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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.
A "Salute to Bradley Manning," the Army Pfc. accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, will be held in Berkeley Thursday with Daniel and Patricia Ellsberg and Kevin Gosztola, co-author of a book on the Manning case.
With the new disposable bag fee of 10 cents in Alameda County, reusable bags are becoming more in demand. Did you know you can help the environment and the Berkeley Public Library with a $5 library tote bag?
The Piedmont Recreation Commission will hold a special meeting and public hearing Wednesday night, Jan. 30, on proposed fee increases, schedules and financing of the Piedmont Community Pool.
A tentative proposal for a specialty market like Berkeley's Epicurious Garden to fill the space formerly occupied by 6 Degrees on Solano (near Carmel) hasn't been heard from for many moons, and no new plans have emerged.
Chevron reported Monday that 23,900 claims have been filed so far and that $10 million in compensation paid as a result of the large Aug. 6 fire at the Richmond refinery. The company also is proceeding with "comprehensive" corrective actions,
A fatal collision on Interstate 80 at Cutting Boulevard in El Cerrito tonight, Sunday, closed the westbound freeway for almost three hours, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The El Cerrito Swim Center will be closed Monday because of mechanical problems related to the pool, the city's Recreational Department said in a special alert Sunday.
If you think the printed word is gradually disappearing in the rearview mirror of the digital age, you probably weren't at the Albany Library Saturday, when the 50-cent book sale drew a swarm of book seekers.
A Berkeley High School teacher is facing charges of possessing LSD and driving under the influence after leaving a San Rafael restaurant-bar owned by Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, authorities said.
A staff member at Thousand Oaks School was sprayed in the face with pepper spray and had her purse stolen as she walked to her car after school on Tuesday, the principal said in a message to school families.
Independent filmmaker Les Blank who lives in Berkeley and whose film company, Flower Films, is based in El Cerrito, was honored at the Berkeley City Council meeting with a proclamation declaring Tuesday as "Les Blank Day in the City of Berkele
The more seriously injured of the two Albany High School students shot on the BART path in El Cerrito Wednesday is in stable condition Thursday and expected to improve, police said. The other teen was treated and released Wednesday.
A documentary featuring Canada's healthcare system as superior to America's – "The Healthcare Movie" narrated by Kiefer Sutherland – will be shown for free at the Arlington Community Church Sunday afternoon. A discussion will follow.
Here are the application letters from the three candidates seeking to fill the seat on Kensington's governing board that was emptied by the sudden resignation last month of board member Mari Metcalf.
Two teenaged males were wounded, one seriously, shortly before 2 p.m. today, Wednesday, when they were shot by two other young males on the BART path near Fairmont Elementary School and the El Cerrito Library, police said. The two assailants escaped.
The El Cerrito City Council will hold a public study session Saturday, with time for public comment, on the city's emerging Strategic Plan defining city priorities for the next decade or so. The council is expected to affirm a draft portion of the
More than 60 volunteers from near and far, from age 4 to retirees, flocked to the El Cerrito Library Saturday for the National Day of Service event to help the library. The library staff exhibited great patience amid the chaos, reports Thomas Rogers.
The sale of the Windrush School site in El Cerrito has been completed to a Richmond couple, Steve and Susan Chamberlin, who seek community input on how to use the property to help public education, the couple's representatives told Patch.
El Cerrito's Martin Luther King Jr. parade – said to be the oldest continuous King celebration in the East Bay – begins at 9:30 a.m. Monday at the Department of Motor Vehicles office and will be followed by a 10:30 a.m. rally at El Cerrito High Sch
It may look like an inexpensive tourist souvenir ukulele to most people, but to the North Berkeley woman from whose car it was stolen, the little blue uke is a family heirloom from her late grandmother. (It's also a small star on YouTube.)
