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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.
A "Taste of North Berkeley" sampling of Gourmet Ghetto food and beverages will be offered Tuesday in a benefit for Berkeley school gardens and cooking programs. The programs have been scaled back because of lost federal funding.
A memorial service celebrating the life of Monica Riley, a pioneering biologist who received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley on Nov. 17. Riley died Oct. 11 at age 87 in Richmond.
A memorial service celebrating the life of Monica Riley, a pioneering biologist who received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley (in Kensington) on Nov. 17. Riley died Oct. 11 at age 87.
The top three most read articles on Berkeley Patch for the first week in November include the body found in the water at the Berkeley waterfront, a Cal student attacked by four males in a robbery attempt on campus and the city's new parking policy.
The Cougars volleyball team collected another title for Albany High Saturday, defeating Saint Joseph Notre Dame in a three-game sweep in the finals to win the Tri-County Athletic League championship.
In case you missed any of them, here are the five most read articles on Albany Patch during the past week.
A memorial service celebrating the life of Monica Riley, a pioneering biologist who received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley on Nov. 17. Riley died Oct. 11 at age 87 in Richmond.
The Cougars varsity football team may have gotten off to an inauspicious start this season but they are finishing in grand style, having trounced John Swett High 52-0 in a home game Friday night.
Nicholas Dirks, who has been UC Berkeley chancellor since June, was officially sworn in a campus ceremony today, Friday. In an address, he pledged to focus on undergrad curriculum, research opportunities for students and greater accessibility.
The Albany police logs for Oct. 30-31 include a burglar reported inside a residence, a fawn in the street after being hit by an auto, a bicyclist arrested for metal knuckles, a yelling man in black and sewer problems at the police station.
Veteran Middle East freelance correspondent Reese Erlich will speak at Fellowship Hall in Berkeley Sunday night on "Syria in Crisis." Erlich's five reporting trips to Syria have included interviews with President Assad and rebel leaders.
The match to decide the girls' volleyball champions of the Tri-County Athletic League takes place Saturday night when the Albany High Cougars host the Pilots of St. Joseph Notre Dame.
The 16-year-old accused of setting a Berkeley Maybeck High student on fire on an AC Transit bus has been charged with a hate crime. He told police he ignited the skirt-wearing male teen because he is homophobic, authorities said.
The Albany police logs for Oct. 28-29 include a beating at a taco truck, a battery that sent the victim to the emergency room, a person hit in the mouth near the police station, several thefts at Target and a resident illegally painting a curb red.
Cue the spotlight. The famously reclusive original Bay Bridge troll, who recently retired from his well-hidden, 20-year perch beneath the soon-to-be demolished old eastern span of the Bay Bridge, will be on temporary exhibit at the Oakland Museum.
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