yet, the email states.

Capital Improvement Projects recommended by the plan will be incorporated into the city’s CIP Plan for future fiscal years, according to agenda documents.

As this nationwide gaming retailer continues to close stores across the United States, San Antonio is beginning to see some local impacts.

In case you missed it: GameStop has closed at least five stores across San Antonio, with three of those in North San Antonio.
The stores at 7117 Blanco Road, Ste. 1, and 11745 W. I-10, Ste. 120, closed as of Jan. 7, and a store located at 1742 N. Loop 1604 E., Ste. 119 closed as of Jan. 14.
Two other retail points on the city’s West side near Leon Valley also shut down in early January.

The context: GameStop offers a selection of new and used video games, plus a variety of new and used handheld gaming systems and consoles, according to its website.

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A set of permanent regulations for thousands of Texas businesses selling consumable hemp products took effect Jan. 21, after the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission adopted them one day earlier.

The overview: The latest hemp rules do not bring significant changes to the roughly 60,000 businesses under TABC oversight. They replace similar emergency rules adopted Sept. 23, prohibiting Texas alcohol retailers from selling hemp-derived THC products to customers under 21 years old.

“The key you heard today… is the effect of THC on younger folks' development—much like alcohol, the same reasons we regulate alcohol for those 21 years old [and up],” TABC chair Robert Eckels said.

Zooming in: The TABC has limited jurisdiction over the consumable hemp industry and can only require age limits and ID checks, agency leaders said. State health officials are considering more comprehensive regulations on the industry.

“The Department of State Health Services’ rules are going to be much more robust,” TABC general counsel James Person said Jan. 20. “They actually cover the products themselves: the [THC] content, the testing and whatnot."