Lisa Martin joined the Gazette in 2017 and writes about education and local government. She also writes in-depth pieces about division-wide education issues and broader investigative pieces on topics ...

Resolutions of the Crozet Community Association (CCA), regarding AC44, the Montclair stream, and Oak Bluff/Eastern Avenue, were presented for discussion and vote at its May 8 meeting. Per CCA bylaws ...

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 ...

The entrance to the Greenwood Superfund site in Newtown. Photo: Malcolm Andrews. It has been decades since four workers engulfed in flames fled the Greenwood Chemical Plant after highly volatile ...

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 ...

Zenith Firearms Compliance Officer Danielle Yancey (left) and CEO Hanri Kaya. Photo: Malcolm Andrews. The name of Zenith Firearms is aspirational, says its owner and CEO Hanri Kaya. “We are always ...

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 ...

Field School founder and current Head of School, Todd Barnett. Photo: Lisa Martin. After 13 years at the helm, Field School founder Todd Barnett will step down as Head of School and make way for a new ...

Once upon a time, black bears vanished in Virginia. Though thousands roamed here in pre-colonial times, by the 1900s the Commonwealth’s land had been mostly clear-cut for farming, and as bears found ...

Crozet Fireworks at Claudius Crozet Park. Photo: Malcolm Andrews. The first mention of the Crozet Fourth of July Firemans’ Carnival in local newspapers dates to 1926. It started as a fundraiser 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 ...