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 ...

It is with profound love and sorrow that we announce the last sunset of our beloved mother, Joan Christene (Hartle) Weigum, aged 89, who peacefully passed away on March 25, 2025, surrounded by the ...

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.

Mustang row at the 2024 Crozet car show. Photo: Ron Wade. This is the fourth year the show is held at Pollak Vineyards. “This is an ideal location,” show founder Steve Sellers said. “We are so ...

A rendering of how the solar array will look when complete this fall at the Ivy Materials Utilization Center on Dick Woods Road. Photo: RSWA Construction is underway on a 13.5-acre solar array that ...

Rick Vrhovac, Henley Middle School principal. Photo: Ron Wade. Albemarle County Public Schools announced that Rick Vrhovac will stay on as principal of Henley Middle School for the 2025-26 school year ...

2024 Fireworks. Photo: Malcolm Andrews. Folks, it’s time again to pay for our fireworks show. The parade and fireworks are set for Saturday, July 5 this year. Our fundraising goal—$50,000—is steeper ...

Graduating seniors left to Right: Jeremiah Nicholson, Hudson Frank, Michael Cleveland, Anders Felts, Spencer Marazita, Daniel Sanchez, Ronan MacDonald. Photo: Ron Wade. Western Albermarle boys soccer ...

For the first 75 years of Crozet’s existence, the town was surrounded by farms and orchards, as was much of the county. Russell Bargamin and, later, Ray Warrick, were the principal suppliers to the ...

Here in the hollow, an array of dangers threatens the garden, from deer to rabbits, groundhogs and the occasional loose cow. But Zsa-Zsa reigns supreme as the number one despoiler. Any bare friable ...

Free Union Country School’s winners from this year’s Writer’s Eye contest at UVA’s Fralin Museum of Art, (left to right) Anna Saielli, Anika Patel, and Sammy Sherriff, and their language arts teacher ...

Charles S. “Chuck” Hughes, III, of Crozet, made a peaceful transition on April 27, 2025, after a brief illness. Chuck was born in 1935, to Alice Fulford Hughes and Charles S Hughes Jr. in Norfolk.