The pickleball courts at Albany’s Hackleman Park had lots of big cracks in the concrete. Now the courts are getting repaired.
Tags: court repairs, Hackleman Park, parks, Pickleball, resurfacing
The pickleball courts at Albany’s Hackleman Park had lots of big cracks in the concrete. Now the courts are getting repaired.
This bit of streetside wreckage raises some questions, doesn’t it?
For a long time now, there’s been a gaping hole in the fence on the path from Albany Station to Swanson Park. That might have been foreseen when plans for the station remodeling were discussed 23 years ago.
Thursday’s bike ride took me to Waverly Lake to see if by chance this was the day that work resumed on keeping the lake free of summertime algae. And sure enough, it was.
Seeing the clock tower at Albany Station on a bike ride Wednesday reminded me of a time issue that remains unresolved in Oregon because the legislature passed up a chance to fix it.
After a few days away, the bike and I returned to my Albany riverside beat on Monday and found that much had changed since the week before.
Why the ‘road closed’ sign is there
You can get to the Talking Water Gardens this week, but you’ll have to park a little farther away.
Tags: Cox Creek bridge, Simpson Park, Talking Water Gardens, Waverly Drive