SAF Wine Bar & Nosh reopened in Lakeway in May following a remodel aimed at creating a more community-focused atmosphere, offering wine, small bites, live music and seasonal events.

The background: In December 2025, owner Jon Graham decided to remodel the wine bar with an emphasis on creating a space for the community. In May, SAF Wine Bar & Nosh officially reopened.

“The whole concept here was to create a completely unpretentious wine bar,” Graham said. “People are here to have fun and enjoy themselves… . When a new person walks in, people welcome them… . It’s almost a ‘Cheers’-like atmosphere.”

On the menu: SAF Wine Bar & Nosh offers a wide variety of wines including 35 by the glass and 90 wines by the bottle.

The restaurant focuses on low-production, boutique wines from wineries across the world including France, South Africa, Spain, Italy, South America, Portugal and the United States.

To eat, the wine bar has “nosh boards,” similar to meat and cheese plates, and other small bites including flatbreads, steak filets and truffle fries.

Restore Hyper Wellness locations in Westlake and Bee Cave are celebrating 5- and 10-year anniversaries in October.

The overview: Restore Hyper Wellness offers personalized, science-backed therapies to improve health, accelerate recovery and decrease signs of aging, according to its website.

Therapies include cryotherapy, red light therapy, infrared sauna, IV drip therapy, intramuscular shots, facials and medical services such as biomarker assessments.

The details: Restore Hyper Wellness offers monthly membership options ranging from eight services per month to 31 services each month. Therapies can also be purchased individually.

The Bee Cave and Westlake locations will be celebrating anniversaries Oct. 16-18, offering Legacy Membership pricing, matching the rates available when they first opened and 20% off packs of services.

• Westlake: 3276 Bee Cave Road, Ste. 118, West Lake Hills

• Bee Cave: 4005 Market St., Unit 130, Bee Cave

A Round Rock hospital is the first in the greater Austin area to offer a new, minimally invasive treatment for artery blockages.

The overview: St. David's Round Rock Medical Center announced Sept. 1 that it began offering the percutaneous transmural arterial bypass procedure, which creates an alternate pathway for blood to flow around a blocked artery, according to a news release.

The PTAB procedure was first performed by vascular surgeons Drs. Nicolas Zea and Kofi Quaye at St. David's Round Rock.

The treatment is generally recommended for patients with peripheral artery disease, a condition that limits blood flow to the legs, the release states.

The Texas Education Agency is asking state lawmakers to spend $97.3 billion on K-12 education initiatives and staffing in the next two years, up from about $91 billion in the current state budget.

The details: During a Sept. 29 hearing on the agency's legislative appropriations request, Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath noted that the TEA is "largely a pass-through vehicle to fund schools around the state of Texas." This means that while funding would be allocated to the agency under Article III of the state budget, the majority of that money would be sent to school districts, outside of funds used to pay TEA staff and cover operations for associated entities, such as the State Board of Education.

The TEA is asking for about $49.6 billion for fiscal year 2027-28 and $47.7 billion for fiscal year 2028-29, totaling $97.3 billion for the 2028-29 biennium. Morath said those amounts would "preserve 100% of all funding for public schools" through the Foundation School Program, which is the state's main funding source for K-12 schools, and other initiatives.