A short-eared owl hunts small mammals by night, flying low and following the contours of the land. Photo: Grayson Harlow. Winter’s a good time to learn to spot the birds that surround us, said Grayson ...

Crozet Cider Company Inc. was established in 1905 on the southeast corner of Jarmans Gap Road and Powell’s Creek. Its products included cider, vinegar, preserves, jellies, jams and evaporated and ...

A Crozet citizen contacted White Hall District Board of Supervisors Representative Ann Mallek to ask whether golf carts and Utility Terrain Vehicles (UTVs) are allowed on county streets and roads, as ...

Varisty cheerleaders in special breast cancer awareness uniforms, from left: Back row: MacKenzie Harris, Samantha Bailes, McKinzy Hocutt, Tessa Valmarana, Gwyneth Powell, Layla Appold. Front row: ...

People of all ages, fitness levels, and physical limitations are welcome at MTHD 434 a locally-owned Pilates studio. Submitted photo. Research into the longest-living people on earth shows us they get ...

ACPS is launching a program of specialized coursework organized around specific areas of study for high schoolers called Scholars Studios. Courtesy ACPS. Albemarle County Public Schools (ACPS) is ...

Pop artist Charli XCX’s 2024 album title “brat” became the Collins WOTY If you had to choose one word to memorialize 2024, what would it be? Climate Change? Renewables? Data Center? Following their ...

Before moving to Love, our former neighbors in Chesterfield County fretted that we’d have no social life living in such an isolated spot in the mountains. They needn’t have worried. The first winter ...

Linda Blum, a retired member of the environmental sciences faculty at the University of Virginia and a lifelong gardener, has been named Master Gardener of the Year by the Piedmont Master Gardeners.

Last season’s outdoor track state champion, Raina Fitzwater. Photo: Ron Wade. Western Albemarle High School’s pole vault program is helmed by a guy whose life story reads like a history of pole ...

Hikers prepare for a hike in Mint Springs on a cold December morning. From left: Mary Dreyer, Eleanor Rizzo, Hanadi Al-Samma, Nirmala Sharma, Audrey Yeatmen, Elizabeth Williams, Adam Seroka, Bob ...

Alyssa Free (center) as Dewdrop in the Waltz of the Flowers, with Ruby Adams, Maggie Anderson, Maddie Black, Maeve Buckley, Margaret Davis, Chloe Krause, Louisa Pesch, Olivia Ramirez-Weaver, Iona Reid ...