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.
A call came in to the Sheriff's Office just before 3 p.m. Sunday that a gang fight had broken out in Half Moon Bay, with a possible firearm spotted.
Teams from the City of Redwood City, the Redwood City Planning Commission, and the Cities of San Mateo and Foster City battled it out on the water at the 2012 PortFest on Saturday.
Connect Community Charter School plans to open at the start of the 2013-14 school year. 'Intent to Enroll' applications are already being filled out and turned in.
A call came in to the Sheriff's Office just before 3 p.m. that a gang fight had broken out, with a possible firearm spotted.
The creature was spotted on East Laurel Creek Friday night.
'Up' being the operative word. What's behind the steep overnight price hikes?
'Up' being the operative word. What's behind the steep overnight price hikes?
'Up' being the operative word. What's behind the steep overnight price hikes?
Police are investigating two homicides that occurred three blocks from each other late Friday night.
The woman, now identified, crashed into the center divide on I-880 around 1 a.m. Saturday morning.
San Francisco, Santa Clara County and the Peninsula all rank among the top 10 wage-earning areas in the nation according to a recent study.
A flight from San Francisco to Miami was one of the flights that was grounded Friday.
Santa Clara County, San Francisco and the Peninsula all rank among the top 10 wage-earning areas in the nation according to a recent study.
San Francisco, Santa Clara County and the Peninsula all rank among the top 10 wage-earning areas in the nation according to a recent study.
San Francisco, Santa Clara County and the Peninsula all rank among the top 10 wage-earning areas in the nation according to a recent study.
San Francisco, Santa Clara County and the Peninsula all rank among the top 10 wage-earning areas in the nation according to a recent study.
San Francisco, Santa Clara County and the Peninsula all rank among the top 10 wage-earning areas in the nation according to a recent study.
San Francisco, Santa Clara County and the Peninsula all rank among the top 10 wage-earning areas in the nation according to a recent study.
San Francisco, Santa Clara County and the Peninsula all rank among the top 10 wage-earning areas in the nation according to a recent study.
Several mailboxes in the area were broken into and their mail contents stolen this week.