Sighting is reminder to be careful Several residents recently have sent photos to the News of coyotes lurking around Dollar Ranch Golf Course. Two residents even captured photos of a coyote after it had killed a deer. Sightings such as this are a reminder that residents need to be mindful of wildlife in Rossmoor. Coyote sightings most often occur i...

Sustainable Rossmoor’s Trash Talk (Recycling) Committee resumes its in-person meetings on Wednesday, July 21, at 10 a.m. in Multipurpose Room 3 at Gateway. The meeting is open to everyone. Participants will resume brainstorming solutions to such problems as how to make trash enclosures more user-friendly and what to do about neighbors who don’t sor...

The Golden Rain Foundation has contracted with a team of consultants led by ELS Architecture and Urban Design to create a long-term capital improvement plan to help prioritize community facility and infrastructure improvement projects for the next 10 years. The first steps in the process have involved gathering information from the residents of Ros...

Unsung hero Fran Gibson will never forget the Oakland Hills fire in October 1991 that destroyed thousands of houses and trapped and killed 25 people, and how close she came to being one of them. “I heard the rotors on the helicopter and someone yelling, ‘Evacuate! Evacuate!’ I knew it was time when the palm trees across the street started exploding...

A massive firefighting effort was launched after a hillside behind Rockledge Lane, Entry 8, caught fire June 19 at about 8:20 a.m. The fire burned about one acre and was very visible in Rossmoor. Residents received periodic Nixle alerts about the status of firefighting efforts. The fire started about halfway up a steep, weed-covered hillside and sp...

Consultants detail plan for Board After learning that the best place in Rossmoor for a $10 million, 3,000-squarefoot water reclamation plant is at the gateway to the community, GRF Board members had questions about location, cost and odor. This first in-person meeting of the GRF Board in 15 months on June 24 brought smiles from directors, but it wa...

The recent reopening guidelines that allow fully vaccinated Californians to drop their masks while indoors has been met with reservations by some residents who are still concerned about COVID-19. In particular, several residents have asked if they can require a repair or general contractor to wear a mask when entering their home. State health offic...

The dominoes are all fal l ing in place for Ro s smo o r Mut u a l Board Services Coordinator Kelly Maki. She will leave behind the San Francisco Bay Area and its 7.1 million people to move to a log cabin on eight acres in the woods in the Medford, Oregon, metropolitan area, population 208,545. Her last day on the job is June 30. “It’s for a better...

In her first six days on the job, Christine Conti attended board meetings for five Mutuals. That’s in addition to handling requests from directors and other residents. Conti started her job as a Mutual boards services coordinator on June 1. She brings to Rossmoor years of property management work with homeowner associations (HOAs). She’s also been ...

GRF Board of Directors and its committee meetings return to in-person at their scheduled locations. The decision to resume in-person meetings was made after California reopened businesses and dropped many COVID-related restrictions on June 15. Because attendance was high during the pandemic for the Board meetings on Zoom, the directors have decided...