Theft and trespassing incidents recorded by Securitas were down considerably in 2023 from recent years, according to a report by Public Safety. Thefts reported to Securitas totaled 49, down from 79 in 2022 and 121 in 2021. Trespassing incidents numbered seven last year, compared with 11 in 2022 and 23 in 2021. Public Safety Manager Tom Cashion cred...

By Mike Wood Staff writer Hearing the name “Bling Fling” can put a smile on anyone’s face. Learning what the annual fundraiser in Rossmoor accomplishes makes that smile even wider. Jane Viator came up with the zippy name in 2017, when she launched efforts here to collect unwanted but wearable jewelry, to be sold to help at-risk youths in Contra Cos...

When Lt. Jeff Slater walked into the Event Center on Thursday for a “Coffee with a Cop” session that he organized, he was stunned to see so many residents. More than 100 residents packed the Event Center’s Donner Room and spilled out into the main hall’s corridors for “Coffee with a Cop,” an informal give-and-take with Slater, the Sector 1 commande...

You’ve probably never been to a groundbreaking event for a brush-clearing campaign, but an upcoming effort to help protect Rossmoor and adjacent parts of Walnut Creek and Lafayette has been deemed important enough to warrant such a kickoff. The Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (commonly known as ConFire), along with GRF, will host this ...

Gate arms accounted for most of the 21 gate accidents reported in 2023, two more than in 2022. Cashion also has a proposal for a traffic study, which also would be funded out of the capital budget, not through the coupon, he said. A study would be part of continued efforts to curb vehicle accidents, which were slightly up in 2023. Injury accidents ...

The ManKind Project, a nonprofit training and education organization offering personal development programs for men, is looking to start a club in Rossmoor. Completion of The New Warrior Training Adventure (NWTA) is not required, but some knowledge of ManKind Project tenets is helpful, and uninitiated men are welcome to attend. Residents are invite...

The GRF Planning Committee on Thursday voted to recommend that the full GRF Board spend $20,000 on a study of the potential sale or development of two Rossmoor parcels – one of them the Rossmoor Garden Club’s current garden plot. If the GRF Board follows this recommendation, the Walnut Creek-based firm LCA Architects (Loving and Campos) will now do...

STAFF SPOTLIGHT CUSTODIAL SERVICES & AUDIO/VISUAL Rossmoor is a busy place, and somebody’s got to set up all those events and room rentals – and tear them down and clean up after them. (And clean up after everyone else, too.) Enter Rossmoor’s Custodial Services/Audio Visual Department and its 15 workers, who, by 2022 numbers, do more than 2,000...

An October data breach that has potentially impacted millions of Comcast customers has some Rossmoorians concerned about the safety of their personal information. What Comcast described as a “data security incident” has prompted the cable, phone and internet provider to require its customers to change the password to their online Comcast account. A...

Seeking a balance between allowing Rossmoor residents to express themselves freely and publicly, and to do so safely and without creating discord, members of the GRF Policy Committee will discuss over the next three weeks prospective updates to GRF’s “demonstration policy” governing protests within Rossmoor’s confines. The Policy Committee discusse...