Board votes not to go it alone Citing concerns including potentially being shut out of any insurance coverage for a year, the Second Mutual Board of Directors voted last week to keep its Mutual as part of GRF’s master insurance policy at least through 2025, rather than seek a different insurance plan on its own. But that doesn’t mean board members ...

Tom Cashion has been working on improving traffic safety pretty much as long as he’s been Rossmoor’s public safety manager, about 3½ years. As part of this perpetual campaign, he appeared before the GRF Golf Advisory Committee on June 14 asking GRF golf officials and leaders of the four golf clubs for their help in convincing golf cart drivers to d...

Community group calls for new measures Ar e c ent a c c ident in which a pedestrian was struck by a golf cart has emboldened a push for more traffic and pedestrian safety measures within Rossmoor. That’s particularly true for those with the community organization Neighbors for Safer Streets, and its founder, Lynn Carruthers. Carruthers happened to ...

Free PRESTO service begins week of July 15 An autonomous shuttle pilot program overseen by the Contra Costa Transportation Authority is gearing up for a launch in Rossmoor the week of July 15. The free PRESTO driverless shuttle will make two stops: one near the entrance to the Tice Creek Fitness Center and the other at a bus stop on Tice Creek Driv...

Residents share thoughts on racial progress As a child growing up in the small, two-stoplight Texas town of Giddings, Charles Etta Richardson would watch her family prepare for weeks in anticipation of the annual Juneteenth celebration marking the end of slavery in the United States. Her mother would make bowls of potato salad and other items to se...

Other golf, Fitness Center roof projects get funding The GRF Planning Committee last week recommended funding four of five capital projects moved forward on GRF’s priority list, after the pickleball structure originally set for a mid-2024 groundbreaking moved back a year. But a fifth proposed project, a series of turf reduction efforts adjacent to ...

The process for streamlining and making equitable the use of Rossmoor’s community facilities has just begun. Policy Committee members got their first look on June 10 at proposed changes to three different GRF policies regarding GRF approved- organizations, community facilities use and guest usage policy, many of which affect room reservations. The ...

Fire safety and how evacuations function top town hall discussion A sea of hands arose from the audience at the Firewise Town Hall when asked how many were receiving Rossmoor Nixle alerts. That prompted a smile from Noell Crosse, fire education coordinator for the Contra Costa Fire Protection District, who asked that question of the crowd at the Ev...

Resident was in crosswalk at Tice Creek Drive Afemale pedestrian suffered numerous injuries after being struck by a golf cart near the intersection of Tice Creek Drive and Stanley Dollar Drive on the morning of June 1. The resident was, as of last week, in the trauma center at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek and was expected to be hospital...

Transition to EV vehicles continues in Rossmoor despite infrastructure hurdles The electric vehicle industry as a whole may be going through some upheaval so far in 2024, but it appears as though Rossmoor residents’ embrace of the EV isn’t being noticeably affected by the static of EV production changes and overall sales drops. “I expect there’s a ...