The Gazette has learned that the county’s attempt to establish a public-private partnership to fund and build Crozet’s Eastern Avenue bridge/connector will be closed with no award, as no bidders ...

Hillcrest Vineyard and Winery, under construction in western Albemarle county. Photo: Malcolm Andrews. A new “farm winery” is under construction in western Albemarle, one of more than two dozen of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

An undated photo of the century old Mt. Carmel Baptist Church. Photos submitted. UVA architecture student Logan Parham was wandering around an old cemetery in Brown’s Cove, completing a school project ...

View looking north over Old Trail. The timber haul road for the impending logging operation on Bucks Elbow Mountain can be glimpsed just below the cell tower. Mitchell Carr’s 300-acre parcel covers ...

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 ...

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 ...