Update: Pleasant Hill Patch Launches

Updated April 30: Please welcome Pleasant Hill Patch to the Patch family of more than 870 hyperlocal news and information sites.

You can read Pleasant Hill Patch on the go by downloading our apps for your smart phone. 

Pleasant Hill Patch is a place where you can connect with your neighbors to discuss the things that are most important to you and share them with others by posting your own events, announcements, photos and videos.

We also offer a business directory with free listings for more than 1,400 businesses in Pleasant Hill, including photos and all the details your customers need to know about.

If you're a business owner, look up your business in the directory and claim it, so you can use all the great free tools we offer to help you promote your business. (Watch the video with this story and .) Patch users can also rate and review your business. (Yes, that means you can post a review of the new .

We hope you'll get involved! Our users make Patch lively, interactive information hubs. You can contribute by commenting, submitting events and announcements, blogging or just letting us know what's happening in Pleasant Hill.

We're currently signing up bloggers. If you have a passion about something — your school, your pets, your church, anything — sign up to blog by clicking on the Local Voices link on the home page.

If you'd like to subscribe to our Pleasant Hill Patch newsletter, delivered to your inbox daily, weekly or when breaking news happens, just sign up for the site on the home page.

To advertise, contact Ad Manager Chris Beaver at chris.beaver@patch.com. Beaver can also make sure your business is already in our directory or help you add it if it's not.

Questions? Ideas? Email pleasanthill@patch.com.