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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.
Occupy the Farm activists continued their occupation of a UC Berkeley lot in Albany Sunday for a second day. Some said they camped there the previous night, though a group spokeswoman had said Saturday that no overnight camping would occur.
The family-friendly Albany Arts & Green Festival Sunday featured an abundant sampling of local music, dance, skills, crafts, food, beverages and community organizations on a warm sunny day amid the greenery of Memorial Park.
The Albany police log for May 10-11 includes a man trying to lure a 16-year-old girl into his car, three arrests, 100 cyclists with boom boxes, a stolen car and bike, "out of hand" patron at Hotsy Totsy, and online dating impersonation.
Many walked, some ran and a few even kicked a soccer ball around the track at Cougar Field for Albany's annual 24-hour Relay for Life to raise awareness and funds in the battle against cancer.
About 50 Occupy the Farm activists on Saturday, May 18, returned to the university-owned lot in Albany that they occupied last weekend, replanting crops plowed under by the university and breaking new ground. UC police warned of possible arrest.
It was standing room only today, Saturday, for a meeting on a proposal by UC Berkeley, the East Bay Regional Park District and the City of Oakland to cut 85,000 non-native trees in the East Bay hills to reduce the risk of wildfires.
Police have issued an alert about a series of six reported indecent exposure crimes apparently by the same man in Albany and Berkeley in the mornings between 6 and 8.
Police have issued an alert about a series of six reported indecent exposure crimes apparently by the same man in Albany and Berkeley in the mornings between 6 and 8.
About 3,000 members of the California Nurses Association began a seven-day protest Friday at five East Bay Sutter Hospitals, including Alta Bates in Berkeley.
The outdoor swimming pool at the Albany Aquatic Center was closed today, Friday, until 4:15 because of broken glass from beer bottles thrown over the fence in the early morning hours.
More than 3,000 nurses at Alta Bates and other Sutter hospitals in the East Bay plan to walk out Friday on a seven-day protest of proposed Sutter cuts in pay and benefits.
Occupy the Farm activists have issued a call to "Re-Occupy the Farm!" this weekend, May 18 and 19, at the UC lot in Albany that they occupied last weekend before being evicted by UC Berkeley police on Monday.
Occupy the Farm activists have issued a call to "Re-Occupy the Farm!" this weekend, May 18 and 19, at the UC lot in Albany that they occupied last weekend before being evicted by UC Berkeley police on Monday.
Fifth grader Zachary Adler and Miles Williams from Ocean View School were honored in San Francisco Wednesday night for placing in the top 10 winners of a Northern California essay/poetry contest on “Why I am glad America is a nation of immigrants.”
Berkeley police will be checking for drivers under the influence of alcohol or drugs at a checkpoint on San Pablo Avenue in North Berkeley Friday night and early Saturday morning.
A UC Berkeley graduate student pled no contest to vehicular manslaughter while drunk a year ago when he crashed a car in Berkeley, causing the death of his girlfriend and her son who lived at University Village in Albany.
The Perry family was honored by the school board of the Albany Unified School District Tuesday night for their "historic role" in championing same-sex marriage rights.
UC Berkeley officials on Wednesday chastised the urban-farm activists from Occupy the Farm for an "illegal and misguided occupation" of a UC-owned lot next to University Village over the weekend.
UC Berkeley officials on Wednesday chastised the urban-farm activists from Occupy the Farm for an "illegal and misguided occupation" of a UC-owned lot next to University Village over the weekend.
