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A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Before and after at Albany’s Tag Central

Written January 23rd, 2026 by Hasso Hering

A Facebook post by the Albany Parks Department sent me to the Periwinkle Bikepath Friday to see what volunteers had done to clean up recent work by taggers on what might be the city’s most notorious graffiti wall.


Can that feeble lane marker be improved?

Written January 22nd, 2026 by Hasso Hering

It was in October 2018 that the Oregon Department of Transportation followed up on an Albany request and painted a new line to help drivers on Ellsworth Street turning left on Ninth Avenue. It has worked pretty well, but maybe not well enough.


Underground wiring: Here’s what you’ll pay

Written January 21st, 2026 by Hasso Hering

Now we know how much Pacific Power customers within the city of Albany will pay as their share of the cost of putting power lines under ground on a section of Water Avenue.


Speed cameras produce at a steady pace

Written January 20th, 2026 by Hasso Hering

Albany’s traffic cameras at four intersections are no longer new. You’d think drivers would have learned by now. But apparently not.


Cost of greenhouse laws: Now they tell us

Written January 18th, 2026 by Hasso Hering

Now, when the temperature drops to freezing these winter nights, is a good time to remember Oregon’s laws on fossil fuel and greenhouse gas. The laws are insane.


Former restaurant building has been razed

Written January 17th, 2026 by Hasso Hering

The long-vacant former restaurant building at 1439 Queen Ave. is gone, and the question now is what will take its place.


Cumberland events center gets its bell back

Written January 16th, 2026 by Hasso Hering

Kept  in storage  since 2013, the bell of the historic Cumberland Church was being prepared to be lifted back into its tower this morning.


 
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