Ark Roofer was founded with one goal: to raise the standard of trust in a roofing industry that is often driven by pressure rather than transparency. 

The backstory: Founder Luke Secora, a fourth-generation contractor, established the company in 2018.

Secora grew up working for his dad, painting houses, and doing kitchen and bath remodels. Secora worked in a sales role at a different company for about a year to learn the roofing industry.

“There’s some reputation with the roofers. ... It’s hard to find integrity in the roofing space, just a lot of people who are real salesy, real pushy, don’t really care about your best interest,” Secora said.

Seeing an opportunity to do things differently, he decided to build a company grounded in transparency and customer trust. This led him to start his own company out of his home office.

How it’s going: Now, Ark Roofer has six departments and a management team that runs each department.

The company offers roofing, siding, painting and gutter solutions as well as no-cost storm damage assessments.

Clay Underwood opened a Sandler sales training center in Georgetown in early 2026.

Learn more: As a home-based business, Sandler by AnchorPoint Sales LLC aims to provide world-class sales coaching, where clients are taught to sell on value, reach more customers and close more deals, Underwood said.

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On May 26, Texas Republican voters will choose their nominee for the U.S. Senate in a runoff election between incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and state Attorney General Ken Paxton.

The big picture: The Republican race for U.S. Senate is one of several statewide contests that advanced to May runoffs after no candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the March 3 primary election.

Cornyn and Paxton were the two highest-performing candidates in the eight-way primary race, with Cornyn securing 42% of the vote to Paxton's 41%.

At the polls: Early voting in Texas' runoff elections runs from May 18-22, and runoff election day is May 26.

Looking ahead: The winner of the May 26 overtime round will face the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate—state Rep. James Talarico of Austin—in the November midterm election. Third-party and independent candidates may also appear on the November ballot, and the winner of that election will be sworn in to the U.S. Senate in January 2027.