Every January for the past 35 years, Albemarle County has transferred a sum of money to the City of Charlottesville under a pact called the Revenue Sharing Agreement (RSA). “Sharing” is a euphemism, ...

A new “farm winery” is under construction in western Albemarle, one of more than two dozen of the popular agritourism destinations already studding the county. Dubbed Hillcrest Vineyard and Winery, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why Crozet? Is a long-running feature that examines the many reasons why long-time area residents and newcomers love Crozet and the surrounding villages and countryside. This month we’ve chosen a ...

For years, Ruby Smith drove by the old Rosenwald School on Newtown Road and noted the vines creeping up the stone foundation, and the weeds in the schoolyard. After serving the area’s children for ...

“ Why Crozet” is a long-running feature focusing on the many reasons why people move to Crozet, and why they stay here. We’ve found that it’s the people here who make the biggest difference in the ...

A rendering of how the solar array will look when complete this fall at the Ivy Materials Utilization Center on Dick Woods Road. Photo: RSWA Construction is underway on a 13.5-acre solar array that ...

Zenith Firearms Compliance Officer Danielle Yancey (left) and CEO Hanri Kaya. Photo: Malcolm Andrews. The name of Zenith Firearms is aspirational, says its owner and CEO Hanri Kaya. “We are always ...

One night in 1984, Bernard Coffindaffer of Craigsville, West Virginia, told his wife he had a vision in which God audibly spoke to him about erecting a series of three wooden crosses along roadways ...

After 13 years at the helm, Field School founder Todd Barnett will step down as Head of School and make way for a new leader, Dr. Charles Skipper, to take the wheel this fall. From its earliest days ...

The new Simmons Gap School was constructed c.1911 for the Board of Mountain Work, Archdeaconry of the Blue Ridge, Diocese of Virginia. It was the third schoolhouse to serve that mountain community, ...