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.
For the first time, ETC will hold a benefit performance Thursday evening in which tickets are only $5 if you bring a can of food for the Second Harvest Food Bank.
As the holidays approach, the need for help for help with food distribution increases dramatically.
Simitian authored the Kindergarten Readiness Act of 2010, changing the age requirements for students entering kindergarten and requiring all schools to offer TK classes.
Traffic is heavy near the tracks at Pennsylvania Avenue and Maple Street, and trains through the area have been halted for more than an hour.
For the first time, ETC will hold a benefit performance Thursday evening in which tickets are only $5 if you bring a can of food for the Second Harvest Food Bank.
The Adler family of Woodside is celebrating their daughter Nicole's recent crowning, and share a touching poem she wrote about the experience.
Anti-tax advocates argue that millionaires will flee from states that raise taxes on their highest earners.
A media consultant who said she is assisting Pano Logic CEO John Kish wishes to counter much of the speculation about the reasons why the tech firm mysteriously shut down last week.
Two men wearing all black were asking voters for their IDs outside a polling place in Redwood City. If you witness voter intimidation today, contact officials.
Two men wearing all black were asking voters for their IDs outside a Redwood City polling place.
If you have trouble exercising your right to vote today, call the Voter Protection Hotline: 1-800-311-VOTE.
From Redwood City-Woodside Patch: Two men wearing all black were asking voters for their IDs outside a polling place. No ID is required to vote in California.
Two men wearing all black were asking voters for their IDs outside a polling place.
In Redwood City, two men wearing all black clothing asked voters for their IDs outside a polling place. Any problems in Novato?
Two men wearing all black were asking voters for their IDs outside a polling place in Redwood City and could be trolling other polling places.
Two men wearing all black were asking voters for their IDs outside a polling place.
An election volunteer at the City Hall polling place said traffic has been steady so far today.
Eight years after a Redwood City man accused of murder fled the U.S. to escape authorities, local police discovered he was murdered in Mexico.
The child was playing in front of his home by himself when a car drove up and a woman asked him if he wanted to go with her.
Witnesses said they saw a man asking for directions back to the retreat center but he failed to appear at church service at noon Sunday.
