The Acalanes Union High School District Governing Board will make a provisional appointment to fill the seat vacated by Kristin Connelly, who is resigning effective Friday, June 30 to focus on her responsibilities as Contra Costa County’s clerk-recorder and registrar of voters. The board will interview eligible applicants at a public special board ...

The Mystery Book Club meeting scheduled for Monday, July 3 has been moved to July 17. Meetings are normally held on the first Monday of each month at 7 p.m. in Multipurpose Room 1 at the Gateway Complex. Each month club members meet to discuss works by a previously chosen author. Club members may suggest mystery writers to read for future meetings.

The AARP Smart Driver Course is offered in Rossmoor to help residents refresh skills and learn the latest driving laws. Both classes are in Multipurpose Room 3 at Gateway. After taking the course, residents may be eligible to receive a discount on their car insurance rate. (Residents should check with insurance carrier.) The class is also available...

Donner, longtime director, to retire Aug. 1 Jeroen Wright already had a pretty good feel for Rossmoor when he got here, starting June 12 as GRF’s new director of Mutual Operations. He came over from BrightView Landscape Services, which does substantial contracting work with GRF. Wright was a vice president and senior branch manager there and had al...

New theater lighting ‘opens world of possibilities’ By David Scholz Staff writer Call it a riddle in the theater – what shines on stage but never says a word? Answer – stage lighting. Its presence at the Performing Arts Studio has taken a giant leap forward with a $20,000 upgrade. Enhancement of the stage lighting capabilities was more than three y...

The apparent discharge of a firearm through a Terra Granada Drive manor’s window in the early morning hours of June 12 led to the arrest of a male nonresident guest, but no criminal charges will be filed. Walnut Creek police responded to a 3:41 a.m. call that day to the 3100 block of Terra Granada Drive. A 63-year-old man was arrested on suspicion ...

Al Kaufman said he gets one or two calls each day from people asking when the Woodshop will reopen. And most, he said, aren’t even from people who use the tools and machines there. “We do a lot of knife sharpening, furniture repair … we call it the ‘community work,’” said Kaufman, one of 32 “supervisors” who watch over operations in the Woodshop. “...

The National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) will host an end-of-year luncheon Wednesday, June 28, at 10:30 a.m. in the Club Room at Creekside, when the 2023 recipients of its NCJW Women’s Re-Entry Scholarship Program will be honored. The new 2023-2025 NCJW board will be installed, and the recipient of the Edith Goodman Award will be presented. Raff...

A front page story June 14 about the former Bank of America building off Rossmoor Parkway incorrectly reported that the old bank building directly abuts the GRF-owned former John Muir medical offices building. There is another office building between the old BofA and the GRF structure (both now vacant). nnn The price in the June 14 Club Trips listi...

The former Bank of America building at the corner of Rossmoor Parkway and Tice Valley Boulevard, empty since July 2020, could soon be rebuilt into a two-story mixed commercial building, with the Walnut Creek City Council starting the process to amend the city’s general plan to allow such a development. Eric Erickson, a senior vice president with Co...