Shortly after the City’s curbside pick up, the County and City Parks & Recreation crews will team up to chip the estimated 2600 trees at Darden Towe Park. … The sites are as follows: Chris Greene Lake in Earlysville Crozet Park Darden Towe Park Greenwood Community Center *Rivanna Solid Waste Authority Recycling Center on McIntire Road (*note: Sunday hours are 12noon – 5pm) Scottsville Community Center Walnut Creek Park * The RSWARC on McIntire Rd. may be congested, please consider Darden Towe Park as an alternate location that has easy access and is suited better for large loads and contract haulers.
Become Involved in the Crozet Community
From the Crozet Park Board: Claudius Crozet Park, Incorporated (CCP, Inc) is currently accepting applications to serve on its Board of Directors. CCP, Inc is a non-profit (I.R.S. classification 501(c)(3)) organization which owns a 22-acre park in Crozet and operates the Park in partnership with Albemarle County Parks and Recreation.
Crozet Arts and Crafts Festival October 11 and 12
This year with wine tasting! One note – if you happen to take photos of the Festival, please upload them to Flickr and tag them with “crozet” – that way they’ll show up in the slideshow to the right. From their press release: “Don’t miss …
2nd Annual Crozet Music Festival – October 4 and 5
The First Annual Festival was well received; this year the Festival moves from Claudius Crozet Park to Misty Mountain Campground, and it should be even better than last year’s event (the alcohol problem should be fixed). 
Local food, beverages (I hear Blue Mountain is coming, too!) … Acoustic Stage: Saturday, October 4 Eli Cook Devon Sproule Paul Curreri Helen Horal Morwenna Lasko and Jay Pun Greg Brown Marianna Bell Sunday October 5 Red Shoes Jeebus David Tewksbury Martinez and Guthrie Joia Wood Joe Pollock Main Stage bands: Saturday Oct 4 The Wave Jim Waive and the Young Divorcees Hogwaller Ramblers Travis Elliott Six Chasing Seven Tim Be Told Kings of Belmont Sunday Oct 5 Grey Matter Chickenhead Blues Band Trees on Fire Ian Gilliam and the Firekings South 29 Charlottesville Blues Allstars Alligator Tickets : $20.00 At the gate $15.00 Advance Ticket Outlets : Mincer’s , Belair Market , Maupin’s Music and Video in Crozet and online at CrozetMusicFestival.com
Crozet Park wants the County to fund a Bubble
He reminded the Board that the County assisted with the construction of the Crozet pool in 1996, and continues to provide financial assistance for some families thanks to a partnership with the County’s Department of Social Services. … Rooker told Strickland that he felt the Star Swimming proposal was specific, and included a plan that demonstrated how the facility’s operating costs could be maintained without ongoing County support.
Crozet Music Festival – What did you think?
Johnston, who plays with The Rogan Brothers band, said the perils of putting together a music festival are enormous, “like invading Normandy, when nothing goes right.â€Â He was impressed that short, 30-minute-or-so sets were moving along rapidly and organizers seemed to have pulled it off with aplomb.“Charlottesville needs this,†said Johnston, standing near the beer truck and wearing a green velvet shirt and black cowboy hat, beer in hand. Several musicians said there is no similar venue or festival in the area and the event fills a void.“All these local bands need to have an outlet like this,†Johnston said…. Young rock bands are coming out of the woodwork, he said.That the thing happened at all makes it an unqualified success.
Crozet Arts and Crafts Festival this weekend, 13-14 October
One of the best events in the region makes its fall appearance this weekend at Crozet Park. More information here.Come and familiarize yourself with the Park grounds in anticipation for next weekend’s Crozet Music Festival.
Competition is a good thing
Competition makes the strong stronger, makes the efficient that much more so and forces needed changes and evolutions.In Crozet, the Old Trail development (ultimately 2200 homes in a New Urbanist development) is a force to be reckoned with…. They have plans to provide “affordable” housing (which may have a different definition of “affordable” than many of us are used to).The time for arguments about whether Old Trail should have been approved at such a scale, has past.Crozet Park faces some very real competition…. When it comes to nuts and bolts, they are providing a product, and for the past forty years or so (a great history is here, provided by Crozet’s Brian Campbell) have held a monopoly in Crozet on these facilities.But they won’t keep the reputation as having the best product if they don’t innovate and embrace their position as the hub of Crozet…. “Used” items aren’t as much fun (and often not as valuable either).Let’s hope that the Park Board sees fit to compete – the possibilities are endless.
Homesick for Crozet
Should you ever want to write a story for the blog, please submit it here.I wonder if anyone else who grew up in Crozet ever feels this way when they drive through Crozet today. I read that some feel the old Crozet was an eye sore, the old buildings and store fronts, etc. Maybe you need to go to Charlottesville to live…. Coffee Jackson selling Christmas trees in the parking lot beside the old bank, I just smile to think, “how did he make anything for his efforts?”Crozet had a theater at one time…. I felt sad when I rode to old Crozet Elementary School, I got out and walked around and went to the back of the school where I started first grade so many years ago. I walked through the play ground.
Send those Crozet Fireworks donations now!
Box 124 Crozet, Virginia 22932Text of the letter requesting funds is below the “fold.”From crozetpark.org:The annual Crozet Volunteer Fireman’s Fourth of July Parade will be held June 30th at 10:00 a.m. ! A summer fest – party will be held after the parade at Claudius Crozet Park with fireworks by the Crozet Community Association that evening.I don’t know that the Crozet Community Association is the sponsor, and frankly, I don’t care. So long as the fireworks go on (and I can see from from my back porch)Dear Crozet community leaders:I am writing as President of the newly incorporated Downtown Crozet Association, Inc. to ask for your support of a community effort for which our organization has agreed to serve as the coordinating sponsor.After many years of providing a free Fireworks Display as part of their Fourth of July Fireman’s Carnival, our Crozet Volunteer Fire Department has reluctantly decided that they must give up providing this show which has become a tradition for our community. The fireworks costs have increased significantly and this expense was taking away from the purpose of their carnival – to raise funds to purchase fire fighting equipment!The Downtown Crozet Association is a Virginia non-profit corporation (our IRS 501c3 application is pending) consisting of downtown Crozet merchants, property owners and others who are committed to preserving the identity of Crozet as a distinct community and promoting the small town values that drew us here in the first place!We must raise $4,200 to Save the Fireworks and, although we have placed collection jars at locations around town, your leadership donation is essential to reaching our goal.