The Gazette features crisp news reporting and revealing interviews, all told with our distinctive local accents, plus calendar and classified services. The Gazette publishes on the first Thursday of ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Crozet Future Land Use Map, based on Crozet’s 2021 Master Plan. Albemarle County has for the past three years been working on an update to its Comprehensive Plan, dubbed “AC44,” as it looks forward to ...

The mention of maple trees often conjures up large shade trees—sugar maples or red maples, for example— known for their brilliant fall color. But there are smaller maples that are much more versatile ...