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 ...

Time, neglect and vandalism have scarred the former Howard Johnsons on Afton Mountain. Photo: Malcolm Andrews. Augusta County wants a highway entrance that combines commercial development with a ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

While I was hacking away at wild grapevine tangled in a patch of paw paws, a flash of red popped into view. There was no mistaking it. The half-inch critter in front of me was a spotted lanternfly, in ...

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 ...

Brightberry (formerly Headquarters) was an antebellum home of the namesake family of Brown’s Cove, located at the eastern base of the Blue Ridge Mountains alongside Doyle’s River in Albemarle County.

The village of Batesville, Virginia, with its beginnings reaching back to the mid-18 th century, is one of Albemarle County’s best-preserved secrets. The 25 m.p.h. drive through its main thoroughfare ...

Diocese of Richmond Bishop Barry Knestout celebrated the first mass at Our Lady of the Rosary’s new home, the former Bank of America building in downtown Crozet, on Oct. 7, the feast day of Our Lady ...

Downtown Crozet Initiative rendering of the future plaza and commercial buildings on the former Barnes Lumber site. Key: 1=Potential Pedestrian Connection; 2=Streetscape Improvements; 3= Future ...