As expected when a big sign went up in the spring, the Albany Planning Division has now received a site plan for the construction of a Panera Bread Café.
$10,000 toward a greater front view
Written July 18th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
You won’t be looking at the famous “cheese grater” at 415 First Avenue W. for much longer. The downtown urban renewal agency Wednesday gave the building’s tenants $10,000 toward refurbishing the building’s front the way it looked after it was built around 1866.
Are we there yet? Not quite, but close
Written July 18th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Wondering when — or indeed if — street work in downtown Albany will ever be finished? The answer is Friday, sort of.
Get to know my smart meter? Why?
Written July 16th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Pacific Power is asking us all to “get to know your new smart meter.” I don’t know about you, but as for me, that’s one complication I didn’t ask for and don’t need.
It may not look all that ‘noxious,’ but …
Written July 15th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
By landing where it did, this butterfly called my attention to the subject of noxious weeds. For a “noxious weed” is what, 14 years ago, the Oregon Department of Agriculture declared this flowering bush to be.
Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Buddleia davidii, butterfly bush, noxious eeds, Oregon Department of Agriculture
Tags: Buddleia davidii, butterfly bush, noxious eeds, Oregon Department of Agriculture
Going slow: Rattling down Water Avenue
Written July 14th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
From time to time I’ve wondered about the speed that the Portland & Western’s freight trains maintain on the line down the middle of Albany’s Water Avenue. Now, based on some fortuitous data gathering, I have a pretty good idea.
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Albany’s old bikeway has a new sign
Over 40 years or so, wind and weather had left their mark on the sign marking one entrance to Albany’s first bikeway. Now the sign looks like new again — because it is.
Tags: Periwinkle Pike Path