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.
An elderly woman visiting from Japan who does not speak English and is unfamiliar with the local area went missing on Thanksgiving Day.
Sleep Train in Novato, San Rafael and Sausalito will give away a Kindle Fire HD tablet and a pair of cozy Tempur-Pedic slippers to a lucky person who donates a gift to a foster child this holiday season.
Sleep Train will give away a Kindle Fire HD tablet and a pair of cozy Tempur-Pedic slippers to one lucky person who donates a gift to a foster child this holiday season. Here's how to give and enter at the Napa store.
Sleep Train in Redwood City will give away a Kindle Fire HD tablet and a pair of cozy Tempur-Pedic slippers to one lucky person who donates a gift to a foster child this holiday season.
Police say, those who get caught can expect up to $10,000 in cost and expenses if they are found guilty.
A Redwood City native shares his opinions on Monday night's City Council meeting, and the City's guidelines for public meetings.
Donate a toy for a local foster child for Sleep Train Mattress Center's Secret Santa Toy Drive, and you could win a brand new Kindle Fire tablet. The drive lasts through Dec. 16.
Donate a toy for a local foster child for Sleep Train Mattress Center's Secret Santa Toy Drive, and you could win a brand new Kindle Fire tablet. The drive lasts through Dec. 16.
The suspect was found with property from three homes she cleaned, and may have been stealing from homes from Mountain View, Los Altos, San Carlos, San Mateo and Redwood City as well.
There are short road closures at two intersections just outside of downtown.
Have way too much food left over from Thanksgiving? While eating plain leftovers is always yummy, here are a few recipes to help you get creative with them.
Councilmembers say the guide is only meant to be a tool that organizes all policies in one place, and that the rules are not drastically changing how things are done in Redwood City.
The department says DUI checkpoints have proven to be the most effective measure for reducing alcohol- and drug-related crashes.
A proposal to be discussed by the Council tonight would put stricter time limits on public comment, limit the use of electronics during meetings, and more.
An altercation broke out after one man felt another had 'disrespected his wife.' The victim is currently in the hospital.
The following information was supplied by the Redwood City Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
It's all part of the Redwood City Port's Wharf Rebuilding project.
Redwood City-based Flint Mobile Inc. introduced its new iPhone app that allows retailers to accept credit card payments by just scanning the card number.
It's less than one week to Thanksgiving. These tips from Stanford could help you prevent packing on unnecessary pounds.
The Peninsula Humane Society is looking for pets and their human companion look-alikes to participate in the annual Fashion for Compassion spring fashion show.
