A new senior care service has just launched across the Boerne area, Hill Country and beyond.

Learn more: Home Helpers Home Care of Boerne launched its services in November, owned and operated by Rachel Fisher.

The local franchise is a part of a nationwide network of in-home care teams.

“Our team provides personalized in-home support, including personal care, companionship, mobility, bathing, grooming, and transfer assistance, transportation and post-surgery recovery care,” Fisher said in an email to Community Impact.

Fisher said the new branch serves not only the Boerne area, but also Fair Oaks Ranch, Canyon Lake, Spring Branch, Bulverde, Blanco, Johnson City and other cities and communities throughout the Hill Country.

There are also branches in North San Antonio, New Braunfels and Western San Antonio, according to the company’s website.

One more thing: Home Helpers Home Care primarily specializes in personalized in-home care, treatment and health management for seniors and families, according to their website.

• Serving Boerne, surrounding areas

Check out this roundup of Boerne business updates from December, from a new cafe coming soon to a new dental practice.

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Texas has grown rapidly in recent years, and data indicates that development is not slowing down. The Lone Star State gained about 168,000 jobs from September 2024-September 2025, leading the nation in job growth, according to the Texas Workforce Commission.

The overview: Texas is attractive to businesses looking to relocate or expand their operations due to its tax incentives and grants, lack of a personal income tax and roughly 200 higher education institutions, business leaders said during a Dec. 10 summit held in College Station by industry network YTexas.

As businesses of all sizes continue to move to Texas, local governments and associations also need to “support the ones that are already here,” said Dean Browell, the chief behavioral officer for Feedback, a digital ethnographic research firm.

Zooming in: In an October study, Feedback found that long-term Texas residents want to live in growing communities with strong education systems and plentiful job opportunities. That growth, however, can lead to rising property taxes and living expenses before residents begin feeling the benefits, Browell said.

The Texas power grid is expected to hold up this winter, officials with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said Dec. 9. This is due in part to “tremendous supply growth on the ERCOT grid,” ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas said, amid an influx of data centers coming to the state.

The overview: Since last winter, over 11,000 megawatts of generating capacity have been added to the ERCOT grid, Vegas said. That growth, which largely comes from battery storage and solar facilities, could be used to power about 2.8 million homes during periods of peak electric demand.

Zooming in: Under most weather conditions, there is a less than 2% chance of a grid emergency through February, ERCOT found.

However, Texas could be in trouble in the unlikely event that a repeat of Winter Storm Uri hits large parts of the state this winter, although ERCOT noted that the probability of such a severe storm happening again was "well under one percent." The February 2021 freeze devastated an unprepared power grid, resulting in nearly 250 deaths.