Gate arms accounted for most of the 21 gate accidents reported in 2023, two more than in 2022. Cashion also has a proposal for a traffic study, which also would be funded out of the capital budget, not through the coupon, he said. A study would be part of continued efforts to curb vehicle accidents, which were slightly up in 2023. Injury accidents ...

You’ve probably never been to a groundbreaking event for a brush-clearing campaign, but an upcoming effort to help protect Rossmoor and adjacent parts of Walnut Creek and Lafayette has been deemed important enough to warrant such a kickoff. The Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (commonly known as ConFire), along with GRF, will host this ...

The ManKind Project, a nonprofit training and education organization offering personal development programs for men, is looking to start a club in Rossmoor. Completion of The New Warrior Training Adventure (NWTA) is not required, but some knowledge of ManKind Project tenets is helpful, and uninitiated men are welcome to attend. Residents are invite...

The GRF Planning Committee on Thursday voted to recommend that the full GRF Board spend $20,000 on a study of the potential sale or development of two Rossmoor parcels – one of them the Rossmoor Garden Club’s current garden plot. If the GRF Board follows this recommendation, the Walnut Creek-based firm LCA Architects (Loving and Campos) will now do...

STAFF SPOTLIGHT CUSTODIAL SERVICES & AUDIO/VISUAL Rossmoor is a busy place, and somebody’s got to set up all those events and room rentals – and tear them down and clean up after them. (And clean up after everyone else, too.) Enter Rossmoor’s Custodial Services/Audio Visual Department and its 15 workers, who, by 2022 numbers, do more than 2,000...

An October data breach that has potentially impacted millions of Comcast customers has some Rossmoorians concerned about the safety of their personal information. What Comcast described as a “data security incident” has prompted the cable, phone and internet provider to require its customers to change the password to their online Comcast account. A...

Seeking a balance between allowing Rossmoor residents to express themselves freely and publicly, and to do so safely and without creating discord, members of the GRF Policy Committee will discuss over the next three weeks prospective updates to GRF’s “demonstration policy” governing protests within Rossmoor’s confines. The Policy Committee discusse...

they have already done so. Given that every Rossmoor resident is a Comcast customer, to some degree, it’s worthy of attention. Details of the breach became public in December, when Comcast said it had learned more about the extent of unauthorized activity, which happened between Oct. 16 and Oct. 19 and impacted Citrix, a software provider used by C...

Members of the Rossmoor Lesbian Social Club (RLSC) outdid themselves when 100% of those who registered for the Dec. 28 blood drive showed up and donated blood. This showing outstripped the Red Cross statistics indicating that a little more than half the donors who register actually appear to donate blood at a drive. This huge outpouring to donate b...

Classes based on personality studies a big hit When Ros Carol began presenting personality classes in Rossmoor this past May, she had no idea how popular they would become. These Myers-Briggs Type Indicator classes involve 30 residents who each take a personality test online ahead of the session. Sponsored by Rossmoor Recreation, they are a popular...