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Now in my fourth year with Patch.com, I'm the editor of and Albany Patch and Berkeley Patch.
I worked many years as a staff writer and editor at the San Francisco Chronicle until April of 2009, when I switched to freelancing. I then wrote for the Los Angeles Times and other publications, and I also took on editing assignments for UC Berkeley and the United Nations.
Being an East Bay reporter for Patch brings my career full circle in the East Bay. My first bylines appeared in the East Bay Review of the Performing Arts. I next worked as a reporter and editor at the Daily Californian while studying at UC Berkeley, where I obtained a master's in journalism. I was a reporter at the Contra Costa Independent, Berkeley Gazette and San Francisco Examiner before moving to the Chronicle, where I worked several years in the Berkeley bureau and in the main East Bay bureau in Oakland.
The recently acquired pickup truck of the nonprofit Urban Creeks Council was stolen overnight on Saturday night in North Berkeley, and the group is asking the public's help in returning it.
The recently acquired pickup truck of the nonprofit Urban Creeks Council was stolen overnight on Saturday night in North Berkeley, and the group is asking the public's help in returning it.
The recently acquired pickup truck of the nonprofit Urban Creeks Council was stolen overnight on Saturday night in North Berkeley, and the group is asking the public's help in returning it.
Some salad products sold at Trader Joe's, Whole Foods and Walgreens have been recalled because of possible contamination by a strain of E. coli bacteria that can cause serious illness.
Some salad products sold at Trader Joe's, Whole Foods and Walgreens have been recalled because of possible contamination by a strain of E. coli bacteria that can cause serious illness.
Cub and Boy Scouts along with members of Lions Clubs from Albany, Berkeley, Crockett and El Cerrito placed flags at the graves of veterans at Sunset View Cemetery in El Cerrito on Veterans Day today, Monday.
Cub and Boy Scouts along with members of Lions Clubs from Albany, Berkeley, Crockett and El Cerrito placed flags at the graves of veterans at Sunset View Cemetery in El Cerrito on Veterans Day today, Monday.
Some salad products sold at Trader Joe's, Whole Foods and Walgreens have been recalled because of possible contamination by a strain of E. coli bacteria that can cause serious illness.
Some salad products sold at Trader Joe's, Whole Foods and Walgreens have been recalled because of possible contamination by a strain of E. coli bacteria that can cause serious illness.
Some salad products sold at Trader Joe's, Whole Foods and Walgreens have been recalled because of possible contamination by a strain of E. coli bacteria that can cause serious illness.
Some salad products sold at Trader Joe's, Whole Foods and Walgreens have been recalled because of possible contamination by a strain of E. coli bacteria that can cause serious illness.
Some salad products sold at Trader Joe's, Whole Foods and Walgreens have been recalled because of possible contamination by a strain of E. coli bacteria that can cause serious illness.
Some salad products sold at Trader Joe's, Whole Foods and Walgreens have been recalled because of possible contamination by a strain of E. coli bacteria that can cause serious illness.
Some salad products sold at Trader Joe's, Whole Foods and Walgreens have been recalled because of possible contamination by a strain of E. coli bacteria that can cause serious illness.
The Albany school board on Tuesday night will consider approval of new 3-year union contract containing a 4-percent raise for maintenance, custodial, food service and transportation employees.
The Albany police log for Nov. 1 includes one phone stolen at Albany High and another at 7-Eleven, shoplifting at Am/Pm, a screaming woman kicking Safeway walls and the arrest of a very intoxicated man at Golden Gate Fields.
The latest iPhone operating system, iOS 7, has a feature that might reduce the scourge of cell phone robberies. It can render the phone inoperable if the device is stolen.
The latest iPhone operating system, iOS 7, has a feature that might reduce the scourge of cell phone robberies in Berkeley and elsewhere. It can render the phone inoperable if the device is stolen.
The Albany school board has scheduled an hour-long review and discussion of possible ways to reduce K-3 class sizes. An ad hoc group, ""Committee of Concerned Parents," formed at the beginning of the school year to address the issue.
We thank Cougar Online for permission to reprint its article on both of Albany High's varsity cross country teams advancing to the championship competition for the North Coast Section (NCS), one of the state's 10 regions for high school athletics.
