Weekdays, Jerrol Reavis is GRF’s new operations manager. Weekends, he’s a rock star. The Bay Area native is the founder and lead guitarist of Majestic – San Francisco’s Ultimate Tribute to Journey. The five-person rock group has performed at such places as Bimbo’s 365 Club and Slim’s in San Francisco; Harrah’s in Atlantic City; and The Nugget Casin...

Starting today, Contra Costa County residents will be required to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or a recent negative test result to enter certain indoor businesses, including Tice Creek Fitness Center and Creekside Grill and Bar. The new health order applies to customers 12 and older entering restaurants, gyms and other indoor business...

All unvaccinated GRF employees will need to provide results from a weekly COVID-19 test starting Monday, Sept. 27. The new mandate applies to all full-, part-time and on-call employees who are not fully vaccinated. CEO Tim O’Keefe announced the requirement in a memo to staff last week. In it, he wrote, “The virulence of this continuing pandemic and...

Rossmoor has a new tool in the effort to protect residents from wildfire: cameras. Thanks to the Lafayette Police Department, two cameras focused on the fireprone wilderness areas surrounding Rossmoor are now in operation: one at Lucas and Stanley Dollar drives and another installed Thursday on Terra Granada Drive. GRF Public Safety Manager Tom Cas...

Rossmoor residents can say hello to Mohammad Samim Karimi on most Friday mornings, manning a booth where he sells hummus. One recent Friday, he was jovial, chatting up the market regulars who stopped by, some of whom walked away with small tubs of Hummus Heav-en, or cellophane bags of flatbread. “The people here are nice, friendly, and I like comin...

Can you picture a rooftop restaurant and cocktail lounge in the Rossmoor Shopping Center? The owner can. Terrence Tallen can visualize just that in the second phase of the center’s gradual rebirth, which started in 2016. The old 1960s feel of the Rossmoor Shopping Center is almost gone as its makeover continues. The 55-year-old center has been repu...

A Rossmoor Parkway Entry 5 garage was badly damaged on Monday, Aug. 30, when a GRF employee said he lost control of his work truck, hit a curb and careened down an embankment, running into a tree alongside building 3377. The accident sheared the tree in half and caused structural damage to the left corner of the garage. The driver received minor Em...

It’s a story that’s been told around Rossmoor for decades. Bad guys easily sneak past indifferent security guards and make off with Rossmoor residents’ cars, jewelry, mail and other valuables – even the catalytic converters beneath their cars. Rossmoor Public Safety Manager Tom Cashion hears it all the time. “Since I took over (in April), I’ve hear...

Pr op onent s of th e Rossmoor Solar Initiative, a long-term plan to work with outside energy firms to bring solar power to as many Rossmoor Mutuals as will buy in, said they will take into consideration a recent GRF-commissioned consultant’s report critical of the initiative. It’s also premature, they say, to conclude the proposed solar initiative...

Philip Slakey recently shared with his Rossmoor Parkway neighbor a letter he wrote to Public Safety Manager Tom Cashion. She suggested Slakey share the letter and Cashion’s answers in the News so residents could see what is being done – and what is still to come – for security in Rossmoor. We liked the idea, too, so here are Slakey’s News photo by ...