Crozet News

Some are calling this year's GOP ticket the most conservative in recent memory. And now, just days after nomination, the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor is coming under fire for a series of controversial statements.

CULPEPER The Virginia Department of Transportation's emergency project to remove unstable soil from a slope above Interstate 64 at Afton Mountain has been suspended today due to weather conditions.

Area golfers put their skills to the test Thursday as 200 of them teed off for the second annual Sheriff's Posse Golf Tournament.

Dr. M. Rick Turner, President of Albemarle-Charlottesville NAACP, and John Halliday, Library Director, are happy to announce that Brandie Quarles of Crozet is the recipient of the first NAACP/JMRL Scholarship.

The Albemarle County board of supervisors voted to approve a law, back in April, that forbids professional or career firefighters to volunteer at stations in the county when they are off duty.

Virginia's wine industry brings in nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars each year to the Commonwealth's economy.

The Boys & Girls Club of central Virginia is preparing for its 8th annual Boys and Girls Club Cycling Challenge .

VDOT's soil removal project that shuts down Interstate 64 on-and-off throughout the day will continue Monday.

The 33rd Annual Spring Crozet Arts and Crafts Festival drew thousands of visitors to Claudius Crozet Park this weekend.

The Virginia Department of Transportation's emergency project to remove unstable soil from a slope above Interstate 64 at Afton Mountain will be suspended for the rest of the week due to weather conditions.

It is just silly of the county supervisors not to allow their paid firefighters to volunteer at their local firehouses in their off-duty hours if these are not the stations they are normally assigned to.

The Virginia Department of Transportation's work at Afton Mountain has been delayed again.

From left to right: Hu Shaffer, Goldie Tomlin, Victoria Savoy, Kevin Savoy, Dale Savoy, Jane Baer, Darren Goodbar, Lilia Goodbar, Debbie Goodbar, John Ball, Alyson Ball, Vic Pena, Sandy Conley, Gary Conley, John Effland, Amy Effland.

From left: Skip Thacker, Tim Tolson, Phil Best, Jane Kulow, Bill Schrader, John Halliday, Karl Pomeroy, Wendy Saz, Allie Haddix, Rhonda Johnson, Pam Grammer and Anna Thomas.

In the residential building boom in Crozet a novel form has appeared, the live/work townhouse concept in which the upper floors of the building are designed to be residences and the lower level is zoned as commercial space.

Las CavaA as, Crozet's authentic Mexican grocery and food store, has opened an ice cream stand across the road from its Rt.

The so-called Western "Bypass" of Charlottesville will dry up future state money that will be needed for Crozet-area road improvements by tying up half of all state dollars coming to the Culpeper District of Virginia's Commonwealth Transportation Board between now and 2050.

The 103-year-old, all volunteer Crozet fire department is groaning in dismay over an April decision by the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors to forbid the county's professional firemen from volunteering at a local fire station during their off-work hours.

A four-unit residential development proposed by developer Charles Schreck for a parcel three doors north of the Dairy Queen at 1278 Crozet Avenue was discussed by the Crozet Community Advisory Council at its April 18 meeting and met with a positive response.

Batesville artist Tim Wright presented a portrait of Claudius Crozet to Jefferson-Madison Regional Library Director John Halliday April 15.