Insurance carriers are not expected to use new Cal Fire maps to set rates Contra Costa Fire Protection District Chief Lewis Broschard wasted no time addressing the proverbial elephant in the room during a public meeting on April 1 on newly released Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps for communities throughout the state. No, the maps issued by Cal Fire ...

“Acting Our Lives” class melds writing, physicality into a transformative experience Power of personal expression has long inspired Bobbi Ausubel, who turns 89 this month, and by all indications there appears no letting up. Soon after settling into the routine of Rossmoor about 12 years ago, she started spreading her joy of acting through a class o...

‘Rossmoor Walnut Creek’ voted as the community’s brand name The Marketing Task Force settled on more of its objectives at its March 31 meeting. The task force gave unanimous support to designating Rossmoor Walnut Creek as the brand name for the community, with Rossmoor as a nickname. The Rossmoor Walnut Creek name already has been registered with C...

Elevator stalls happened within a week’s span A Rossmoor couple is speaking out over concerns about elevators after each was trapped in one in their Stanley Dollar Drive building in two incidents in less than a week. Alan Brown went to the March 27 GRF Board meeting to describe during Residents’ Forum how both he and his wife, Dianne, each had been...