A new pickleball facility and solar arrays near the Event Center will share the same space but will move forward separately because of cost and solar tax credit requirements. The Planning Committee learned at Thursday’s meeting that the solar array panels could not serve as a roof for a new pickleball facility unless they were not connected to the ...

Erlan Bliss heard about it in an email a few days before the world learned on Dec. 13 that scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory had achieved, however briefly, a long-sought breakthrough – fusion ignition, which is hoped to one day provide virtually endless clean energy, improve national defense and, perhaps, contribute to other scie...

Residents had the chance to hear from several of Rossmoor Shopping Center’s newest tenants during an open house Thursday at the Event Center. This was the first such annual meet-up inside the Rossmoor gate since before the pandemic. Much has changed since then at the center, where the second phase of its extensive redevelopment has produced an arra...

Civility Task Force The GRF Civility Task Force, its six-month mission officially complete, will now submit to the full GRF Board a 38-page report with several recommendations. Those include creating a PowerPoint presentation about civility that can be shown to clubs and other Rossmoor groups; creating a “community pledge of civility” for Rossmoor ...

The Rossmoor News has early deadlines this week for the Feb. 22 paper because of the Presidents’ Day holiday. The deadline for all columns was Monday, Feb. 13 and for club trip, religion and movie articles was Tuesday, Feb. 14. All other club and organization articles are due by Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 10 a.m. All ads, obituaries and letters to the e...

A neighborhood meeting will be held Thursday, Feb. 16, at 6 p.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church to discuss the Hope Village tiny homes project. The project calls for six affordable housing units on church grounds that are each approximately 270 square feet in size. According to the city of Walnut Creek, the supportive housing project qualifies for st...

In-person tax service back, sign-ups very popular for appointments Joanne Genet was standing in line in front of Hillside Clubhouse on Thursday, a chilly morning, with perhaps 60 people ahead of her. The wait, and the cold, were well worth it to Genet to sign up to have her taxes done at no cost through the AARP Foundation Tax-Aide Program. “This i...

It would cost more but payouts would be faster The GRF Finance Committee on Jan. 24 heard about a different kind of earthquake insurance that, if adopted, could streamline and simplify the claim process in an era when fewer and fewer companies are providing earthquake coverage at all. Representatives of the Arthur J. Gallagher and Co., the insuranc...

The Rossmoor lockers program with the Contra Costa County Library has been temporarily halted while software and hardware issues are addressed. The self-service program, which began in November 2021, has allowed residents to receive or turn in books from the Contra Costa County Library without having to travel to the downtown Walnut Creek facility ...

Rae James’ amazing sense of curiosity has taken her through twists and turns that many people just dream about. It makes perfect sense it would lead to success as a mystery writer. Along the way, she made history as Los Angeles’ first female deputy mayor, had a distinguished career in public policy, and made a difference working as a legislative an...