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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!

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Aerial Photo of Fukushima Protest – Harder Than It Looks

When an estimated 500 people spelled "Fukushima Is Here" at Ocean Beach, the aerial shot that would show the protest to the world turned out be a very near miss, says the human mural's conductor, Brad Newsham, who lives just off Piedmont Avenue.

Aerial Photo of Fukushima Protest – Harder Than It Looks
Alameda, CA|News|

This Wood Middle School Teacher Writes Books

Ellen Mulholland writes about love, life and ordinary kids. We're reprinting this interview with her from the AUSD's Community Bulletin for those of you who don't receive the bulletin.

This Wood Middle School Teacher Writes Books