Resolutions of the Crozet Community Association (CCA), regarding AC44, the Montclair stream, and Oak Bluff/Eastern Avenue, were presented for discussion and vote at its May 8 meeting. Per CCA bylaws ...

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 entrance to the Greenwood Superfund site in Newtown. Photo: Malcolm Andrews. It has been decades since four workers engulfed in flames fled the Greenwood Chemical Plant after highly volatile ...

Crozet Fireworks at Claudius Crozet Park. Photo: Malcolm Andrews. The first mention of the Crozet Fourth of July Firemans’ Carnival in local newspapers dates to 1926. It started as a fundraiser for ...

Once upon a time, black bears vanished in Virginia. Though thousands roamed here in pre-colonial times, by the 1900s the Commonwealth’s land had been mostly clear-cut for farming, and as bears found ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...