You miss things if you do don’t get around your neighborhood every few days. For example, here’s a new and still unfinished funeral pavilion at the historic North Palestine Cemetery on the outskirts of North Albany.
Don’t mind the signs, but …
Written June 17th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
The tennis courts at North Albany Middle School don’t seem to get much use, at least not when school is not in session, and you can see why. If the signs don’t keep people away, the condition of the nets probably does.
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Tags: Albany Public Schools, health and fitness, North Albany Middle School, school tennis courts, vandalism
Tags: Albany Public Schools, health and fitness, North Albany Middle School, school tennis courts, vandalism
Cell reception better now?
Written June 16th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
By the time I got around to the impending completion of Verizon’s new cell tower off Albany’s 53rd Avenue on Monday, the structure was already up, as is readily apparent in this image taken Tuesday.
There used to be a bridge here
Written June 16th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
As you can see — if you can see above the construction noise on the video — hardly a trace remains of the North Albany Road bridge across Thornton Lakes, and it looks as though the contractor has begun driving pilings for its replacement, which will sit two or three feet higher.
Legislators leave cyclists alone
Written June 15th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
Oregon legislators didn’t give much thought to bicycles this session, and that’s all right. Given lawmakers’ drive to make ever more laws, being ignored by them is not a bad thing. The session in Salem is just about over, and it looks like bikes and their riders are being left pretty much alone.
S. Albany getting better cell coverage
Written June 15th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
Verizon’s cell phone customers in part of South Albany have had to wait a while for better reception, but if the wait is not already over, it should be over soon. When I looked a couple of weeks ago, construction was well along on the base of what was planned as a 120-foot transmission tower […]
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Memorial’s gone; case lingers on
The “ghost bike” is gone from the spot where Albany bicyclist Grant Keith Garner was killed four months ago, and so are the other parts of the roadside memorial that showed up a few days after his death. I noticed them missing on my ride Thursday afternoon. When I inquired, I learned that the Linn […]
Tags: bicyclist killed, ghost bike, Grant Keith Garner, Linn County Road Department, roadside memorial