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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.
At a forum for transit planners Thursday, Anthony Bruzzone of the Arup planning firm said traffic demand on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge could exceed capacity by 2035 or 2040.
By using his $30,000 in life savings to buy Tesla stock in 2011, a 22-year-old student at the University of California at Berkeley now has an investment worth $250,000, a more than eight-fold increase, according to CNBC.
A photo of a jasmine flower inside a soap bubble taken by Zohe Slack, who graduated from Albany High this past spring, was selected as one of the top 100 in a national high school physics photo contest.
Berkeley and San Francisco will be test cities for federally funded experiment to try a electric bicycle sharing, similar to car sharing, but more eco friendly. The UC Berkeley Transportation Sustainability Research Center will evaluate the program.
The Actors Ensemble of Berkeley is presenting Lee Blessing's "Fortinbras," a modern tale which picks up where "Hamlet" ends. The free performances in the park are this weekend, Aug. 24-25, and the following weekend, including Labor Day.
Volunteers are welcome for a work party to rid lower Cerrito Creek next to Albany Hill of invasive plants on Saturday, Aug. 24. Tools, gloves and snacks will be provided by Friends of Five Creeks.
The Albany police log for Aug. 16 includes a stolen car, a female upset after being accused of stealing toilet paper, a drunken woman driver weaving on San Pablo, a man waving a sword-like object and someone screaming obscenities and a slamming door.
The Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association is holding a "Love My Market" photo competition until the end of this month. You still have eight days to submit a photo from a local farmers' market.
In the latest Albany Community eNewsletter – published today, Friday – outgoing City Manager Beth Pollard offered her thanks and appreciation for an important feature that first attracted her to the city: "People in Albany Care."
The Albany police logs for Aug. 14-15 include a purse stolen at a bus stop on Solano, theft arrests at Target, a noisy rooster in the early a.m., a stolen bike found on Craigslist, and a loose dog being aggressive towards kids on Spokane.
Patch.com partner Zillow.com provides updates for new homes for sale in Albany. Here are the latest.
UC Berkeley police issued an appeal today, Thursday, for the public's help in recapturing a man who escaped custody after being detained by UC staff and arrested by police for an alleged campus robbery.
The California State Auditor will conduct an audit of the University of California at Berkeley's responses to sexual assaults in the wake of student complaints about how the campus handles such incidents.
A Berkeley woman and two other women from the East Bay have been indicted for allegedly filing false income tax returns and collecting thousands of dollars in fraudulent refunds, the U.S. Attorney's office in San Francisco announced today, Thursday.
Thieves pretending to be PG&E employees stole cash and jewelry from the elderly owners of a home in the Crocker Highlands district of Oakland Tuesday afternoon, police said.
Thieves pretending to be PG&E employees stole cash and jewelry from the elderly owners of a home in the Crocker Highlands district of Oakland Tuesday afternoon, police said.
The law school dean at the University of California at Berkeley, Christopher Edley, announced he is seeking treatment for prostate cancer and will step down effective Dec. 31. He will stay at the school as a faculty member, he said.
The City of Albany is planning to move forward with its goal of turning the Albany Bulb over to the East Bay Regional Park District. It's not known what will happen to the Bulb artworks made from shore debris and other makeshift items.
The City of Albany plans to move forward with its goal of turning the Albany Bulb over to the East Bay Regional Park District. It's not known what will happen to the Bulb artworks made from shore debris and other makeshift items.
A senior at the University of California at Berkeley writes in a Berkeleyside op-ed column about being mugged by unarmed assailants a block from her home and asks why a bystander two yards away didn't "step in or speak up."
