HASSO HERING

A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Looking around on a cold autumn ride

Written November 28th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Winter won’t start for another three weeks, but the air was chilly enough on my bike ride through parts of Albany on Tuesday afternoon.


What happened here? A fire on June 10

Written June 27th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

The hill on the south side of the Pacific Boulevard overpass bears the obvious traces of a recent fire. I could not help noticing this on Monday when I rode on the pathway between Albany Station and Swanson Park.


A praying mantis on that distant roof?

Written January 29th, 2020 by Hasso Hering

What’s that odd-looking yellow contraption up on the roof in the distance? It caught my eye on Jan. 25 as I was standing under the Pacific Boulevard viaduct in Albany and looking around.


Rocks in a hard place: No more camping

Written October 24th, 2019 by Hasso Hering

Some 522 tons of rocks and boulders have put a stop — for now at least — to a longstanding problem: Squatters camping under the Pacific Boulevard viaduct in Albany where Jackson Street and Seventh Avenue meet.


Area cleaned up by — guess who?

Written January 31st, 2019 by Hasso Hering

The Swanson Path and surrounding grounds, which only a week ago had been a mess of discarded blankets and other trash, has been cleaned up, and you’ll be astonished to learn by whom.


Costly pathway turns into trashy walk

Written January 22nd, 2019 by Hasso Hering

Sometimes you get the feeling it makes no sense to spend big money on public improvements as long as vandals and vagrants remain free — and motivated, if that’s the right word — to ruin them with spray paint and trash.


The cleanup never ends

Written January 23rd, 2018 by Hasso Hering

The wasteland under the Pacific Boulevard viaduct is not exactly Albany’s garden spot. Vagrants have turned it into a dump where repeated cleanups have to be done.


 
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