Rossmoor EPO tip: The American Red Cross’ pub-lic reunification tool, “Safe and Well,” established after Hurricane Katrina, is being overhauled and not available at this time. Facebook’s in-novative free “Safety Check” is an excellent alternative so Rossmoor residents can easily reunify with family and friends and register their post-disaster statu...

The Rossmoor News has early deadlines this week for the Feb. 22 paper because of the Presidents’ Day holiday. The deadline for all columns was Monday, Feb. 13 and for club trip, religion and movie articles was Tuesday, Feb. 14. All other club and organization articles are due by Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 10 a.m. All ads, obituaries and letters to the e...

A neighborhood meeting will be held Thursday, Feb. 16, at 6 p.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church to discuss the Hope Village tiny homes project. The project calls for six affordable housing units on church grounds that are each approximately 270 square feet in size. According to the city of Walnut Creek, the supportive housing project qualifies for st...

on when the residents wanted to file them; there were tables Thursday with volunteers working for filings this month, for March and for April. Future appointments can still be made, in person in the Hillside Clubhouse Vista Room, between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., on Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout tax season – that is, until April 18, “tax day” in the ...

seniors than among younger people. Something else that’s important, she said, and more COVID-specific, is for seniors to stay up to date on vaccinations, including the updated bivalent booster, which has been available for patients 12 and older since September. The vaccines help prevent people – especially seniors – from getting very sick or dying ...

work that Joel began to upgrade the department’s tools, resources and processes to ensure we meet the growing interests of the Mutuals, GRF Board, staff and community,” Matheson said. Lesser has been with GRF since March 2021. During his tenure, he helped the Accounting Department weather more than 100 percent turnover and oversaw the promotion of ...

Due to the increased risk of wildfire, the California property marketplace sees a dwindling number of insurance companies willing to cover properties that might experience wildfire damage. Remember supply and demand from high school economics class? The fewer the carriers, the higher the cost – which is a clear challenge for property owners across ...

The caption of a photograph on Page 25A of the Jan. 25 News omitted the names of two members of the Ukulele Club who were pictured. They were Alex Gioulis and Aki Rasmussen.

A celebration of life for Elayne Jones, a groundbreaking musician who lived in Rossmoor since 2005, is being held Monday, Jan. 30 at the Event Center. Jones died Dec. 17 at the age of 94. The event begins with a remembrance from 4 to 6 p.m. and a celebration starting at 6 p.m. A Caribbean dinner with vegan options follows the remembrance. The celeb...

The Public Safety Office has reopened on Saturdays for the first time since the COVID pandemic. The office, located in the Creekside Complex, is open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday. It remains closed on Sunday. Securitas still provides Rossmoor with daily security 24 hours a day, including gate access. This change affects only the Public ...