B. Sweet Lash Wax & Med-Spa, a beauty-oriented business locally owned by Brooke Sweet, opened a third location in Round Rock in December.

What they offer: Sweet's business offers a variety of services including eyelash extensions and lifts, skincare, waxing, advanced microblading, permanent makeup, ear piercing, laser hair removal, as well as medspa treatments.

Remember this: Sweet opened her first location in Pflugerville, expanding to Hutto in 2023.

• 1307 Chisholm Trail Road, Ste. 150, Round Rock

Construction on Gattis School Road Segment 3 is expected to wrap up earlier than expected, according to a city of Round Rock news release.

The overview: The project, construction for which began in August 2024, includes widening the road from four lanes to six with new medians, pedestrian improvements, bicycle improvements, and right and left turns at A.W. Grimes Boulevard and Double Creek Drive.

Construction was originally expected to be completed in the fall of 2026. Now, the city plans to complete the final paving on the roughly $26-million road project in February.

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.