HASSO HERING

A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Kids and a little wild space

Written March 14th, 2016 by Hasso Hering

If we don’t want children to sit in front of screens or game consoles all the time when they’re not in school, we ought to make sure the world outside the front door is interesting enough to play in or explore. And we should be grateful if otherwise densely packed subdivisions include a little wild or open space […]


Albany, where roundabouts flourish

Written April 12th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Just to set the record straight, Albany has five roundabouts and the one under construction now is number six. I was wrong when I wrote, in a photo caption going with a story about the North Albany Road reconstruction project a few days ago, that it would be the fourth.


Dead frogs on the street …

Written October 23rd, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Frogs around the world, according to assorted studies and reports, have been dying of diverse causes such as fertilizer, fungus, depletion of the ozone layer, and — what else — “climate change.” But the late amphibians I saw dotting the pavement on one street in North Albany’s Benton Woods subdivision Thursday probably were done in by […]

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