Jennifer van der Kleut (formerly Jennifer McBride) was born and raised in the southern San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. She graduated from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at San Jose State University. She was a full-time writer for Silicon Valley Community Newsgroup from 2004 to 2006, writing for newspapers such as the Los Gatos Weekly and Saratoga News, among others. She wrote the weekly history column Los Gatos: Now and Then for the Los Gatos Daily News throughout 2007, and was a contributing editor at South Bay Accent Magazine from 2008 to 2009. She has also lent her voice to many other publications such as the Los Gatos Weekender and the online Brizzly Guide.
Jennifer was one of the very first freelance writers to contribute to many of the first Bay Patch sites in the Bay Area when they first launched in the fall of 2010. After contributing for more than a year and a half, Jennifer was hired on as an official Patch employee in May of 2012. She is very excited to be a full-fledged member of the Patch family.
In California, Jennifer served as the interim editor for Milpitas Patch in the South Bay, an associate editor for the San Mateo and Foster City Patch sites on the Peninsula, and then served as the head local editor for RedwoodCity-Woodside Patch, before transferring to the east coast in April of 2013.
Jennifer is now the local editor for both Herndon Patch and Fairfax City Patch. She loves being a part of these two communities and getting to know her new home in Northern Virginia.
Jennifer currently lives in the Clifton/Centreville with her husband, Alex and her two sons, Connor, born in Sept. 2007, and Oliver, or Ollie, born in May 2010.
The suspect reportedly 'befriended' several elderly residents and 'borrowed' substantial amounts of money from them, then disappeared.
'EA's shareholders expect better, and I am accountable,' his resignation letter reads.
The Redwood City CHP Office says - think before you send that next text, because we'll be watching.
Shilo Salem held employees at gunpoint to steal $3,000 from the Redwood Shores Starbucks in 2005.
A husband and wife who still remain at Pete's Harbor describe the situation they are enduring, and how it has affected the husband's deteriorating health.
Between Monday to Friday, Caltrans will work on installing an Intelligent Transportation System.
Shilo Salem held employees at gunpoint to steal $3,000 from the Redwood Shores Starbucks.
The Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Greater Bay Area granted Jennifer a wish earlier this month.
Local teens in the Young Dreamer Network travel to other countries like Costa Rica, Guatemala and next, India, to help rebuild impoverished communities.
Users will be able to pick up a bicycle at any sharing kiosk and return it to any other kiosk within the system.
A new federal database compares the wait time at Peninsula hospitals like Kaiser-Redwood City, Stanford and Sequoia. What would you guess it to be?
The festive annual event starts at 11:30 a.m.
The officer suffered moderate injuries.
Analysts are calling the company's debut Wednesday 'impressive' and 'gold.'
The Redwood City-based digital marketing company shares photos from some of its local 'giving back' projects like feeding residents of Maple Street Shelter, and more.
Incidents from the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office blotter in Woodside from Feb. 26 to March 5. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
San Mateo County drivers who prefer to head to Costco for gas will soon see eight new pumps at the superstore's gas station.
A Santa Clara man unhappy with the senator's efforts toward increased gun control threatened his life with firearms and homemade explosive devices in January.
An advisory committee is looking for members of the public who wish to weigh in.
Some of the latest news from Redwood City's City Council.