Both golf courses will be open for golf on Monday, May 25, for Memorial Day. Because of that, the courses will be closed to walkers. Per the new hours during the shelter- in-place order, Creekside will open at 4 p.m. for walkers. Dollar will remain closed to walkers all day. Walking during play is not permitted because of the danger from flying gol...

During the past week unsigned flyers have been illegally put into mailboxes and onto car windshields throughout Rossmoor. This document criticizes the GRF Board and staff, specifically the CEO, for not cutting the coupon by 40% immediately. Normally I wouldn’t respond to an anonymous flyer, but since it was written in a way that caused some people ...

Contra Costa County is now offering COVID-19 testing to all residents, regardless of whether they have symptoms or the means to pay for it. Contra Costa is the first Bay Area county to offer tests to anyone who wants one. Residents can make an appointment to have a test at one of eight sites, including five drive-through testing sites. There are al...

County begins to ease some sheltering rules Rossmoor celebrated Cinco de Mayo last week with the cautious reopening of outdoor sports. Golf clubs, tennis racquets, pickleball paddles and lawn bowling balls were dusted off on May 5 and bocce followed suit on Monday. The reopening of the five outdoor sports comes with new rules and regulations about ...

Work to completely upgrade the Hillside Clubhouse restrooms could start as early as this week. The project has been on hold since March as new construction was halted under a county public health order to halt the spread of the deadly coronavirus. “The contractor has the permit and is completing his first round of submittals,” said Resident Service...

Anne-Marie Jensen has stopped buying lipstick when she’s bored. Ever since the COVID-19 shelterin- place shuttered Rossmoor and kept people indoors as much as possible, this retired Oakland firefighter has new hobby: plants. “I’ve kind of gone off the deep end,” she said. “In the past two months I’ve bought 28 plants, everything from vegetables to ...

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More Rossmoor Scenes Strict new safety measures will be in place Friday when the Rossmoor Farmers Market opens for the season from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Gateway parking lot. Deemed an essential business under the public health order, the farmers’ market is permitted to return so long as they implement safety measures. Residents are reminded th...

Some restrictions have begun to ease as Rossmoor enters its seventh week of a Bay Area-wide shelter-in-place order. All construction projects and outdoor activities such as golf, tennis and pickleball were allowed to resume starting Monday, May 4, under an extended stay-at-home order that will last until May 31. The latest order permits landscapers...

Some ‘rough’ areas of golf course to go dormant Board approves plan to save on GRF water bill To save an estimated $80,000 on its water bill for the golf courses, the GRF Board last Thursday approved a three-phase plan to cut off water to some 11 acres of outlying areas of the courses. The last areas to be shut down are the ones that back up to hom...