Jaimelyn Ferrante
Born and raised in Grass Valley, Jaimelyn left in 1998 after graduating Nevada Union High School to pursue her college education in the Bay Area. While living in San Mateo she met her husband Michael, a business graduate from Notre Dame in Belmont, California. He was employed as a brick mason. They returned to Penn Valley in 2002, were married, bought their first home not far from Lake Wildwood, and had their first child.

2002 was a busy year as it was also the year Jaimelyn joined The Wildwood Independent and Penn Valley Courier family.