After being told the work will make affected manors significantly safer, the First Mutual Board of Directors voted Jan. 28 to spend $160,000 on 53 new electrical subpanels within those residences. Subpanels extend the wiring for multiple branch circuits to a specific area of a home, and they are found in bedrooms in these First Mutual residences. D...

The GRF Board’s decision to end or continue the indoor facilities shutdown was set to occur after the press deadline. Read about the decision online at www.rossmoor.com/ breaking-news

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for Dollar in coming years include installation of an elevator to expand access to the building’s Continued on page 19A Outdated wallpap...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...

Lane closures are underway at the front gate 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 necessitate laneby- lane closures in and out of Rossmoor, will take a couple of weeks. Work began on Monday, Feb. 7. Upgrades at the front gate will include came...

A Trash Tip in the Jan. 26 of recyclable paper. This mailissue said that all mailers must er can go in the blue carts. All go in landfill, but the mailer in mailers with bubble-lined padthe forefront of the photo was ding go in landfill, of a new Amazon mailer made

By News staff There will be limited bus service on Monday, Feb. 21, for the Presidents Day holiday. Downtown service will be offered at 10 a.m., Noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. To schedule a ride on Feb. 21, call Dial-A-Bus at 1-925-- 988-7676 on Feb. 20 during regular business hours.

By News staff Residents have begun receiving the new Rossmoor phone book, which begs the question as to what should be done with the old phone book. Most of the phone book can be recycled in the blue bin. Just tear off the shiny front and back cover, as well as the first inset page and book’s spine, and toss those in landfill. The remaining inside ...

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...