HASSO HERING

A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Reload project faces competition

Written November 14th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Albany and Millersburg may face competition for the state’s $25 million to develop a mid-Willamette Valley intermodal transportation and reloading center. Lebanon and perhaps Eugene-Springfield may also submit applications, the Albany City Council heard Monday.


Take a last look at this ‘tunnel’

Written June 22nd, 2015 by Hasso Hering

This is another mid-valley sight that’s about to disappear along with what’s left of the Albany Paper Mill. It’s the overhead tunnel on Old Salem Road that used to hold a massive array of piping and other gear connecting a cogeneration plant on the west side with the mill proper on the other side of […]


IP’s Albany Mill: A demolition update

Written May 18th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Not much is left of the Albany Paper Mill in Millersburg except for an exhaust stack and piles of metallic debris. But the name at the former entrance off Old Salem Road remains, and it’s surrounded by a patch of well tended lawn. It’s as though somebody wants to keep our memory of the mill […]


Outside IP’s shuttered Albany Mill

Written December 7th, 2012 by

Three years after it was shut down, the work of dismantling the former Albany Mill of International Paper continues, albeit slowly, judging from a cursory look from outside the site on Salem Road on an uncharacteristically sunny December afternoon.


 
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