
Lisa Martin
Writer at Freelance
Contributor at Crozet Gazette
Articles
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crozetgazette.com | Lisa Martin
Crozet’s annual Independence Day Celebration will be held this year on Saturday July 5, with fireworks at King Family Vineyard (KFV) following the downtown parade, which features fire and rescue trucks and local community groups. The fireworks show, orchestrated by the Crozet Community Association, was moved to the vineyard location last year after housing developments near Crozet Park made that site untenable because it lacked a large enough debris field for the pyrotechnics.
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crozetgazette.com | Lisa Martin
Albemarle County’s Architectural Review Board (ARB) held a public hearing in March to specify the allowable shape and scope of future building projects on the former Barnes Lumber property in downtown Crozet, which is now the site of the planned Crozet Plaza.
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crozetgazette.com | Lisa Martin
The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors finalized its budget for fiscal year 2025-26 and adopted tax rates for the calendar year 2025 at its May 7 meeting. As proposed during the budget process, the board imposed a 4.6% increase in the real estate tax rate, and increased the personal property tax rate—for things like vehicles, boats, and machinery—from $3.96 to $4.28 per $100 of assessed value, an 8% increase.
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crozetgazette.com | Lisa Martin
As the flashing signs on Rt. 250 proclaim, work will begin in early May on the long-awaited Rt. 240/250 four-leg, single-lane roundabout that will replace the perilous intersection below the railroad trestle at Mechums River. The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) project will cost $5.2 million, sourced from the state’s Highway Safety Improvement Program, and will take about two months to complete.
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crozetgazette.com | Lisa Martin
The University of Virginia’s Fralin Museum of Art hosts a writing contest each year called Writer’s Eye, in which local students and community members submit poetry or prose inspired by a work of art in the Fralin’s collection. This year’s competition drew almost 1,100 entries from ten cities and counties, and three of the ten elementary school prize winners attend Free Union Country School, a small independent school just south of Free Union.
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