Funding will determine how much gets renovated Renovation of the Dollar Clubhouse restrooms could be the first of a series of major improvements being considered to this historic structure. Other upgrades proposed for Dollar in coming years include installation of an elevator to expand access to the building’s Continued on page 19A Outdated wallpap...

Pollon led efforts to mitigate drought and wildfires Rebecca Pollon soon will be taking her landscape management expertise from Rossmoor to the schools of San Francisco. It will be quite a change of scenery for Pollon, who will do her utmost to make that scenery flourish. She finishes up as Rossmoor’s landscape manager on Feb. 11 and will take on t...

Indoor facilities won’t reopen before Feb. 8 The shutdown of all GRF indoor facilities will continue through Feb. 8, and likely a few days beyond that, as the GRF Board last week – by a split 5 to 4 vote – followed a recommendation by the county’s public health director to keep Rossmoor’s indoor public gathering places closed in deference to the CO...

Johan Hultin was expert on pandemics Dr. Johan Hultin didn’t dabble. If he did something, Karen Hill said, it was full immersion or bust. “Whatever it was, he was always 150 percent in,” Hill said of her stepfather, a Rossmoor resident since 2013, a few days after he died Jan. 22 at age 97. “He didn’t just touch lightly on Continued on page 10A Joh...

Drew Olson takes over as sector commander A new Walnut Creek Police Department commander has started dropping by Rossmoor to bolster traffic enforcement, curb crime, and help plan an evacuation drill. When the agency’s police chief promoted Drew Olson to lieutenant in late November, it also named him commander of the officers who patrol the sector ...

Lane closures will begin at the front gate on Monday, Feb. 7 as wires and cameras are installed as part of a new access control system. Public Safety Manager Tom Cashion said work at the front gate, which will necessitate lane-by-lane closures in and out of Rossmoor, will take a couple of weeks. “We thank the residents for their patience,” Cashion ...

GRF Board to prioritize proposals on Feb. 8 An emergency evacuation road from Rossmoor east to Alamo, the long-discussed water reclamation project, roof repairs at the Tice Creek pools, the second phase of studio renovations at Gateway and a prospective pickleball court location are among a host of capital projects GRF Board members will prioritize...

Ernie Glaser had seen more of the world and underbelly of human nature than many boys. But despite coming of age in Hitler’s Germany with the specter of genocide and global conflict looming, he can look back on a life full of love and success. Now 97, Glaser was born in Berlin in 1924, the only son of a small businessman and his wife. He was just 1...

Mike Wood already has one thing in common with Rossmoor as he begins his new role as a News staff writer and editor. They were both born in 1964. Wood, an East Bay native whose journalism career spans more than a quarter century, is the newest addition to the News staff, assuming the role previously occupied by Cathy Tallyn, who retired in November...

Citing the rapid spread of the COVID-19 omicron variant and skyrocketing Contra Costa County case numbers and hospitalizations since mid-December, the GRF Board voted last week morning to continue the shutdown of indoor public gathering spaces in Rossmoor until at least Jan. 27, when the next Board meeting is scheduled. Board member Ted Bentley not...