Two major digital enhancements for residents are set to debut next Wednesday, April 15. The new, vastly expanded and redesigned MyRossmoor.com goes live, transformed into an all-encompassing residents website. And an eagerly awaited DwellingLive portal for residents to compose and manage their guest lists becomes a reality. Some entirely new featur...

CAC fundraiser for food bank aims to hit $10k in 2026 Rossmoor’s Ceramic Arts Club is shooting for a record. At last year’s Empty Bowls fundraiser for the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano, club members raised about $9,000. The previous year’s haul was about $8,000. Can they reach five figures this year? “The first year we did it was 2016,” said...

Rossmoor resident Nancy Munson, the founder of Pickleball 4 Parkinson’s (P4P), was recently honored by CBS Bay Area with its Icon Award, which recognizes local community leaders who do outstanding service to make the Bay Area a better place. The first Icon Awards were presented in 2025, when they replaced the Jefferson Awards, which had been given ...

Joe McBride’s presentation on vegetation in Rossmoor covered a lot of ground, from history’s lessons to today’s formidable wildfire threat. McBride, a UC Berkeley professor emeritus of forestry and landscape architecture, gave an informative talk followed by a lively Q& A session on March 31 in the Fireside Room during the first of the Rossmoor...

Sustainable Rossmoor invites the community to celebrate nature and its preservation at the 10th annual Earth Day Festival, taking place Friday, April 17 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Peacock Plaza and the Fireside Room. This year’s event brings together music, art, food and handson learning to inspire a more sustainable future in Rossmoor and beyond. B...

Resident recalls brush with real ‘Marty Supreme’ When the movie “Marty Supreme” came out, Al Schwartz had to see it. It wasn’t just because of the drama’s table tennis theme. Schwartz, who’s played the sport since he was a kid, had encountered the real-life table tennis hustler behind the movie’s main character. The film centers on Marty Mauser, a ...

Planning and budgeting help with wear and tear Elevators can be an attractive lure for new residents. But like any facet of infrastructure, especially those involving transport, they age and often require service. Elevators issues have been a regular occurrence in the Security Reports in this newspaper in the past several months, often involving re...

Members also hear more from residents on Gateway proposal The Rossmoor Walnut Creek Board on Thursday seems poised to adopt a procedure for flying official flags, which includes adhering to either federal or state policy governing when flags are lowered to half-staff. These new procedures, which had their first reading before the Board last week, w...

As a young boy, Eric Howard would hike with his friends from behind Saint Mary’s College in Moraga up the hill and look out over the valley that, a few years later, would become Rossmoor. After that, he said, when Rossmoor ‒ then known as Leisure World ‒ had its big globe outside the front gates, he saw young miscreants put laundry soap in the pond...

With heat advisories in the West and tornados and blizzards in the East, many blood drives are being cancelled, yet the need for blood is going up. Help keep the supply available. Nothing replaces blood! Residents are urged to donate Tuesday, April 14 between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. in the Fireside Room. Sign up for an appointment to make a vital differe...