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Periwinkle Path gets ‘multi-use’ extension

Written July 4th, 2022 by Hasso Hering
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From the Periwinkle Bikepath to Geary Street, the sidewalk on the north side of Queen Avenue is torn up for the construction of a wider walkway that will double as an extension of the bikeway too.

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Council’s red-letter day: No masks required

Written July 15th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
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For the first time in 16 months, the Albany City Council met in person this week, and the public was allowed in. No masks required.

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Pathways for walking that didn’t work out

Written June 8th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
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About 50 years ago, whoever laid out the Lafayettte Acres subdivision in southeast Albany had a good idea: These are very long blocks without cross streets, they may have thought, so let’s put in some footpaths so kids can easily walk to school.

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Bike graduation at Oak Grove

Written May 22nd, 2014 by Hasso Hering
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Thursday was graduation day for the fifth-graders at Albany’s Oak Grove School who took part in a weeklong “bike safety carnival.” With volunteer instructors and chaperones leading they way and bringing up the rear, several groups of half a dozen or more rode through North Albany neighborhoods and headed down busy Gibson Hill Road to […]

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