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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Albemarle County officials are exploring a public-private partnership to fund and build the Eastern Avenue Connector, a road and bridge that would link Eastern Ave. at Westhall Drive southward across ...

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, ...

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 ...

The county’s Architectural Review Board (ARB) conducted a preliminary architecture review at its February 5 meeting for the proposed Three Notch’d Center in Crozet—a 23,120- square-foot, two story ...

A local history tent, where everyone can share stories and historical artifacts was organized by Carol Allen. Tommy Shannon, winner of the challenging Batesville 10k The Henley Middle School Band ...

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 ...

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 ...