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...

Notice is hereby given that the 56th Annual Meeting of Members of the Golden Rain Foundation of Walnut Creek will be held on Monday, May 11, at 9:30 a.m. via a Zoom webinar. To join the videoconference, click on https:// tinyurl.com/rjfusw7. The password is 992012. To join by phone, dial one of the following numbers: 669-900-6833, 346-248-7799, 253...

r Bill Oman calls it “the world cruise that wasn’t.” Oman and Larry Crummer, longtime residents of Rossmoor, set sail from Fort Lauderdale for a round-theworld cruise of a lifetime on Jan. 4, a few days before news of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan started to trickle in – and weeks before the U.S. and other countries were hard hit by the virus. ...