Policy Committee The political columns in the Rossmoor News, which are currently on hiatus, sparked lengthy discussion at the Feb. 13 Policy Committee meeting and likely will face some changes when they are reinstated. Nearly two dozen residents packed the Board Room at Gateway to speak during the residents’ forum, many citing the importance of opi...

INSIDETHENEWS Section A Arts and Leisure........... 18-29A Classified....................... 31-38A Residents’ photos.............. 24A Main News...................... 1-19A Movies................................ 26A Section B Bridge & Games............... 3-4B Excursions.................... 9B, 11B Health................................ 7-8B O...

The Computer Club of Rossmoor wants to hear from the techies out there who like exploring new technologies, solving problems and helping people. The club’s technical director, Bill Hammond, says, “Spend a couple of hours each week solving problems, making new friends, helping members and enjoying hero status from some grateful residents.” House cal...

Rossmoor EPO tip: The American Red Cross’ pub-lic reunification tool, “Safe and Well,” established after Hurricane Katrina, is being overhauled and not available at this time. Facebook’s in-novative free “Safety Check” is an excellent alternative so Rossmoor residents can easily reunify with family and friends and register their post-disaster statu...

New classes generating interest on heels of an active month Ja nua r y pr ovided a promising start to the new year for Tice Creek Fitness Center as more Rossmoor residents grow comfortable with indoor activities. While storms raged outside for much of the month, the center was a beehive of activity. In the continued emergence from the COVID-19 pand...

A new pickleball facility and solar arrays near the Event Center will share the same space but will move forward separately because of cost and solar tax credit requirements. The Planning Committee learned at Thursday’s meeting that the solar array panels could not serve as a roof for a new pickleball facility unless they were not connected to the ...

Erlan Bliss heard about it in an email a few days before the world learned on Dec. 13 that scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory had achieved, however briefly, a long-sought breakthrough – fusion ignition, which is hoped to one day provide virtually endless clean energy, improve national defense and, perhaps, contribute to other scie...

Residents had the chance to hear from several of Rossmoor Shopping Center’s newest tenants during an open house Thursday at the Event Center. This was the first such annual meet-up inside the Rossmoor gate since before the pandemic. Much has changed since then at the center, where the second phase of its extensive redevelopment has produced an arra...

Civility Task Force The GRF Civility Task Force, its six-month mission officially complete, will now submit to the full GRF Board a 38-page report with several recommendations. Those include creating a PowerPoint presentation about civility that can be shown to clubs and other Rossmoor groups; creating a “community pledge of civility” for Rossmoor ...

The Rossmoor News has early deadlines this week for the Feb. 22 paper because of the Presidents’ Day holiday. The deadline for all columns was Monday, Feb. 13 and for club trip, religion and movie articles was Tuesday, Feb. 14. All other club and organization articles are due by Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 10 a.m. All ads, obituaries and letters to the e...