It was last June that I stopped by SamFit in North Albany intending to do a story on when the place would reopen following a fire. Now Samaritan Health Services has announced the date: This coming Tuesday, April 30.
You don’t need a fancy or expensive bike to experience the best of riding a bicycle. If it’s in reasonable shape, an old bike will do.
Sometimes you wonder why something is there. Take, for example, these concrete blocks at the extreme eastern end of Water Avenue in Albany.
On my bike ride to Millersburg Saturday, I happened to see, from a distance, railroad cars sitting under the giant crane at the Mid-Valley Intermodal Center, which otherwise has remained unused since it opened in December 2022.
As if cities like Albany don’t have enough to do, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is proposing to list sections of the Willamette River as “impaired” by trash. This will trigger new regulations under the federal Clean Water Act, and cities likely will bear the brunt of a new mandate.
A bike ride Saturday took me to the corner of Conser and Old Salem roads in Millersburg, where the Kinder Morgan pipeline company owns a pumping station and a former tank farm that stored petroleum products years ago. Now the tanks are gone.
Keeping track as crossings change
Having been away for a week, I took the bike back to the Albany Waterfront Project on Friday. As I had expected, my usual point of access to the Dave Clark Riverfront Path had been torn up.
Tags: Albany riverfront, Portland & Western Railroad, Water Avenue, Waterfront Project