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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

“ 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 ...

Five western district families have filed a lawsuit against Albemarle County Public Schools (ACPS), Superintendent Matt Haas, and Assistant Superintendent Bernard Hairston in the county’s Circuit ...

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 ...

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 ...

The annual Crozet Fourth of July celebration was held Saturday, June 29 with a parade from Crozet Elementary School to Crozet Park followed by a community gathering and fireworks at King Family ...

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 ...