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Now in my fourth year with Patch.com, I'm the editor of and Albany Patch and Berkeley Patch.
I worked many years as a staff writer and editor at the San Francisco Chronicle until April of 2009, when I switched to freelancing. I then wrote for the Los Angeles Times and other publications, and I also took on editing assignments for UC Berkeley and the United Nations.
Being an East Bay reporter for Patch brings my career full circle in the East Bay. My first bylines appeared in the East Bay Review of the Performing Arts. I next worked as a reporter and editor at the Daily Californian while studying at UC Berkeley, where I obtained a master's in journalism. I was a reporter at the Contra Costa Independent, Berkeley Gazette and San Francisco Examiner before moving to the Chronicle, where I worked several years in the Berkeley bureau and in the main East Bay bureau in Oakland.
The Alameda County Transportation Commission has called off the recount of votes in the Nov. 6 narrow defeat of Measure B1, a proposed one-cent sales tax boost for transportation. The move follows a partial recount this week.
The Alameda County Transportation Commission has called off the recount of votes in the Nov. 6 narrow defeat of Measure B1, a proposed one-cent sales tax boost for transportation. The move follows a partial recount this week.
Diane Sydenham, the Albany woman charged with killing 81-year-old James Durkin of Kensington with a steak knife to the heart, appeared in court Thursday, but the case was put over to next year because of continuing investigation.
Diane Sydenham, the Albany woman charged with killing 81-year-old James Durkin of Kensington with a steak knife to the heart, appeared in court Thursday, but the case was put over to next year because of continuing investigation.
The Caldecott Tunnel turned 75 Wednesday, while today, Thursday, December 6 features a ceremony honoring school kids whose designs were chosen for the large decorative medallions to be installed above the Caldecott's new fourth bore.
There's big news in the local creek restoration world. A 2-foot-long fish seen Monday in Codornices Creek is being called the first Chinook salmon ever reported in that stream, at least in modern times. Codornices runs along the Albany-Berkeley bor
If blue is the Democrat color, the deepest indigo in Contra Costa County is the western corner with El Cerrito and its immediate neighbors, according to the final Presidential election results. Guess which part is on the baby blue end of the spectrum?
The tunnel turns 75 years old today - and is getting ready to open its fourth bore next year.
The Caldecott Tunnel turns 75 Wednesday, while Thursday features a ceremony honoring school kids — including two from Lafayette — whose designs were chosen for the large decorative medallions to be installed above the Caldecott's new fourth bore.
Two El Cerrito residents were honored by the City Council Tuesday night: U.S. Olympic women's swim coach Teri McKeever and advocate for after-school science Carol Tang, Receiving a $2,500 city grant was the WriterCoach Connection.
El Cerrito Tuesday night got a new mayor, Greg Lyman, who said he's optimistic about completing a "Strategic Plan" and abstract sculptures on streetlight poles, plus "solidifying support" for a new library, senior center and pub
The Caldecott Tunnel turns 75 today, Wednesday, while tomorrow features a ceremony honoring school kids whose designs were chosen for the large decorative medallions to be installed above the Caldecott's new fourth bore.
The Caldecott Tunnel turns 75 today, Wednesday, while tomorrow features a ceremony honoring school kids whose designs were chosen for the large decorative medallions to be installed above the Caldecott's new fourth bore.
The Caldecott Tunnel turns 75 today while tomorrow features a ceremony honoring schoolchildren whose designs were chosen for the large decorative medallions to be installed above the Caldecott's new fourth bore.
The Caldecott Tunnel turns 75 today, Wednesday, while tomorrow features a ceremony honoring school kids whose designs were chosen for the large decorative medallions to be installed above the Caldecott's new fourth bore.
A man struck by a car Sunday night on westbound Interstate 580 at Harbour Way in Richmond has been identified as a 42-year-old resident of Oakland, according to the Contra Costa County Coroner's bureau.
In this guest feature, Kensington parent Charles Reichmann questions Kensington's strong support of tax measures for West Contra Costa schools in contrast to low support for sending Kensington kids to the district's middle and high schools.
A car driven by a parent who'd just picked up her daughter Monday at Madera School in El Cerrito jumped the curb and hit a father walking with his son on the sidewalk, police said. He was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The inter-city bus company Megabus is returning to California and Nevada with tickets as low as $1 and Bay Area stops in Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose. Double-decker buses feature free Wi-Fi, power outlets, tables and restrooms.
The FDA shut down the plant whose peanut butter products under many brands were recalled because of salmonella contamination linked to people sickened in 20 states. The items were sold by Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, Safeway and others.
