The calendar says it’s summer. Another name for that is lemonade-stand season. Or that’s what it was in days gone by.
Drivers on North Albany Road paid more than $49,000 for speeding tickets they got during May, the last full month of school days since traffic cameras at Thornton Lake Drive went live.
For the past few weeks the vast parking lot in front of 635 Pacific Blvd. in Albany has stood empty. On a bike ride last week I wondered what happened to the power sports business that occupied what had been the West Albany Safeway store back in the day.
The 2025 Oregon legislature passed what it called the “Community Firearms Safety Act.” Talk about overdoing it in the naming of a bill.
Unwanted plant growth in Waverly Lake is making its annual summertime comeback, and the Albany parks department will deal with the problem as it did the last two years.
What are the chances that Albany will install flashing lights to warn drivers that schools are in session at locations where the city has traffic cameras? Slim to none, unless the city council orders it done.
Fitting the pavers on Albany’s ‘plaza street’
When the contractor on Albany’s Waterfront Project started building the new “plaza street” on April 14, the city expected the closure of that section of Water Avenue to end in mid-June. The work has taken longer than that.
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