Longtime mail carrier is retiring After 36 years of bringing the mail to various Rossmoor neighborhoods (38 total years as a carrier), Maria Ruvalcaba will soon experience a deliverance of her own when she walks her final U.S. Postal Service route in mid-September. “I’m not sad – it really hasn’t hit me yet,” said Ruvalcaba, who looks younger than ...

Access control The front gate will begin testing its new access control system on Thursday, Sept. 15. In this initial testing phase, guests entering Rossmoor will have to present their driver’s license and receive paper passes that they must keep on their dashboard while visiting inside the gate. Guests and residents who have RFID tags will not be ...

Some fixed routes and weekend service could return Anumber of changes could come in the near future for the Rossmoor bus system, which include reinstating two of its five pre-pandemic fixed routes, adding a new on-demand software system, testing a pilot autonomous shuttle program and restoring weekend service, GRF officials told the Board last week...

It’s hard to avoid gloomy news about the housing market in the Bay Area and nationwide. Home sales numbers are falling, down almost 40 percent from a year ago in the Bay Area and over 20 percent nationally, as a once red-hot market fades in the rearview mirror. Mortgage rates that were quite low not long ago have soared, sidelining many from the ma...

W hile GRF leaders continue to study the practicality of building a “satellite water-recycling facility” to keep Rossmoor’s golf courses green and alive, they also publicly support a regional solution that could include supplying golf courses in Orinda and Moraga with recycled, non-potable water. While water purveyors and central Contra Costa Count...

Remembering Curt Gunn For Robert Shepherd, Curt Gunn was first a co-worker at the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency near Washington, D.C., the one who told their bossy boss what she needed to hear. “He said the stuff we all wanted to say,” Shepherd recounted. Over time, Gunn was to become both a father figure and a psychiatrist to S...

From her perch as general manager of Tice Creek Fitness Center, Kristine Drinovsky is constantly looking for ways to get more Rossmoor residents exercising more often. Turns out she had to look no further for inspiration than what many gym visitors were wearing. “So many people come in with team shirts or jerseys, and I thought I could do something...

Experience shared to help others ARossmoor resident reported that he recently lost over $50,000 as a result of an online scam that started with a purported subscription renewal email from Best Buy’s Geek Squad tech support service. He asked the News to share his story so that others may be on the lookout for this or similar scams. An email with the...

Seniors in Rossmoor and elsewhere in Contra Costa County figure to benefit significantly from health care-related components of the recently signed $737 billion federal bill that, among other things, also calls for significant climate action funding and tax reform, Contra Costa County Supervisor Candace Andersen said last week. Officials are still ...

Tree advocates welcome GRF Board’s help Board approved $35,000 with more action to come later Leela McCullough and Neva Flaherty walked up to a big coast live oak tree near Dollar Clubhouse last week, and they were pained at what they saw. “There are a lot more brown leaves now … and it was just 30 days ago” when she had last taken a careful look, ...