Austin Murphy

1 week ago | sanluisobispo.com | Austin Murphy

There is nothing wrong with your computer, Ed Mills assured a reporter during a recent Zoom interview. "My hair is actually blue." As vice president of strategic enrollment at Sonoma State University, Mills is a senior member of the administration which issued a challenge to SSU's Student Association last fall. If the students could register 1,000 or more voters for the November election, members of the cabinet would color their hair Seawolves blue.

1 week ago | pressdemocrat.com | Austin Murphy

And then during the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a very large shift toward students not leaving their regional area for school. During that time, as an exacerbating factor, there was a significant reduction (at Sonoma State) in marketing and recruitment. PD: Talk about the importance of marketing and recruitment, and what happens when it is ineffective, or goes away.

1 week ago | sanluisobispo.com | Austin Murphy

Beers will be 20% off at the "Fund a Future Citizen" event hosted Thursday by Catholic Charities of Northwest California at HenHouse Brewing, on Bellevue Avenue in Santa Rosa. The event, described by Catholic Charities CEO Jennielynn Holmes as "grassroots and pretty informal," starts at 5 p.m. Part of its purpose will be to address the shortfall resulting from the recent cancellation, by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, of the nonprofit's U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services grant.

1 week ago | pressdemocrat.com | Austin Murphy

Beers will be 20% off at the “Fund a Future Citizen” event hosted Thursday by Catholic Charities of Northwest California at HenHouse Brewing, on Bellevue Avenue in Santa Rosa. The event, described by Catholic Charities CEO Jennielynn Holmes as “grassroots and pretty informal,” starts at 5 p.m. Part of its purpose will be to address the shortfall resulting from the recent cancellation, by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, of the nonprofit’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services grant.

2 weeks ago | pressdemocrat.com | Austin Murphy

Frank Gaul was just trying to get to work. The 36-year-old from Santa Rosa is a file maintenance clerk at the Safeway in Windsor. If you’re struggling to find something on the shelves, said Gaul with a laugh, “I can tell you exactly where it is.”Last year, on June 22, he did not show up at the supermarket for his early morning shift. Gaul was riding his orange, Vitalin V3 ebike north on Fulton Road at around 3:15 a.m. when a vehicle pulled up behind him, then flicked on its high beams, he recalled.