Tara Conry

Tara Conry is the local editor of the Malverne-West Hempstead Patch, a hyper-local community news Web site launched in November 2010.

Tara has reported and edited for newspapers and magazines throughout New York, including The New York Daily News, Reader's Digest and SmartMoney magazine. She attained her journalism degree from Hofstra University, where she spent countless hours working for the award-winning college weekly newspaper, The Chronicle, and campus magazine, Pulse.

Her second love is theatre. Tara studied dance for 14 years, as well as acting and singing. While attending Holy Trinity High School in Hicksville she performed in various shows, including the world's first high school production of Les Miserables, and The Baker's Wife. She channels her passion for dance and energetic personality into teaching dance and group fitness classes in Long Island.

She is also a big fan of coffee, animals and outdoor sports.