I started with Patch as the copy editor for 11 Patch sites: Alameda, Albany, Castro Valley, El Cerrito, Hercules, Newark, Piedmont, Pinole, San Leandro, San Lorenzo and Union City. Currently I am the local editor at Piedmont Patch and Alameda Patch. Questions? dixie.jordan@patch.com.
Before coming to Patch, I was the editor and publisher of Parents Press, a magazine for Bay Area parents, for more years than I like to remember. Before that, I was news editor at the Contra Costa Times and a reporter at various Northern California newspapers.
I am a fifth generation Californian who has lived in the East Bay most of my life and a graduate of UC Berkeley. For fun, I volunteer on archaeology digs, mostly in Ireland and the Southwest.
My brilliant and beautiful daughter, Jenny, a school psychologist, just married the charming Chris Davidson and they are living in Austin, Texas — too far way!
Open now: Box and Bells on College. Opening next week: Penrose & Sons on Grand. Closing: Mezze on Lakeshore. Plus meet vegetarian cookbook author Mollie Katzen.
Here’s what’s playing in theaters around town this weekend.
The "high explosive projectile" was removed by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office explosives squad.
One accident happened Tuesday on Bay Farm Island, the second Thursday on Webster Street.
Under California's Kindergarten Readiness Act, children must turn 5 years old by Sept. 1, 2014, to enroll for public school kindergarten for the 2014-15 academic year.
National test score results were released Thursday.
National test score results were released Thursday.
The removal work is expected to take through the end of this year.
Why is this license plate sitting in the middle of Linda Avenue? It was a test plate for part of Piedmont's new license plate reader system.
Local Assemblymember Rob Bonta takes to the soccer field this weekend in a fundraiser match.
Find homes for sale in the region on this page every week, from our partners at Zillow.
Find homes for sale in the region on this page every week, from our partners at Zillow.
Coaches and players will take to wheelchairs for this 3-on-3 benefit tournament.
Why is this license plate sitting in the middle of Linda Avenue? It was a test plate for part of Piedmont's new license plate reader system.
