I started with Patch as the copy editor for 11 Patch sites: Alameda, Albany, Castro Valley, El Cerrito, Hercules, Newark, Piedmont, Pinole, San Leandro, San Lorenzo and Union City. Currently I am the local editor at Piedmont Patch and Alameda Patch. Questions? dixie.jordan@patch.com.
Before coming to Patch, I was the editor and publisher of Parents Press, a magazine for Bay Area parents, for more years than I like to remember. Before that, I was news editor at the Contra Costa Times and a reporter at various Northern California newspapers.
I am a fifth generation Californian who has lived in the East Bay most of my life and a graduate of UC Berkeley. For fun, I volunteer on archaeology digs, mostly in Ireland and the Southwest.
My brilliant and beautiful daughter, Jenny, a school psychologist, just married the charming Chris Davidson and they are living in Austin, Texas — too far way!
A half dozen ways to enjoy yourself in Alameda, Friday through Sunday: Redux anniversary, art gallery grand opening (with champagne...), art walk, classic car show, glassblowing demonstrations and a paint-it-yourself workshop.
Oakland police closed the area to traffic as they investigated.
Oakland police closed the area to traffic as they investigated.
About 20 percent more PUSD students wanted to take the test this year than signed up for the exam in 2012, school officials said.
Toomie's Thai Cuisine routinely required employees to work long hours, seven days a week, but failed to pay state-mandated overtime and split-shift differentials, according to an investigation by state agencies.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday issued a public health alert after raw chicken products produced by three facilities of privately owned Foster Farms in California sickened hundreds of people.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday issued a public health alert after raw chicken products produced by three facilities of privately owned Foster Farms in California sickened hundreds of people.
The Little Farm in the Tilden Nature Area – whose cows, pigs, goats, sheep and chickens draw many families and fascinated kids – will close beginning Oct. 15, 2013 for an extended period for a major sewer construction project.
The Little Farm in the Tilden Nature Area – whose cows, pigs, goats, sheep and chickens draw many families and fascinated kids – will close beginning Oct. 15, 2013 for an extended period for a major sewer construction project.
A Piedmont Avenue tradition is back for the 2013 Halloween season.
Some of the job postings online for the Piedmont area this week.
Some of the people with ties to Piedmont who passed away recently.
Local crime novelist Charles Kerns has just published his second choco-centric mystery, wherein the trail from an explosion in Oaxaca, Mexico ultimately leads to Alameda.
Some of the people with ties to Alameda who passed away recently.
Some of the job postings online for the Alameda area this week.
James Roda, a server and fryer cook at The Original Red Onion on Park Street, is hospitalized in stable but unconscious condition after the incident near Lake Merritt in Oakland.
Jewelry worth more than $60,000 was stolen from a Piedmont home, but the owner delayed reporting the theft until she made an extensive search of her house — just in case she had misplaced the jewelry boxes.
The city's also planning free valet bike parking at the Main Street ferry terminal.
Plus an attack on a restaurant employee and plenty of thefts.
