Category: Crozet Gazette

Once again, I’m grateful for the Crozet Gazette. A few stories from July’s issue:

• Green Olive Tree is moving – across the street.
  • “We will be moving into space at Music Today. We realize this is not ideal, since it means you will have to park on the north side of 240 and cross the street to come into the store. There are several handicapped parking spaces close to the entrance. We are grateful that we can continue to be a part of the Crozet community.”
• Albemarle’s new schools (not in Crozet, but we all will benefit – even those without kids in schools)
• Piedmont Place sold, again.
• County Advances Public-Private Plan for Eastern Avenue Bridge – Lisa Martin has an extensive article on the possible plan for shifting alignment from the long-proposed and planned for Eastern Avenue away from the Cory Farm location. It’s worth your time to read the whole thing.
  • My short opinion: Keep the alignment where it’s always been planned for, and find the money to build it. And build lots of non-single-family houses and the bridge
  • I often come back to this exchange, from a CCAC meeting in March 2023:
  • “In matters from public, neighbor from Westlake gets in front to presumably oppose Oak Bluff. Says they are going to do this development before Eastern Connector (me: build infrastructure)
  • “I asked if he would support the development if the connector was put in in conjunction; “not necessarily, no.””

Just a few stories that caught my attention from this month’s Crozet Gazette.

• Crozet Elementary Students Walk to School
  • I wrote this 10 years ago about walking and riding to Crozet Elementary with my younger daughter.
• Why Crozet: Tim Tolson Has a Vision For Crozet
  • This is a must-read.
• Crozet Roundabout Construction Updates
  • The one at 151 will be finished early next year. The one we need at 240/250 should be complete by this time in 2024
• White Hall School Board Representative Resigns
  • Thanks for what you’ve done, Dave. Now who’s going to step up? School Board is immensely important.
• A Tale of Two Cell Towers
  • Good. We need more cell towers.
• Schools’ Transgender Policy Guidance Changes Again
  • No short comment on this other than, we need to protect and support our kids.
• Business Briefs: November 2022
  • Bluebird, Fox Hollow, Yellow Mug

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I noted last month that I finally paid for a Crozet Gazette subscription; with the decimation of local news, we’re lucky to have the Gazette.

A few stories that jumped out at me

• Board of Supervisors Approves Old Dominion Village Development
• DCI Presents Annual Update on the Downtown Plaza
• Parents May Review New Middle School Advisory Curriculum
• Business Briefs: September 2022
• Made in Crozet: Fresh, Small-Batch Cookies (these cookies are delicious!)
• Dynamic Duo to Lead Crozet Elementary School
• Why Crozet: Saying Goodbye to Green House Coffee
  • But: “There’s another chapter for the house and grounds. She’s leasing the space to long-time employee Valley Mobley and her brother-in-law, Javan Esh, who has a fried pie food truck business. Mobley will re-christen the spot “The Yellow Mug,” specialize in coffee drinks and pastries, and open this fall.”
• Three Notched Trail Awarded RAISE Grant

If you can, support the Crozet Gazette.

As I wrote in August:

We need journalists. To watch, to be present, to digest, to piece together threads and stories to that we the people can understand what is happening in our community.

Did you know the Daily Progress has only one reporter right now? Sean Tubbs at Charlottesville Community Engagement is providing extraordinary work for the community (please pay to subscribe; if you’re interested, I’ll gift you a subscription – ask me.)

Sean reminded us this week

There’s an entire newspaper devoted to Crozet, and the Crozet Gazette is the best source for information coming out of western Albemarle County. 

For the first time, I just paid for a subscription to the Crozet Gazette. It’s easy, and inexpensive. Now … if they’d go to Planning Commission and Board of Supervisor meetings. 🙂

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This August’s issue has, per usual, a ton of good local information.

A few selections (read the whole paper if you can; there’s something rewarding and serendipitous about browsing a newspaper — this looks to be a link to the current version of the paper, so the link will point to whatever is the current version).

• New Owner, Same Friendly Service at Crozet Hardware
• Podcaster Brad Rykal Gives a Voice to Crozet
• Creating a Wildflower Meadow to Help the Bees, Birds, and Butterflies
• Crozet Shopping Center Owners Make Improvements — but still no bike rack. Bikes and bike racks are good for business.
• Crozet Arts Center Plans Take Shape for Plaza
• Crozet Gators Swim Team Wins JSL Championship — when they won in 2013, that was the first time in 22 years, and was huge news.
• Montclair Plan Deferred as Neighbors Intensify Efforts — some more context to this development.

We need journalists. To watch, to be present, to digest, to piece together threads and stories to that we the people can understand what is happening in our community.

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