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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.
Richmond resident Kami Sherpa, who's originally from Nepal and previously lived in El Cerrito, made headlines this past week when his oath of U.S. citizenship provided an occasion to report the many mountains and life challenges he has scaled.
Prospect Sierra School teacher Madeleine Rogin is a national winner of the $10,000 grant in the online-voting Great American Teach-Off contest. She'll use the prize with her classes to restore local habitat and partner with a school in Ghana.
On the Berkeley Zoning Adjustments Board agenda tonight, April 11, is a plan to fill the long-closed Cody's bookstore on Telegraph Avenue with the "Mad Monk" complex of four restaurants, bar, performance stage and retail store.
A Berkeley family with deep roots in the city has proposed to convert the empty lot at Gilman and Curtis streets next to Westbrae Nursery into a beer garden with food trucks, outdoor seating and an open-pit fire.
Piedmont Police Chief Rikki Goede recommends a more affordable, scaled-down version of the proposed license plate reader system that would install the cameras at about a dozen entrances to the city rather than at all entry and exit points.
A Berkeley family with deep roots in the city has proposed to convert the empty lot at Gilman and Curtis streets next to Westbrae Nursery into a beer garden with food trucks, outdoor seating and an open-pit fire.
Volunteers are sought for the sudden oak death "blitz" – conducted annually by a UC Berkeley lab to track and try to contain the devastating tree disease. Training sessions take place at several Bay Area locations, including Berkeley on April
Volunteers are sought for the sudden oak death "blitz" – conducted annually by a UC Berkeley lab to track and try to contain the devastating tree disease. Training sessions take place at several Bay Area locations, including Berkeley on April
The Joint BioEnergy Institute – a research center charged with developing the next generation of biofuels and led by the Lawrence Berkeley Lab – has been awarded $125 million in federal funds for another five years.
A UC Berkeley lab is trying to track and contain the devastating tree disease. Training sessions will take place at several Northern California locations. Learn more.
The preliminary hearing for Albany resident Diane Sydenham, accused of murdering a retired Kensington psychologist with a knife to the heart, had been set for April 4 but has been delayed because of scheduling conflicts.
Volunteers are sought for the sudden oak death "blitz" – conducted annually by a UC Berkeley lab to track and try to contain the devastating tree disease. Training sessions take place at several Bay Area locations, including Berkeley on April
The Piedmont Public Safety Committee on Thursday will discuss the proposal to install license plate cameras at city entrances and exits and also home or private surveillance camera systems.
The city's annual spring egg hunt at Arlington Park offered its usual scramble of bright faces and keen eyes Saturday as kids quickly retrieved the sugary treats from the grass. Also present was a large white rabbit in a red vest with white polka d
A new zoning plan to revitalize the North Park Street district, which has been in the works for several years, goes to the City Council for a public hearing and possible approval on April 2.
A science fiction and fantasy bookstore that was a Berkeley fixture for 36 years, The Other Change of Hobbit, moved to El Cerrito this week without much fanfare as it shifts its inventory to its new digs in the old El Cerrito City Club building on Kearn
A science fiction and fantasy bookstore that was a Berkeley fixture for 36 years, The Other Change of Hobbit, moved to El Cerrito this week without much fanfare as it shifts its inventory to its new digs in the old El Cerrito City Club building on Kearn
A 25-year-old Richmond man suffered minor injuries and was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after his car smashed into a parked car about 4:30 a.m. Saturday and landed on its side between homes at Colusa and Hotchkiss, police said.
A city-sponsored town hall meeting on crime in Oakland Saturday showed that the crime problems and the residents' recommendations for improved police service in Rockridge are widely shared across the city.
The El Cerrito City Council has given the green light to hiring a Berkeley-based environmental design firm, MIG, to develop El Cerrito's "urban greening plan." The specifics will be shaped by public input.
