Crozet News

A new court date has been scheduled for a Crimora woman charged with driving under the influence and involuntary manslaughter.

Anyone 14 years or older may come and help Bob Kirchman and Meg West restore the mural under the railroad bridge.

The Crozet Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization formed a seven-person subcommittee in January to tackle the staffing cutbacks that will follow from the school's sagging enrollment.

The nonprofit Albemarle Housing Improvement Program, AHIP, is applying for a state grant to renovate a neighborhood and has selected Crozet's Orchard Acres as its candidate neighborhood.

The lion's share of the architectural documentation needed to qualify Crozet's older sections as a state and national historic district was finished in 2008 but the final application papers that would make the district official were never completed and submitted to state officials.

Sunday was the second day of an auction of the collection of the late Penny McGee of Crozet, and it drew a full house at KF Auctions in Radford.

Ban on Sunday hunting shouldn't be repealed, by Marlene A. Condon, a naturalist and author/photographer who lives in Crozet, Va.

The Jefferson-Madison Regional Library is lobbying lawmakers to send more state funds to buy new books.

Hours: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday; to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday; to 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday Price: Moderate.

Albemarle County supervisors tackled funding for a Crozet park, but failed to come to consensus on a new chair at a meeting Wednesday night.

A million-dollar makeover could be on the way to a neighborhood in Crozet. Albemarle County is targeting Orchard Acres for federal funds to rehabilitate dozens of older homes.

This year's makeup of the seven-member Albemarle County Planning Commission will not be known until February because its current chair has decided to not seek another term as the commission's at-large representative.

The Freedom 5K was run for the third time Dec. 10, the day of the Army/Navy football game, on a course through Old Trail in Crozet.

Sally James and Darwin Lambert compare notes on the Shenandoah National Park removals of the 1920s and '30s. Lambert was Shenandoah's first hire in 1936.

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