GRF portion will be 1.45% higher than last year The GRF Board on Sept. 28 unanimously approved a $26,813,025 operating budget for 2024, about 5% higher than this year but which includes a 1.45% coupon increase for 2024. That means the 2024 GRF portion of the coupon, which applies to all homeowners, will be $334.69 a month, up from $329.82 this year...

Popular event becomes broader and more colorful With the third annual Diversity Festival coming Tuesday, Oct. 10 to the Event Center, its growing prominence shows the reach of diversity and inclusion efforts in this community. The festival, which follows August’s well-received Diversity Film Festival, is in a sense a celebration of the daily work p...

Printing options lessen as press for paper closes The schedule for moving the Rossmoor News to a primarily online mode needs to accelerate, its managing editor said last week, reflecting concerns that one day relatively soon there may not be any presses left that can produce the 7,300 copies of the paper printed each week. NEWS: New printer found b...

Neighbors for Safer Streets will host an information table at the Farmers Market on Friday, Oct. 6, from 9:30 a.m. to noon. Learn about the organization, its goal, programs, and how to get involved. Neighbors for Safer Streets began in June 2022 after a trio of tragic accidents occurred on Tice Creek Drive, all involving Rossmoor residents – both d...

The End of Life Concerns Club (EOLC) will present a workshop on how to prepare an ethical will on Monday, Oct. 16, at 1 p.m. in the Club Room at Creekside. As a regular will disposes of personal property, an ethical will bequeaths the lessons a person has learned in their life, including the values that have guided them. An ethical will is differen...

A headline on the front page of the Sept. 27 News about the Rossmoor Diner closing incorrectly reported when the restaurant had to vacate the property. The correct date is Oct. 13. The final day of operation is planned for Oct. 8.

Dollar Ranch Golf Course will close to walkers on Monday, Oct. 9, starting at noon, because of a golf tournament. Walkers can still walk all day on the Creekside Course and until noon on the Dollar Ranch Course. For information, residents can call the Golf Shop at 1-925-988-7861.

Owner given notice to vacate by Oct. 8 Rossmoor Diner, a staple of the community for 35 years, will be closing its doors. Its final day of operation is planned for Sunday, Oct. 8. Grace Soan, owner of the diner since January 2000, said Rossmoor Shopping Center ownership gave her a 30-day notice earlier this month to vacate. Soan said the diner, whi...

By Mike Wood Staff writer Bertha Reilly likened trip to San Francisco in the 1960s Bertha Reilly wants to assure her Rossmoor friends. She traveled to the Burning Man gathering, and she fared just fine. “It was such a fantastic experience,” she said. The Burning Man Project website describes the concept as a “global ecosystem of artists, makers and...

Ashow of hands at a falls-prevention symposium at the Event Center last week revealed that perhaps 40% of those in attendance had suffered a significant fall with the past year. A short time later, a woman in the audience asked aloud why there weren’t more people at this event, sponsored by the Rossmoor Counseling Center. Approximately 125 people w...