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Plus: New community center to be renamed after President Barack Obama.

I was born in a small port community in Los Angeles county where I worked for community newspapers and served my local community college paper as an editor. I moved to San Francisco in 2009 to complete my BA in journalism with a minor in political science.
I have since worked for a Latino online news publication in lower Manhattan, where I kept up to date on pertinent Latino news and figures in the community. I began working for Patch.com in April 2014.
When I am not being a journalist, you can find me watching hockey, being particularly snobby about coffee and beer, reading, playing pit crew for my family's vintage drag racing team and/or writing poetry.
Plus: New community center to be renamed after President Barack Obama.

Plus: New community center to be renamed after President Barack Obama.
Plus: New community center to be renamed after President Barack Obama.
The group hopes to narrow its focus in the community to better serve what requires the most attention.
The group hopes to narrow its focus in the community to better serve what requires the most attention.
The group hopes to narrow its focus in the community to better serve what requires the most attention.
The group hopes to narrow its focus in the community to better serve what requires the most attention.
The group hopes to narrow its focus in the community to better serve what requires the most attention.
Olivia Bednash will receive her Gold Award, a project requiring at least 80 hours of work, for building play area for shelter cats.
This is the final season of the company's 23rd season of traveling Shakespeare performances.
Plus: Tom's River Little League team clinches a berth for the semifinals.
European-style Fresh Market will fill the 23,000 space in the Village at Livingston.
Cabaret for a Cause will return to feature talents of young people from around New Jersey and New York.
Cabaret for a Cause will return to feature talents of young people from around New Jersey and New York.
Cabaret for a Cause will return to feature talents of young people from around New Jersey and New York.
Cabaret for a Cause will return to feature talents of young people from around New Jersey and New York.
Cabaret for a Cause will return to feature talents of young people from around New Jersey and New York.
The undefeated boys team claimed the championship spot with a score of 18-3.
Wiss and Company, an accounting firm based in Livingston, received the Above and Beyond award from NJASBO.
Participants will get to make doll companions, princess crowns and their own herbal tea with mint from the museum's garden.