A Crozet lumber company’s bid to expand its business by altering Albemarle County’s Comprehensive Plan has taken a severe hit.

Albemarle County school officials are one step closer to reducing crowding at Crozet Elementary School after a public hearing on a plan to shuffle students was met with stony silence. 

Albemarle County rolled out a master plan for downtown Crozet in 2004, and officials now say the village will become a “destination” spot for locals.

A town meeting will be held this week so residents can talk with Albemarle County staff about Crozet infrastructure projects that are planned or under way.

From hybrid vehicles to motion sensor fluorescent lights, Albemarle County government is going green.

Six months after striking a distribution deal with Anheuser-Busch, Crozet-based Starr Hill Brewery says its beer can be bought across Virginia, and plans for more Southeast distribution are in the works.

Not just yet. But the reports and even faked photos are still increasing.

Albemarle County is inviting Crozet residents to workshops to contribute ideas for new uses of the Old Crozet School building from June 19 to 21 at Western Albemarle High School.

A dog was rescued Monday morning after spending more than three days stuck inside a muddy drainage pipe in Crozet.

Suggestions for amenities at a park in a Crozet meadow have been plentiful — a pavilion, multi-use fields, a playground, a picnic area, a giant chalkboard.

Faced with two equally compelling and cogent arguments, city councilors on Monday settled on a third option: Do nothing.

Crozet fire calls crews from area

Pegasus Medical Transport takes at least one to the hospital as county, state and federal authorities investigate a wounding at a western Albemarle County home. The home is located in the same general area of the county as Thursday’s highway shooting events. No word on whether the shootings and this morning’s incident are related.

By Thursday afternoon, life had essentially returned to normal for most residents of Crozet and other communities close the scene of the overnight highway shootings. Yet the so-called “sniper,” they said, was the topic of everyone’s conversation.

Residents in one of the largest developments in Albemarle County will soon be able to eat and work out closer to their homes, developers announced on Tuesday.