Lisa Martin joined the Gazette in 2017 and writes about Crozet schools, county government, and land use conflicts. She also writes in-depth investigative pieces about division-wide education issues ...

Lynn Coffey is a freelance features reporter for the Crozet Gazette. Her Backroads column celebrates rural life and history.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Richard Brown began his first day in the world in 1935 in Freetown, a little community of some dozen or so houses behind Brownsville Market. He’s never left it. His parents were born there, too. And ...

WAHS Choir members clockwise from left: Anisten Luzaich, Emmy Driver, Hadley Cabell, Ellie Winn. Photo: Ron Wade. Founded in 2013 by band parents, Arts in Western Education (AWE) now hosts ArtsFest to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.