Smoky air from wildfires prompted the closure of the Hillside and Dollar swimming pools on 13 days during August through October. And on Sept. 9, the air was so thick with smoke that Kaiser Permanente called off its outdoor flu clinic at Gateway after three hours when people started getting sick. Because of the growing concerns around the health im...

No-shows at Dollar and Hillside pools have continued from the summer into fall, even as some residents have trouble finding a desirable reservation time for the two outdoor pools. As many as 200 swimmers were no-shows in a given week during the summer. And while those numbers slipped to just over 40 per week in late September, they still leave resi...

When resident Leanne Hamaji saw recent articles about flat-walking areas near Rossmoor, inspiration struck. An avid walker, Hamaji has discovered a few spots in Rossmoor where she has carved out her own flat-walking paths, and now she is sharing them with her neighbors. We will feature all three over the next few weeks. The first is a flat walking ...

An editorial error in the CEO’s Report (Oct. 28) listed two sets of county COVID metrics. The correct numbers were 3.3% positivity rate and 7 daily case rate per hundred thousand residents as of Oct. 27, when Contra Costa moved to the orange tier. The directions for the recipe for apple chips on Page 25A of the Oct. 21 edition omitted that the oven...

The Rossmoor News will have very early deadlines for the Dec. 2 issue because of Thanksgiving. All columns, club trip listings and religion articles are due Monday, Nov. 23, by noon. All other club and organization articles are due Tuesday, Nov. 24, by noon. All ads and letters to the editor must be turned in by Tuesday, Nov. 24, at 3 p.m. No deadl...

Residents staying mobile with outdoor sports, walking After months of being largely housebound because of the global pandemic, smoky air and heat waves, Rossmoor residents are flying the coop and getting active again. Outdoor sports, virtual exercise classes and just walking around Rossmoor are popular. And the limited opening of the Fitness Center...

Kindness rocks are mailed all over the world Zoe Wolfus, 16, was “a loving little girl who got along with everyone,” said her grandmother, Rossmoor resident Shirley Pierce. Tragically, the teen – who lived in Shrewsbury, Mass., with her parents and younger brother Isaac – took her own life Aug. 27, leaving her family devastated. “She was my angel, ...

Residents who want to be included in the Rossmoor private telephone directory for 2020-2021 will find the yellow sign-up card in today’s issue of the News. The card is attached to a flier inserted in the paper. Residents must fill out a listing card each year to be included in the directory. Listings are not carried over from the previous year. Eve...

Brent Mulanax moving into a part-time role Longtime golf pro Brent Mulanax was ready to call it a career earlier this year. Then the coronavirus pandemic struck, and a taste of life away from the game he’s loved all his life made him reconsider. “What I found during the initial COVID stay at home, it was not exactly what I thought it would be, just...

Gov. Newsom details plan for vaccines As of press time, Contra Costa had just learned it had reached the COVID-19 benchmarks needed to move into the orange tier, which allows them to reopen more businesses and increase capacities at others. To move to orange, for two straight weeks, Contra Costa had to have less than 4 new COVID cases per 100,000 r...