Staff Spotlight Staff makes move to the digital age look easy Though it’s been a familiar, treasured staple for more than three decades, Rossmoor Television is in a new era. Branded for years as Channel 28, the operation has blossomed in recent months into much more than a Comcast channel. Its programming can be viewed on smartphones and tablets vi...

Shopping center almost ready with stations It has been a longer wait than initially anticipated, but electric vehicle owners soon should be able to get quite a charge from a new charging station at Rossmoor Shopping Center. Electrify America EV chargers are expected to go live on Wednesday, Dec. 7, according is expected to open in spring 2023, acco...

It appears that all options for bringing more water to Rossmoor, in whatever form is most practical, are still on the table after an Oct. 26 town hall forum in Lafayette. And none of them is likely to yield quick results. Given the high cost of delivering recycled water to Rossmoor and surrounding areas, other options – including “potable re-use” w...

Rossmoor residents gathered Nov. 11 to hear stories from veterans at this year’s Vets Town Hall marking Veterans Day. Speaking in Dollar Park under a magnificent oak that undoubtedly has lived through all of America’s wars, the vets created a safe, respectful space as residents listened. Vets’ stories ranged from a Vietnam infantry soldier who was ...

A Nov. 16 story on page A3 about Contra Costa County election results contained an error regarding the Acalanes Union High School District board race. Newly elected Jennifer Chen is not replacing Kristen Connelly on the Acalanes Union High School District Board but rather will replace Rossmoor resident Bob Hockett, who did not seek a third four-yea...

List includes maintenance projects, to go before Board The GRF Planning Committee on Nov. 10 voted to recommend the GRF Board approve a list of capital projects for 2023 that includes $600,000 in additional pickleball court funding, pedestrian access control measures for the front gate, $125,000 for tennis court resurfacing at Buckeye and $175,000 ...

Becky Smith back home after May 18 accident Becky Smith was never so glad to be home in her life. It was Friday, Nov. 3 at about 5 p.m., about 5 ½ months after she had last left her Canyonwood Court home to walk with her small dog to a nearby parklet. The days had grown much shorter now than when she was last there. “The bunny from last Easter neve...

What happens in Rossmoor – at least in a computing sense – will now stay in Las Vegas, thanks to the completion of a new “co-location” information technology facility. The computer lights started blinking in late October on Rossmoor’s long-awaited “co-location” site in the City of Lights, where GRF servers will be backed up and replicated as a sort...

Tom Cashion says it’s time to address what he calls the “Achilles’ heel” to this gated community. Rossmoor’s public safety manager sees sidewalks at the front gate as a free pathway for unauthorized individuals to enter Rossmoor on foot and by bicycle. At times, it’s believed, that has been exploited for criminal activity. Cashion sees the same wit...

Walnut Creek voters on Nov. 8 approved a half-cent sales tax and returned incumbents to both the Walnut Creek City Council and the Walnut Creek School District. Walnut Creek Measure O (sales tax) With a 64.65% “yes” vote based on Election Night returns, Walnut Creek voters approved Measure O, a half-cent sales tax to “maintain and enhance” various ...