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 ...

Phil Bradley, shown here in 1999 when the memorial he built to the crash's victims in Mint Springs Valley Park was dedicated, used an accurate scale-model of the Piedmont DC-3 to illustrate its ...

The Nelson County Sheepdogs June in their official formation on June 20 at Zenith Firearms, with a Viet Nam-era UH-1 Huey helicopter in the background. Submitted photo. Militia groups in Virginia will ...

Great Blue Heron in Crozet. Photo: Malcolm Andrews. Albemarle County officials are exploring a public-private partnership to fund and build the Eastern Avenue Connector, a road and bridge that would ...

The Swannanoa palace on Afton mountain is believed to be haunted by the ghost of its original resident, Sallie May Dooley, whose portrait can be seen in the 4000-piece Tiffany window that rises over ...

Proposed options for the Crozet zone of the Three Notched Trail. Route A (blue) passes through downtown and near Crozet Park, Route B (orange) runs parallel to Rt. 250, and Route C (purple) follows ...

Sign up for our new newsletter at crozetgazette.myflodesk.com/signup. As we look forward to 2026—which will mark the 20th anniversary of the first issue of the ...

Most of us think of a praying mantid as a cool insect to have in the garden, a “guardian against pests.” But a closer look reveals a more complicated picture. Both native mantids and non-native ...

Businesses from downtown Crozet were duplicated to scale and lit up for Christmas. Photos: Malcolm Andrews. There was more than one reason for people to put away their differences last month, whether ...

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 ...

The annual Crozet Christmas Parade will be this Sunday, December 3 at 3 p.m. The route begins at Wayland Drive on Crozet Avenue near Green House Coffee, and turns left at Crozet Pizza and heads up to ...

Piper, a Cavapoo, sits with owner Karen Noffsinger at the Crozet Library. Children enjoy reading aloud to Piper. Photo: Malcolm Andrews. Why Crozet? is a long-running feature highlighting the many ...