Mary Wheeler leads Bay Area Studio Artists With the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop, a somber Ruth Bader Ginsburg gazes back at viewers through the framed portrait. The late Supreme Court justice is wearing one of her iconic lace collars in the composite painting, except this one is overlayed with a black-andwhite image of suffragettes marching aro...

Not everyone is wild about calculating the taxes they may or may not owe to the government. They may not be handy with a computer, for one thing. Or can’t afford to pay a tax consultant. And may have no way to get their tax documents to and from a tax preparer. There is free help available. The IRS offers Free File. AARP Foundation offers the free ...

Second shots not affected; Kaiser clinic still planned John Muir Health learned late last week that it would have to cancel plans for an expanded vaccination clinic in Rossmoor because of limited vaccine supplies that have been an issue statewide. John Muir Health (JMH) officials said that any residents who received a first dose at the Event Center...

Black History Month Famed pilots influenced Conway Jones’ future The newly minted 25-cent piece depicts a Black pilot cinching his helmet strap in preparation for doing battle overseas as two World War II bombers soar overhead. The commemorative coin honors the Tuskegee Airmen, who broke racial barriers 80 years ago when they started training as th...

Brendan Kelley has only been Rossmoor TV Channel 28’s studio supervisor for a few weeks, but he’s already quite familiar with Rossmoor. He’s been on the scene on a part-time, oncall basis for about six years, working on various Channel 28 productions. That time, he said, has given him a wide-ranging look at a community that was somewhat mysterious ...

Veteran journalist Sam Richards, whose newspaper career spans four decades, has joined the staff of the Rossmoor News as its new editor/ writer. Richards’ byline is already familiar to many News readers, from his time as a temporary reporter with the paper in 2019. “Several residents asked where Sam was after his temporary stint with the newspaper ...

JMH expands its clinic; Kaiser will vaccinate 75 and older After last week’s successful initial rollout, John Muir Health is expanding its COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Rossmoor. Next week, the clinic will begin vaccinating residents 65 years and older who are members of John Muir Health or non-Kaiser plans. Kaiser Permanente’s vaccination clinic ...

Former A’s announcer Dick Callahan dies unexpectedly Rossmoor resident Dick Callahan, a longtime public address announcer for Bay Area sports teams, died early on the morning of Jan. 29. He was 80. “He had been receiving treatment for a heart issue, and his death was unexpected,” said Katie Callahan Cisco, one of his three daughters. The man with t...

The renovation and expansion of the Creekside pickleball courts will begin with the hiring of a landscape architect and acoustics consultant to develop a design that will address the needs of players and concerns of nearby residents, Director of Resident Services Jeff Matheson said. The GRF Board has budgeted up to $300,000 for the project, which i...

Upon meeting Alexander Tetelbaum for the first time, nothing seems out of the ordinary. He’s a genial fellow who’s happy to make small talk about the weather or describe what life was like in his homeland. But if the conversation turns to technology, it quickly becomes apparent that one is in the presence of a higher mental power. The 72-year-old R...