The “annexation monster” illustration by local artist Charles Peale, 1982. Every January for the past 35 years, Albemarle County has transferred a sum of money to the City of Charlottesville under a ...

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 Crozet Gazette is a free-distribution, community newspaper serving western Albemarle County. The Gazette features crisp news reporting and revealing interviews, all told with our distinctive local ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The School Board presented data on current overcrowding in the county’s three comprehensive high schools. Courtesy ACPS. In a lively December 3 joint meeting between Albemarle County’s Board of ...

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 ...

Brenda Johnson (right) shares a laugh while ringing bells with her partner in volunteerism, Linda Crawford. Photo by Malcolm Andrews. “Why Crozet” is a long-standing feature celebrating everything ...