Alamo Colleges' Northeast Lakeview College, or NLC, New Braunfels campus is getting ready to open soon.

What you need to know: Northeast Lakeview College officials will hold a grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony on November 18. Prospective students can enroll and register for classes now, which are still being held at the college's current New Braunfels location at 2193 FM 758.

Students who enroll for Spring classes will start at the new location in January 2027, Kathleen Labus, NLC's director of marketing & strategic communications, said in an email to Community Impact.

In case you missed it: Alamo Colleges purchased the 58,000-square-foot, pre-existing PNC Bank building at 2049 Sundance Parkway in February 2025 to expand its course offerings and better meet the region's growing educational and workforce demand. The building is being remodeled to feature a number of additional labs for healthcare and workforce training.

Labus said the project is moving along according to plan.

A new coffee shop has opened off FM 1102 in New Braunfels.

The details: Pressed Coffee Co., owned by Alyssa McConnico, opened Sept. 7 at 5441 FM 1102. The coffee shop offers specialty coffees, refreshers, matcha, pastries and more.

"I try to have a little bit of everything," McConnico said.

• 5441 FM 1102, New Braunfels

The city of San Marcos has contracted with the Capital Area Rural Transportation System, or CARTS, to provide public transit services since 2013. The city will pay more than $100,000 in fiscal year 2026-27 for the service due to rising operating costs.

The gist: The City Council approved a new interlocal agreement with CARTS to continue offering the transit service for residents and visitors in the upcoming fiscal year during a Sept. 1 meeting.

With the new fiscal year agreement, the per-hour cost for services will increase from $90 per service hour to $94.05 per service hour, or 4.5%.

Increases in maintenance costs of the aging bus fleet, recent unpredictability of changes in fuel prices and rises in personnel costs have contributed to the rate increase, according to agenda documents.

The breakdown: The total cost of the FY 2026-27 agreement is $2,486,747, with the city paying $792,101 from its general fund. The FY 2025-26 cost was $2,382,246, with the city paying $621,414 from its general fund, $170,687 less than the new agreement.

The Texas comptroller's office is requesting that lawmakers provide more than $2 billion for the state's education savings account program, which subsidizes private education and homeschooling for participating families.

How we got here: The legislature created the program in 2025, allocating $1 billion for the 2026-27 school year. Nearly 110,000 students have received state dollars from the program so far, and officials said funding should be doubled to ensure more students can enroll in the next two years.

Zooming in: According to the comptroller's legislative appropriations request for the 2028-29 biennium, it would cost:

• $916 million per year to continue funding the roughly 110,000 students currently enrolled

• $82 million annually would be needed to fund siblings of participating children who will soon qualify for the program

• $980 million per year to provide funding for more than 106,000 students on the program's waitlist

Something to note: The comptroller's $2 billion base budget request would not fully cover the waitlist and interest list, which would cost nearly $4 billion for the 2027-28 and 2028-29 school years.