Nando Gonzalez, a sales manager at River City Produce, said things had been business as usual, but there was some hesitation over the weekend about what would happen.

Fall is officially here, and now is a great time to start gardening and building soil in your garden or refreshing container gardens.

H-E-B is providing an economic boost with the expansion of its support center on the Northeast Side, and now the San Antonio-based grocery company is looking to fill hundreds of jobs.

POTEET, Texas – The area farmers who grew crops were unable to completely protect them against the record cold and are finding their prized harvest ruined after last week’s winter storm. “They got really cold, to the point where they just got brittle and they’re falling apart right now,” said Donovan Garcia Jr., who grows some of Poteet’s prized strawberries. Texas A&M AgriLife extension agents will be throughout affected areas assessing the damage and the economic impacts. Fernando Gonzalez, a major produce distributor, said he is “cautiously optimistic” because the supply is good. “There’s so much product that comes into Texas from all over the United States,” Gonzalez said.