At least for the time being, it will be difficult for most buyers of Rossmoor homes to obtain necessary mortgage financing, because GRF’s insurance limitations have prompted a moratorium on many new mortgages for home purchases in Rossmoor. And even some who pay cash may have trepidations, fearing an inability to be made whole in the event of a hug...

GRF Board Meeting By Sam Richards Staff writer After 17 speakers criticized various aspects of moving the Rossmoor Garden and/or building a new condominium complex along Terra Granada Drive, the GRF Board opted last week to defer commissioning a $20,000 study on whether either or both of those parcels were worth selling. The two areas in question a...

Current tree at Creekside to be removed The Tree of Lights, a Rossmoor staple and a symbol of the community’s kindness, empathy and generosity, is getting a new home. With nearly four decades of history within Rossmoor, the Tree of Lights will soon be near the historic Dollar House, to the left of the main entrance on the approach from a walkway co...

Rossmoor could soon be hosting a temporary driverless shuttle connecting Gateway Clubhouse and Tice Creek Fitness Center, as part of a Contra Costa Transportation Authority grant AUTONOMOUS: Federal grant paying for service from Gateway to Fitness Center program designed to help further research into the technology of driverless transit. Ann Mottol...

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 ...

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...