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A new emergency room opening at St. Luke’s Baptist Hospital, located at 7930 Floyd Curl Drive in San Antonio, is looking to reduce patient wait times in San Antonio’s South Texas Medical Center.

Construction on the project, which is anticipated to open June 15, began in 2025 and adds an 11,000-square-foot ER space to the hospital, according to a hospital news release.

The existing emergency department space doubled with the renovations and includes the addition of:

• Two EMS bays
• Three emergency department beds
• One “Right Care, Right Place” room
• Eight medical-surgical patient beds

The New Braunfels Planning Commission has pushed forward a rezoning request for a single-family residential development district at the corner of Kuehler Avenue and Coco Lane.

Some details: The 5.14-acre property is currently zoned for single-family residential and two-family districts, which could allow a maximum of 76 dwelling units. Other uses allowed on the property include a community home, family home, adult and child care, public or private school or water pump station, according to the meeting presentation. The planning commission voted 5-2 to recommend the property be rezoned to a planned development district on June 2 with no short-term rentals. 

Commissioner Angela Allen and Vice Chair Chase Taylor dissented.

The district, dubbed Kuehler Court Planned Development District, or KCPD, is a proposed 42-home residential development consisting of for-sale cottage homes and single-family attached homes. The concept plan indicates that there would be common areas and between 80-100 parking spaces.

Property owner Graham Weston said the project is designed to be different property types to accommodate different stages of life.

Mattenga's Pizzeria is planning to open another location in New Braunfels this summer.

The details: Mattenga's Pizzeria is planning to open its 8th overall location at 675 N. Business I-35, Ste. 108 in June, Owner Matt Stanfield told Community Impact. Stanfield owns the pizzeria with his wife, Enga.

Mattenga's Pizzeria serves pizza with various toppings, chicken wings, calzones, cheesy garlic bread, pizza rolls and more.

Stanfield said they love being active in the community, and they look forward to supporting more schools and churches in the area.

• 675 N. Business I-35, Ste. 108, New Braunfels

State and federal officials are escalating their response to a New World screwworm infestation in South Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott announced June 5.

What you need to know: The flesh-eating parasite was found this week in a 3-week-old calf in Zavala County. The calf’s herd has been inspected, officials said, and no other cases have been reported.

However, the governor warned that screwworm infestations can “spread like wildfire” and said additional animals would likely be affected.

“This is likely to spread over the course of the summer,” Abbott told reporters during a June 5 news conference at the State Operations Center in Austin. “[The] winter months may kill off the flies or reduce their number, but we cannot make it through a second summer.”

The screwworm feeds on living, warm-blooded animals, threatening Texas’ $15.5 billion cattle industry and $9.6 billion white-tailed deer hunting industry.