Lapidary Studio has display of some of his art Sometimes it’s the smallest of things that can have the greatest value – in more ways than one – and John Bernardin has been proving that for four decades. A retired research chemist and assistant director of the regional U.S. Department of Agriculture facility in Albany, this three-year resident of Ro...

The Rossmoor Chamber Music Society is a much-loved, integral and revered part of Rossmoor’s arts community. So is Rosemarie Krovoza. After 12 years as the society’s president in which she has been a catalyst behind countless performances presented in Rossmoor, Krovoza has decided to retire. She will remain active in the music community. “I love bei...

Atown hall workshop will be held Thursday, July 14, in the Donner Room at the Event Center to give residents a chance to learn and ask questions about the Facilities Master Plan before it is adopted by the GRF Board, potentially later this month. The meeting is scheduled from 1 to 2 p.m., with Director of Resident Services Jeff Matheson providing a...

Residents are invited to submit suggestions to rename Berm Park, which starts off Tice Creek Drive and runs parallel of Golden Rain Road. The idea to rename the park came up during a Policy Committee meeting. The Board last month agreed that the park should have a more inspired name than “Berm,” which is defined as a path or grass strip beside a ro...

Board also decides to raise pay for News carriers Over the objections of a group of residents who favored a sound study before starting design work, the GRF Board on Thursday voted unanimously to hire a landscape architecture firm to design a pickleball complex near the Event Center. A second firm will conduct a sound study of how noise generated b...

CROCKETT – John Siebert was clearly in his element in the old Odd Fellows Hall building in the shadow of the massive C& H Sugar refining mill at the center of this onetime company town. Siebert was talking with various people coming to look at the scale model trains that now consume much of this sizeable structure. “This is a great way to meet ...

Aiming to build upon encouraging results from the first year, organizers of the Dementia and Diabetes Prevention Program study are gearing up for year two in Rossmoor. The program, a partnership between UC Davis and Tice Creek Fitness Center, is built upon taking preventative measures with diet and exercise. Organizers will be seeking new qualified...

With rates likely facing another costly hike for 2023, the GRF and Mutuals are exploring possible alternatives for property insurance that would avoid a deductible increase from $250,000 to $1 million. Chief Financial Officer Joel Lesser told the Finance Committee last week that many insurance renewals set to occur July 1 are seeing rate increases ...

GRF Planning Committee The GRF Planning Committee voted on June 23 to recommend pursuing study of an area just southwest of the Event Center as a prospective home for a new pickleball facility, opting for it over sites at the Buckeye Tennis Complex and the existing pickleball courts at Creekside. Included in this will be hiring a landscape architec...

Leak stopped on north end of Golf Pond At the beginning of the year, there was an ominous display on the north end of the golf course pond, near the weir and spillway. “The water would literally bubble up from the ground,” Rossmoor golf course crews in March patched a leak in the golf pond floor near the concrete spillway that is delaying the need ...