Work to completely upgrade the Hillside Clubhouse restrooms could start as early as this week. The project has been on hold since March as new construction was halted under a county public health order to halt the spread of the deadly coronavirus. “The contractor has the permit and is completing his first round of submittals,” said Resident Service...

Anne-Marie Jensen has stopped buying lipstick when she’s bored. Ever since the COVID-19 shelterin- place shuttered Rossmoor and kept people indoors as much as possible, this retired Oakland firefighter has new hobby: plants. “I’ve kind of gone off the deep end,” she said. “In the past two months I’ve bought 28 plants, everything from vegetables to ...

More Rossmoor Scenes Strict new safety measures will be in place Friday when the Rossmoor Farmers Market opens for the season from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Gateway parking lot. Deemed an essential business under the public health order, the farmers’ market is permitted to return so long as they implement safety measures. Residents are reminded th...

Some restrictions have begun to ease as Rossmoor enters its seventh week of a Bay Area-wide shelter-in-place order. All construction projects and outdoor activities such as golf, tennis and pickleball were allowed to resume starting Monday, May 4, under an extended stay-at-home order that will last until May 31. The latest order permits landscapers...

Some ‘rough’ areas of golf course to go dormant Board approves plan to save on GRF water bill To save an estimated $80,000 on its water bill for the golf courses, the GRF Board last Thursday approved a three-phase plan to cut off water to some 11 acres of outlying areas of the courses. The last areas to be shut down are the ones that back up to hom...

r Bill Oman calls it “the world cruise that wasn’t.” Oman and Larry Crummer, longtime residents of Rossmoor, set sail from Fort Lauderdale for a round-theworld cruise of a lifetime on Jan. 4, a few days before news of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan started to trickle in – and weeks before the U.S. and other countries were hard hit by the virus. ...

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Contra Costa County Fire Protection District has announced that the weed abatement deadline is May 31, barring any late rains. In the case of wet weather returning, the deadline may be extended, said Landscape Manager Rebecca Pollon. Grass abatement is best performed when grasses are dry and brown, so Pollon said the work will begin soon so that it...

Some residents were not clear based on articles in last week’s News about when face masks are required in public. They are required when working at an essential business, visiting inside an essential business, visiting a health care provider and waiting in line or riding public transportation. They are not required when engaging in outdoor recreati...

Need a mask? Quilters deliver. See page 11A Contra Costa and five other Bay Area counties are extending the current shelter-in-place order through the end of May. Public health officers announced Monday (at press time) that a revised order was coming later in the week and would largely keep the current restrictions in place through May 31. However,...