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P.O. Box 1063
New Canaan, CT
06840-1063

Hometown: New Canaan, CT

Birthday: September 8

Bio: Amy Jeffries prefers her 1983 vintage Schwinn 10-speed to any other form of transport. If she wasn't making a living in journalism, she'd be a part-time farmer and spend the rest of her days doodling on various instruments and dabbling in various languages.

Before Patch, Amy was a staff reporter for WNPR in Hartford and a contributor to National Public Radio. She also did a brief stint with the Associated Press in Johannesburg.

She has mentored teen journalists in youth media projects in Connecticut and California and taught radio to graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley.

Her reporting has taken her to China, Zimbabwe, South Africa, hurricane-ravaged Louisiana, economically-challenged Ohio, and now New Canaan.

Back when she was a tiny tiny thing Amy went to East School, and she's a graduate of NCHS where she was the weakest link on the math team and first chair flute in the band.

Beliefs
At Patch, we promise always to report the facts as objectively as possible and otherwise adhere to the principles of good journalism. However, we also acknowledge that true impartiality is impossible and human beings have beliefs. So in the spirit of simple honesty, our policy is to encourage our editors to reveal certain key beliefs to the extent they feel comfortable.

This disclosure is not a license for our editors to inject these beliefs into stories or to dictate coverage according to them. In fact, the intent is the opposite: we hope that the knowledge that our beliefs are on the record will force us to be ever mindful to write, report, and edit in a fair, balanced way. And if you, the user, ever think you see evidence that we failed in this mission, we wholeheartedly invite you to let us know.


Politics

• How would you describe your political beliefs?

        I grew up in Connecticut, which, besides the Gold Coast, is fiscally Democratic and socially Libertarian. I'm for that.

Religion

• How religious would you say you are? Casual, observant, devout, non-religious?

             I'm a devout agnostic.

Local Hot Button Issues

• What do you think are the most important issues facing the community?

Property values and the trimmings that go with them.

• Where do you stand on each of these issues?

Things are changing. It's going to be interesting.