By Rod Williams Club correspondent The LGBTQ+ Alliance is presenting a third week of events in celebration of Pride Month 2022. Attendance is up at this year’s events, and participants are enjoying a wide variety of activities, both in person and online. On Thursday, June 16, at 7 p.m., the Alliance will present the second annual Pride Poetry Slam....

New charging stations coming,eateries open Rossmoor Shopping Center has been a beehive of activity, beyond the typical flow of customers. Shoppers are likely to see construction crews and equipment around the center and workers getting new businesses ready to open. Two adjacent businesses opened on June 1 – Yogurt Spot and Taqueria El Jardin, the l...

The imminent return of Party in the Plaza is further evidence that pre-pandemic Rossmoor life is returning in slow but steady increments. Karen Marguth will perform at “Party on the Plaza” on Friday, June 10. Absent from Rossmoor since summer 2019, this short series of Friday night concerts in June at Gateway’s Peacock Plaza is being buoyed by incr...

Live streaming, video on demand, high definition and closed captioning have all come to Rossmoor Television. Smartphones, tablets and streaming devices can now view the station’s programming in high definition. Residents also can view a majority of Rossmoor TV shows on demand, whenever they want to watch, and with closed captioning. It’s a giant le...

Dr. Lonnie Bristow said he was “thunderstruck” to be told he has been named this year’s recipient of the Pride in the Profession Award from the American Medical Association Foundation Board of Directors. Lonnie Bristow News photo by Dan Rosenstrauch Bristow, a Rossmoor resident for the past 30 years, said he will make the trip to Chicago for the Sa...

The Contra Costa County Fire Protection District has been awarded a $3.1 million wildfire prevention grant that was enthusiastically supported by GRF officials for its potential to help protect Rossmoor. The grant from Cal Fire will go toward creating a shaded fuel break in the Lafayette and Walnut Creek region that “will significantly reduce the t...

AARP members can take the National Hearing Test for free. The National Hearing Test is an accurate, validated hearing screening test, developed with funding from the National Institutes of Health. This confidential screening is taken over a telephone to help you determine if you need a complete hearing evaluation. It has no financial connection wit...

A May 25 story on page 4A incorrectly reported that Rossmoor’s 30 electric- vehicle chargers are not “Level 2” chargers. They in fact are Level 2 chargers, but they are not “superchargers.”

PG& E crews work on repairing a gas distribution line leak in the 2200 block of Tice Creek Drive on Memorial Day. PG& E responded after it was notified of a gas odor in the area, according to a company spokesperson. Work on the repair continued throughout the next day. Photo by Bill Reiley

Residents hold signs against racially and politically motivated hate and gun violence during a silent vigil May 28 on Golden Rain Road between Rossmoor Parkway and Tice Creek Drive. The vigil was co-sponsored by Rossmoor Advocates for Diversity (RAD), Black Lives Matter, Democrats of Rossmoor and the Diversity Consciousness Committee of the Interfa...