Officials say a wildfire has burned more an 1,000 acres in South Texas, forcing people to evacuate, destroying three homes and knocking out power to more than 100 others.

Magnolia Filling Station opened on the corner of Fiorella and Lafayette streets in the 1920s, after automobiles displaced horse-drawn carts. She got to know baristas in the region and, despite having no previous small-business experience, acquired the keys to the old filling station in December 2017. “I knew I had to bring it back as the Filling Station,” Mackie says. They serve as mementos of the building’s past enterprises: The Old Highway Filling Station, Painter Bus Line stop, beauty shop, antiques store, and café. “But the coffee’s good, too.”Magnolia Filling Station, 1101 Fiorella St., Castroville.