Starting Sept. 8, Creekside not available to walk until 6 p.m. Walkers will still be allowed on the Creekside Golf Course cart paths during late afternoons, but for two hours less a day. In a compromise, the GRF Board last Thursday decided to modify its 4-month-old policy that closed the ninehole Creekside course early to let residents walk the pat...

Kaiser Permanente will provide flu vaccinations free-ofcharge to all Kaiser Permanente members and non-members at Rossmoor this year. To maintain social distancing, it will offer an outdoor walk-up flu vaccine clinic on Tuesday, Sept. 8 and Thursday, Sept. 10 in the Gateway parking lot. Residents with last names starting with A through K can get th...

After an interlude, the wild animals that some describe as rototillers on four legs have returned to Rossmoor in their search for food. An employee in the Mutual Operations Division confirmed Aug. 25 that Rossmoor had caught one of the feral pigs after residents of Mutual 61 asked for help abating the havoc the creatures are wreaking on their lawns...

The Diversity Consciousness of Interfaith Council has been working since its inception to celebrate and support the cultural and racial diversity that exists in Rossmoor. The committee has now gone the next step in promoting a more inclusive community via two projects. These two projects are Realtor outreach and Rossmoor website enhancement. The Re...

The Big Questions Forum will meet on Monday, Sept. 21, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on Zoom. The Big Question of 2020 is: What is the relationship between science and religion in today’s world? The speaker is Dr. Nazeer Ahmed. He holds a doctorate from Cornell University and a master’s degree in space sciences from Caltech. He is a former NASA scientist and...

Permits have been granted, bids submitted Another hurdle has been cleared in the multi-year effort to restore sections of Tice Creek as it meanders through Rossmoor. The required government permits have now been issued. Three construction bids were submitted earlier this month. A consultant’s recommendation on the bids is pending. The creek has bee...

Rossmoor resident Patricia Donahue said she suffered 15 puncture wounds to her arm and leg during a rare attack by a racoon while on an early morning walk Aug. 18. Donahue had just left her home on the 2200 block of Pine Knoll Drive around 5:45 a.m. when her dog, a Tibetan terrier, peered into a sewer drain. After pulling the dog away, she said, a ...

2020 Election If you’re one of the 160,000 registered voters in Contra Costa County who doesn’t vote by mail, don’t be surprised when an official mail-in-ballot for the Nov. 3 election arrives in your mailbox. D ue to health concerns about COVID-19, every registered voter in the state will get a postage-paid mail-in ballot for the November election...

Aweek of scorching temperatures and lightning strikes brought excessive heat warnings, rotating blackouts, wildfires and smoke into the Bay Area, creating even more anxiety in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Triple-digit temperatures prompted PG& E to announce the possibility of rotating power outages from 3 to 10 p.m. in Contra Costa C...

The News will have early deadlines for the Sept. 9 issue because of the Labor Day holiday. All articles for that issue are due no later than Wednesday, Sept. 2, at noon. All ads, obits and letters to the editor are due no later than Wednesday, Sept. 2, at 3 p.m. No extended deadlines can be granted. The News and most other Golden Rain Foundation em...