A new “farm winery” is under construction in western Albemarle, one of more than two dozen of the popular agritourism destinations already studding the county. Dubbed Hillcrest Vineyard and Winery, ...

Every January for the past 35 years, Albemarle County has transferred a sum of money to the City of Charlottesville under a pact called the Revenue Sharing Agreement (RSA). “Sharing” is a euphemism, ...

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 new Simmons Gap School was constructed c.1911 for the Board of Mountain Work, Archdeaconry of the Blue Ridge, Diocese of Virginia. It was the third schoolhouse to serve that mountain community, ...

The Nelson County Sheepdogs June in their official formation on June 20 at Zenith Firearms, with a Viet Nam-era UH-1 Huey helicopter in the background. Submitted photo. Militia groups in Virginia will ...

One night in 1984, Bernard Coffindaffer of Craigsville, West Virginia, told his wife he had a vision in which God audibly spoke to him about erecting a series of three wooden crosses along roadways ...

Albemarle County officials are exploring a public-private partnership to fund and build the Eastern Avenue Connector, a road and bridge that would link Eastern Ave. at Westhall Drive southward across ...

“ Why Crozet” is a long-running feature focusing on the many reasons why people move to Crozet, and why they stay here. We’ve found that it’s the people here who make the biggest difference in the ...

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 ...

The next stage in the development of Old Trail will happen under a new management team. Manchester Capital Management LLC has been hired by the principal financial backers of Old Trail, Jay and ...

Meanwhile, fireworks costs have soared. This year’s show cost $22,500, half of that on deposit in January (we paid it—your editor is one of the event planners) and half immediately after the event.

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 ...