This Week In Crozet

Apr 25th - May 1st

Crozet United
April 24, 2024

Connecting you to what’s happening around town

Forecast

Wear Sweaters In The Morning, Regret It In The Afternoon

Things To Do

Thursday, April 25th

Friday, April 26th

Saturday, April 27th

Sunday, April 28th

Monday, April 29th

Tuesday, April 30th

Wednesday, May 1st

Planning Ahead

Truck Touch 2024 | Fairview Swim Club: 707 Belvedere Blvd Charlottesville | May 4th | 10 AM - 1 PM / $8/person or $25 per family. 12 months and under free

Mint Springs 5K | May 11th | 8 AM | $15

Summer Dive Sessions | Wahoo Dive Club | June - July | $150+

*Recurring Events

Want your event listed? Send us an email with the details. Basic event listings go for as low as $15 (non-profits are often listed at no charge). Lastly, this is a static newsletter but life isn’t. Check to make sure the event is still happening before loading up your family of 7 for the trip.

Our Town

Bear Update It’s been two months since our first report on the rescued bears at the Wildlife Center of Virginia in Waynesboro. The two male bears are growing up, getting cuter, and apparently really enjoy wrestling each other. Click the picture below for a video!

Speaking of bears Consider joining the Wildlife Center’s upcoming book club and start reading Eight Bears, Mythic Past and Imperiled Future, one of the New Yorker’s best books of the year.

New Jobs at Northrop Grumman The defense contractor has broken ground on a new $200M facility behind the Pet Smart and Michael’s in Waynesboro. When finished, the project is expected to create 300 new local jobs in advanced electronics manufacturing and testing.

Photo by Film & Flourish

The More Things Change If you are an advocate for Crozet infrastructure, the first 20 minutes of this 2006 recording is a must listen. In it, Supervisor Dennis Rooker (Diantha McKeel’s predecessor) calls out the elephant in the room by asking whether the County would ever have the funding necessary to keep its infrastructure promises to Crozet.

It’s time for the County to revisit the “Rooker question” and publicly lay out a definitive plan to meet its infrastructure obligations to Crozet before moving forward with its AC44 comprehensive plan update.

Please share your thoughts with us in the poll below at the end of this week’s newsletter: How important of a first step is it for the Board of Supervisors to publicly discuss and acknowledge that it lacks a realistic plan to fund Crozet’s promised infrastructure projects (e.g. the Eastern Avenue Connector)?

Supervisors Ann Mallek and Dennis Rooker in 2010.

WAHS News and Notes

Tennis

Both girls and boys' varsity squads continued their domination of district opponents, winning every match vs. Monticello and Charlottesville High School.
The boys followed up their in-district play with a hard-fought (5 matches to 4) win vs. Collegiate.

Baseball

This scrappy unit (8-2-1) stacked up district wins over Monticello 6-5 and Charlottesville 5-3. In those games, Aidan Carver-Woodson put on an offensive show, going 5-for-7 (.714), scoring 5 runs along with 5 stolen bases.

Lacrosse

The girls remain undefeated (6-0) by wiping out Deep Run 18-1.

WAHS Crew

Western rowers hauled in 14 gold medals at the North Carolina Rowing Championships in Highpoint.

Soccer

The boys pulled off a comeback victory over Charlottesville 3-2, then knocked off arch-rival Albemarle by the same score to remain undefeated on the season (9-0).
The girls wiped out Monticello 6-0, with Leah Raab and Sadie Bruton each scoring a pair of goals, but dropped a heartbreaker to Albemarle in double overtime 1-2. They’ll get another shot at the Patriots on May 16th.

Track & Field

Carter Torrence, usually a 400-meter specialist, tried her hand at the 100 and 200 meters at a district quad meet. She won both races, and her 100-meter time was the second-fastest posted by a Warrior since 2000. Not too shabby.

Congrats Carter Torrence!

At the Rufus Knight meet in Lynchburg, the Lady Warriors dominated at pole vault, taking 5 of the top 6 slots in the event and qualifying many of the vaulters for state competition

Crozet United’s Warrior of the Week is Aidan Carver-Woodson, who has dominated for the Warriors at the plate and in the field in recent key district victories.

WAHS Links:

The Western Hemisphere WAHS has a newspaper, it’s amazing, you should read it!

Because this sports digest is a “For Crozet, By Crozet“ operation, please feel free to send in notable student accomplishments of the sporting and academic variety.

Upcoming Events

WAHS Varsity Boys Baseball vs Louisa County | @ WAHS | Apr 25

WAHS Varsity Girls Softball vs Louisa County | @ WAHS | Apr 25

WAHS Varsity Boys Soccer vs Louisa County | @ WAHS | Apr 25

WAHS Varsity Boys Lacrosse vs Meridian | @ WAHS | Apr 26

WAHS Varsity Girls Lacrosse vs Meridian | @ WAHS | Apr 26

WAHS Varsity Boys Baseball vs Harrisonburg | @ WAHS | Apr 29

WAHS Varsity Girls Softball vs Harrisonburg | @ WAHS | Apr 29

WAHS Varsity Girls Soccer vs Orange County | @ WAHS | Apr 29

WAHS Varsity Girls Tennis vs Orange County | @ WAHS | Apr 30

WAHS Varsity Girls Lacrosse vs Orange County | @ WAHS | Apr 30

WAHS Varsity Boys Lacrosse vs Powhatan| @ WAHS | May 1

See all WAHS upcoming games here

How important is it for the Board of Supervisors to acknowledge they lack a realistic plan to fund Crozet’s many promised infrastructure projects (e.g. the Eastern Avenue Connector)?