An offhand comment by Planning Commissioner Rick Randolph at a January meeting on land use raised an oft-considered question: Should Crozet become a town? As Randolph tried to blunt citizen calls for ...

The HART team and their co-workers accept an award from the Virginia Association of Counties. From left, Fire Rescue Chief Dan Eggleston, Chief Human Services Officer Kaki Dimock, Sue Hess with ...

Since his retirement from National Geographic, Sam Abell has continued to work, including teaching workshops. Here, he leads students in a photographic expedition on Charlottesville’s downtown mall.

Ramsey cabin at the Carter farm, Humpback Rocks. Photo by Lynn Coffey. On a crisp autumn morning, a plume of smoke rolls from the rock chimney of a one-room log cabin and a rooster crows his lusty ...

While I was hacking away at wild grapevine tangled in a patch of paw paws, a flash of red popped into view. There was no mistaking it. The half-inch critter in front of me was a spotted lanternfly, in ...

WAHS senior Thomas Heilman won a silver medal at the Paris Summer Olympic Games in July. Photo: Lisa Martin. Not many people in the world can say they were an Olympian while still in high school, but ...

Albemarle County Office Building in downtown Charlottesville. Photo: Albemarle County. Albemarle County Public Schools (ACPS) announced several changes to its division leadership structure and ...

Field School mountain bikers, from left, front row: Cabell Zahl (7th grade), Jack Henderson (6th), Tommy Clarens (6th), Will McClain (6th), Ethan Rogers (8th), John Gruber (8th), back row: Andy Gruber ...

Diocese of Richmond Bishop Barry Knestout celebrated the first mass at Our Lady of the Rosary’s new home, the former Bank of America building in downtown Crozet, on Oct. 7, the feast day of Our Lady ...

It’s been a little more than two years since Crozet Mobile Village on Park Road—now known as the Crozet Mobile Home Community (MHC)—was sold for $4 million by Richard Hevener, a businessman who had ...

Dan Mahon, Greenway Supervisor and Crozet resident, is retiring after 23 years with Albemarle County Parks and Recreation. Submitted photo. “Nature is therapeutic,” said Crozet resident Dan Mahon, ...

Traditionally, the Gazette has offered local candidates for office the opportunity to make an 800-word statement of their candidacy on our pages. This month we present statements from each of the four ...