Chiles is a great place to pick apples, says Richmond.com. And strawberries and peaches and cherries.
Of course, Henleys’ is a pretty fantastic orchard too.
Crozet’s got apples a plenty.
Crozet Trails Crew 5k a Great Success
Great to see so many at the Crozet Trails Crew 5k today. A rainy, muddy, fun 5k on an outstanding set of trails around Crozet.
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RealCrozetVA Summary – One Email a Month?
One note a month. I don’t often self-promote (as y’all know) but this could be useful for many of you. I write a once-a-month note that covers the Charlottesville area real estate market but some other stuff too – notably a roundup of what happened on the blog over the past month.
I posted 18 stories in September on RealCrozetVA, and that might be too much for many of you. So if you find subscribing to RealCrozetVA’s feed overwhelming (I can see that!) may I suggest signing up for *one* email a month?
If you’re interested, you can sign up for one email a month here.
Crozet Arts & Crafts Festival – 12 & 13 October 2013
The Crozet Arts & Crafts Festival is next weekend … and they need volunteers!
Volunteer to help set up, (some trucks and strength needed) sell tickets at the gate, or answer some questions at the Information booth (don’t worry we will give you a list of answers!) Volunteer to sell tickets or stand by the gate to greet folks with a “hello”! The pace is reasonable, the people are friendly and the weather….well we would like to guarantee only the best- but we take what we can get!
Please click on this Sign-up Genius Link to throw your name into the growing pool of folks that care enough to give an hour or so of their time!
Sidewalks Coming to 250 near Harris Teeter?
Pedestrian improvements have long been advocated for by the CCAC and Crozetians for some time. There may be a glimmer on the sidewalk horizon.
thanks to Charlottesville Tomorrow, this PDF staff report notes:
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Crozet Hero Receives Carnegie Medal
via the Richmond Times Dispatch:
“Warren L. Wood Jr., 45, a facilities manager and volunteer firefighter in Crozet … who pulled three people from a burning car was one of 22 people honored today with medals for heroism by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission.”
Crozet Tourism Zone Approved
On the 4th attempt, the Crozet Tourism Zone was approved. Tourism is Crozet is likely to be benefited and increased thanks to the new Crozet Tourism Zone. I have a hunch as to which developer is “already in talk” with the County.
Crozet Trails Crew Update – Bridges, 5K, Volunteer Appreciation Day
via email …
Wooo Wheee, the trail for the 5k is really shaping up to be a nice one. I wish I could run in the race! Maybe I could win the bridge…
That brings me to an important announcement: This year, as a result of some questions and requests, we will honor the first place male AND the first place female with a bridge. So don’t let your concern over the opposite sex running so darn fast keep you from the race on October 12th!
Upcoming:
This Saturday- Workday! Putting the last minute touches on the 5k route. Meet at Crozet Park (lower playground) at 8:30am. Come on out and check out the beautiful trail!
This Sunday-Adam George Bridge Dedication. Come on out! Meet at the Foothills Crossing cul-de-sac at 3pm.
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Results of the “Does Crozet Need a Hotel” Survey
First, thank you to everyone who took the time to take and comment on the survey; I’m going to keep it open for responses for at least a couple weeks.
Second, to answer two of the comments on the survey “and btw, bugger you if you use my ip address! for anything!” and “Don’t want to be contacted or added to mailing lists.” Nope. Never. If you want to subscribe to RealCrozetVA, you can do that. If you want to subscribe to my monthly note, you can do that too. I’ll never spam you.
Third, I received this by email (and am posting it with permission and have edited it a wee bit) –
Am I the only person who nowadays finds mention of “Crozet” as a location confusing?
People often refer to events taking place in Old Trail as being in “Crozet”–period. If I were a stranger to the area trying to attend an event in Old Trail listed as being “in Crozet,” I would be searching in downtown Crozet for an event that is actually taking place in Old Trail.
Thus when you ask if a hotel should be built in “Crozet,” I don’t know if you mean “old” Crozet or “new” Crozet (i.e., Old Trail or along 250). Therefore I can’t contribute to the survey without knowing exactly where you are talking about. Could you please let me know?
I do think there needs to be a discussion about differentiating between downtown Crozet and all of the new businesses outside of downtown, either on 250 or in Old Trail. It’s too confusing, in my opinion, for people to just say “Crozet”.
And my response –
When I say “Crozet” I deliberately think all of Crozet – from Greenwood Gourmet to the railroad trestle at 240/250 to about Wyant’s …
Realistically we have three business districts – Downtown, Old Trail and 250 and I personally think that we need to focus on downtown as Old Trail has the developers focusing on it while 250 has the market, if you will.
So … I think for the first part of the conversation it’d be better to be “greater Crozet” and then where within Crozet … what do you think?
We touched on this topic in January when we talked about “What do We Want Crozet to Be?” – which ended up having a great discussion – worth (re)visiting.
I’m going to excerpt some of the comments to the survey below.
If you’re interested in the full results (minus respondents’ contact information) please leave a comment or contact me.
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Crozet’s Modern Barbershop Celebrates 80 Years
