Walnut Creek police have made an arrest amid an investigation into burglaries within Rossmoor. One suspect was arrested May 24 in connection with Rossmoor burglaries, Walnut Creek police Lt. Bruce Jower told the News. Police were still seeking one other suspect at press time, Jower said. Items were recovered at the time of the arrest that belonged ...

Weekly Alcoholics Anonymous meditation and discussion meetings are held three times a week: Saturdays from 5 to 6 p.m. in Creekside’s Bunker Room; Mondays from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Vista Room at Hillside; and Wednesdays from 7 to 8 p.m. in Multipurpose Room 1 at Gateway and on Zoom. The Zoom ID is 441 759 4186 (no password). For more information, go ...

Topics include traffic safety, fire mitigation During the most recent GRF Virtual Town Hall, General Manager Jeff Matheson and Public Safety Manager Tom Cashion touched on multiple efforts to make Rossmoor safer – such as fire mitigation, emergency preparedness and response, traffic safety and more. Cashion detailed the importance of projects such ...

Gerry Priebat was a little sentimental about his headshot no longer gracing the east wall of the GRF Board Room at Gateway. It was nothing personal against Priebat; the formal portraits of he and 45 other GRF Board presidents, dating from May 1965, were also removed a couple of weeks ago. But just the same … “It’s kind of sad, but I understand why ...

Rounds played, Golf Shop sales up over 2023 In May 2023, Rossmoor’s golf operation was working its way back from torrential rains and resulting landslides that kept players off the two courses for more than two months and took a giant divot out of greens fees and other golf-related income. A year later, golf revenues over the first four months of t...

It was evident to vendors at Rossmoor’s first Farmers’ Market of the year how knowledgeable patrons are. That’s what Arnulfo Mendoza realized from his booth along a stretch of Gateway’s parking lot. Among a handful of first-time vendors to this Farmers’ Market, he was representing Alex’s Family Bee Farm. Based in San Leandro, it’s run by Alex Perez...

Meeting to be held June 11 in Fairway What needs to come after a permanent ceasefire in Gaza? Paul Larudee will be the speaker for the Voices for Justice in Palestine’s monthly program on Tuesday, June 11, at 4 p.m. in the Fairway Room at Creekside Clubhouse. Larudee is a former Ford Foundation project supervisor and Fulbright-Hays lecturer in Leba...

“Did you get my message?” Pleasant Hill resident Frank Nelson recently wrote the Rossmoor Scholarship Foundation (RSF) website. When she came across Nelson’s message, RSF President Shirley Wiegand asked Treasurer Bob Daines, “Do you know anything about this?” Daines said he did have a check from Nelson, noting that it was given in honor of a mentor...

The Rossmoor Al-Anon support group meets on Tuesdays from 10 to 11 a.m. in Multipurpose Room 1 at the Gateway Complex. This mutual support group is for anyone troubled by someone's drinking. By sharing common experiences and applying the Al-Anon principles, family and friends of alcoholics can bring positive changes to their individual situati...

Lack of 100% coverage affects home loans Tony Conte described a conversation he had recently with someone looking to sell a Rossmoor manor for his mother. The seller, Conte said, was “a very savvy guy and knew all about the insurance issues” that have been plaguing communities like Rossmoor all over the U.S. The son and his wife are now living in t...