Board also decides to raise pay for News carriers Over the objections of a group of residents who favored a sound study before starting design work, the GRF Board on Thursday voted unanimously to hire a landscape architecture firm to design a pickleball complex near the Event Center. A second firm will conduct a sound study of how noise generated b...

CROCKETT – John Siebert was clearly in his element in the old Odd Fellows Hall building in the shadow of the massive C& H Sugar refining mill at the center of this onetime company town. Siebert was talking with various people coming to look at the scale model trains that now consume much of this sizeable structure. “This is a great way to meet ...

Aiming to build upon encouraging results from the first year, organizers of the Dementia and Diabetes Prevention Program study are gearing up for year two in Rossmoor. The program, a partnership between UC Davis and Tice Creek Fitness Center, is built upon taking preventative measures with diet and exercise. Organizers will be seeking new qualified...

With rates likely facing another costly hike for 2023, the GRF and Mutuals are exploring possible alternatives for property insurance that would avoid a deductible increase from $250,000 to $1 million. Chief Financial Officer Joel Lesser told the Finance Committee last week that many insurance renewals set to occur July 1 are seeing rate increases ...

GRF Planning Committee The GRF Planning Committee voted on June 23 to recommend pursuing study of an area just southwest of the Event Center as a prospective home for a new pickleball facility, opting for it over sites at the Buckeye Tennis Complex and the existing pickleball courts at Creekside. Included in this will be hiring a landscape architec...

Leak stopped on north end of Golf Pond At the beginning of the year, there was an ominous display on the north end of the golf course pond, near the weir and spillway. “The water would literally bubble up from the ground,” Rossmoor golf course crews in March patched a leak in the golf pond floor near the concrete spillway that is delaying the need ...

Three longtime resident advisory committee members, including two current chairs, will be stepping aside in the first wave of vacancies generated by a new GRF policy limiting how long volunteers can serve on such committees. Those chairs whose current committee terms expire at the end of June are Bill Dorband of the Finance Committee and John McDon...

An effort to make reverse mortgages available for cooperative owners in Rossmoor has a chance at success, and supporters are calling residents to action. The U.S. Senate Review Committee is working on a 2023 Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report that could require HUD to finally write guidelines for federally insured reverse mort...

Al Kaufman doesn’t know yet exactly when it will happen, but he will appreciate the planned improvements to the Woodshop in the Gateway art studio complex. It will include an expanded tool room, updated electrical and dust collection systems, a relocated entry and room for more machines, thanks to a revised layout. “We’ll be able to install some ne...

To steal from an old saying, it’s a whole new bocce ballgame in Rossmoor. That is thanks to the newly resurfaced bocce courts at Sportsmen’s Park. Work on the bocce courts began in early May, and the courts reopened shortly before Memorial Day weekend, Director of Residential Services Jeff Matheson said. The new artificial turf surface was develope...