For a few weeks now, Albany’s Bowman Park has sported a fine new restroom, but it hasn’t been ready for use. Completing it has taken longer than expected, but the wait may be over now.
Albany rain tax: How about ‘tiers’?
Written June 20th, 2016 by Hasso Hering
Depending on the size of the footprint of their houses, Albany single-family residential water and sewer customers would pay 50 cents more or less than the proposed standard $6.74 monthly storm water utility fee — or rain tax as IÂ like to call it — under a three-tier system proposed to the city council Monday.
It’s not what it looks like
Written June 20th, 2016 by Hasso Hering
At first glance, from afar, it looked like trouble with the Portland & Western trestle on First Avenue, where for decades trucks have now and then become stuck. But in this case, on Monday morning, trouble had done everybody a favor and stayed away.
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Tags: Albany railroad trestle, First Avenue, Portland & Western, railroad bridge
Tags: Albany railroad trestle, First Avenue, Portland & Western, railroad bridge
Enjoying summer’s first day
Written June 20th, 2016 by Hasso Hering
There are lots of ways to observe the first day of summer, I guess. But I figure one of the best is to make use of the county roads in Oregon’s mid-valley for a leisurely ride on my bike. So that’s what I did on Monday morning.
Downtown library hours: Saturdays!
Written June 18th, 2016 by Hasso Hering
Good news for book readers, especially those living in West and North Albany and near downtown. For the first time in a long time, the downtown branch of the Albany Public Library will be open Saturdays this summer, starting June 25.
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Tags: Albany Library foundation, Albany Public Library, Carnegie Library, downtown Albany library
Tags: Albany Library foundation, Albany Public Library, Carnegie Library, downtown Albany library
Why dig so deep? Because …
Written June 16th, 2016 by Hasso Hering
They’re digging a pretty big hole where the new Albany Carousel building will be, and somebody wondered why the excavation has to be so deep. As luck would have it, the Answer Man had nothing else to do and got on the phone.
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On July’s agenda: Albany gas tax
Whether Albany should ask voters to enact a local gas tax to pay for street repairs is a question that has been hanging around for a while. And now, for the first time in years, the city council will take it up next month.
Tags: Albany City Council, local gas tax, street repairs