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Santa Rosa salon owner gives a homeless man a job, connects him with son he hadn’t seen in 30 years
DeeAnna Huffman remembers hearing about Paul Wellines well before she ever met him. It was her dad who encountered him first. Paul was homeless and lived in a self-created camp near the salon Huffman co-owns on Mendocino Avenue. Some nights Paul would come down, sit at the wrought-iron table in front of the salon and use the power outlet to charge his DVD player. “My dad was probably the first ...
Soldiers with Santa Rosa-based battalion return home after long deployment
In the distance, an Allegiant Air Boeing 737 approached and like everyone around her, Julianna Hopkins of Rohnert Park looked over expectantly. Her husband, Staff Sgt. Aaron Hopkins, was aboard the plane, one of about 125 soldiers with the 579th Engineer Battalion to return home from the Middle East on Saturday. “It feels surreal that he’s actually going to be flying in at any moment right now ...
Mega Millions ticket worth $540,000 sold in California
LOS ANGELES - Feeling lucky? As the nation awaits the $279 million Mega Millions lottery winner, someone in California may be a half-million dollars richer. According to California Lottery's website late Friday night, a ticket worth $548,195 was sold at a Vons on North Figueroa Street in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles.
California’s top nursing school is CSULB School of Nursing
The 9th annual Nursing School Review by RNcareers.org has named Cal State Long Beach’s School of Nursing as the best nursing program in California. RNCareers.org compiled its merit-based rankings by assessing over 1,700 nursing programs. Program accreditation, tuition prices, academic achievement, instructor credentials, student happiness, program offerings, career success, and school reputation are some of the factors.
Builders say city impact fees hinder new housing. A recent Supreme Court ruling may give developers more power to fight them.
Jonathon Yu is not a professional developer, but he is interested in building new housing. In 2023, the 29-year-old product manager submitted plans to Sunnyvale to raze the modest 1,000-square-foot bungalow he bought a year earlier and replace it with a three-story, five-unit multifamily building. He paid a few thousand...
AB1955: Elon Musk, Sen. Scott Wiener have heated debate over new CA law
(KRON) - A heated exchange between Elon Musk and Senator Scott Wiener ensued on X over AB1955, a law that supports LGBTQ youth by increasing support for students, including allowing California school districts to choose not to disclose a child's sexual orientation to their parent. The exchange started on Tuesday. Musk reposted an article announcing […]
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