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Crozet’s own MusicToday is featured as this month’s Fast Company cover story. (hat tip to the the HooK’s blog)
Crozet is becoming, little by little, a destination for employees. MusicToday has nearly 200. US Joiner is another growing, now local employer.
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Crozet children and their families are facing another redistricting.
NBC 29 reports and the Daily Progress has more information.
From the DP:
The number of students who will be redistricted will be decided by Jan. 15, and school administrators will present parents with new boundary options the division is considering, said Diane Behrens, director of support and planning services for county schools.
The School Board will hold a public hearing in early March before it votes on the options.
Current elementary school districts are shown here on Albemarle’s website (PDF)
Crozet’s School Board representative can be reached here:
Barbara Massie Mouly
265 Newtown Road
Greenwood, VA 22943
540/456-6191
Update: I neglected to mention that Brian Wheeler is also our school board representative, by virtue of his being the At-Large member of the School Board. I have said many times before that Brian’s openness and level of communication (and methods) ought to be emulated by more politicians.
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Delegate Steve Landes wants your input.
To find out who your legislator is, go here.
Track the General Assembly here.
The bills that he has introduced are here.
Thanks to the New Dominion for pointing this out.
You can’t complain if you don’t participate.
From The HooK today, referencing the new Field School, a single-sex school (of which I am a huge advocate, as I graduated from the former all-male Virginia Military Institute) - 
Barnett says he’s close to finalizing the school’s initial location, which will likely be in the Claudius Crozet Park community center in Crozet. He proudly shows architectural renderings of the space, which will feature flexible classrooms with moveable walls and a large central common area. The school is accepting applications for the fall for 16 spots in each the fifth and sixth grades. (Seventh and eighth grade will be added over the following two years.) A shuttle will take students from Charlottesville to and from school each day.
The question of the day – what will be the impact on Claudius Crozet Park? Presumably the Park Building will no longer be available for rentals.
Update: Todd Barnett clarifies and expands with his comment.
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A few stories you may have missed in the past few weeks –
Ryan Homes out at Old Trail – I’m looking for the “$90,000 town house.”
Crozet to tag historic structures and here
A restaurant to come at the 240/250 intersection? This intersection now is graded “F” – what’s next? F minus minus?
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Click through to read the entire release regarding possible upcoming changes in the Public School Feeder patterns and how you can get and stay informed.
Related reading: SchoolMatters blog
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Otto’s is now open. Shame it appears that a coffee shop won’t be coming in the near future. Otto’s has been duly added to the Crozet Map. Their phone number is 434-823-4200.
School Board member Brian Wheeler’s comments.
Mr. Franco just said the previous plan was up around 400 [units] for a neighborhood model development, keep in mind that the School Division’s long range plans that are in the Crozet Master Plan are based on a population of 12,000 people. That elementary school site was to serve that level of population. And my understanding is that the housing recently approved in Crozet would already exceed that [population] if it was all built and all the people moved in.
Read them all.
For those of you who don’t read Brian Wheeler’s School Matters blog, you should. He has done a tremendous service with his most recent post regarding the potential for school overcrowding in Crozet. Take the time to read it all as well as the attachments. You’ll be better informed citizens and parents for it.
Make no mistake, even if you do not have children in the County school system, what happens to our schools affects all facets of our lives, from our houses’ values to the basic quality of life in Crozet and beyond. If only more public servants were as capable and as open as Mr. Wheeler.
Our representative for the White Hall District is:
Barbara Massie Mouly
265 Newtown Road
Greenwood, VA 22943
540/456-6191
Update 11/29/2006: Brian Wheeler has a story about the now-upcoming addition to Brownsville Elementary, among other developments.
Do you have a trusted tradesperson that you use? I would like to compile a list of plumbers, carpenters, handymen/women, electricians, cleaners, etc. who service the Crozet area. We all need them from time to time, and don’t typically know off the tops of our heads just whom to call. A personal recommendation goes a long way.
So … submit your favorites in the comments or email me and I will put them together for a future post, and maybe a wiki-type listing of Crozet-centric tradesmen/women so that we all know whom we can call when we have a need.