If that’s not a pedestrian crossing, what else could it possibly be? That was my question when I saw this sign Wednesday at the newly completed railroad crossing at Hill Street and Water Avenue in Albany.
Not your usual flotsam and jetsam
Written April 18th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
The riverfront is my beat, and Wednesday it offered an unusual sight: The hull of a derelict speedboat loaded with a collection of old tires and a toilet complete with its tank.
Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Benton County Sheriff's Office, Bowman Park, trash boat, Willamette River, wreckage
Tags: Benton County Sheriff's Office, Bowman Park, trash boat, Willamette River, wreckage
N. Albany shoppers: The wait is over
Written April 17th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
North Albany’s long wait for a supermarket is over. Now customers can demonstrate that opening the North Albany IGA Supermarket and Hero ACE hardware store was the right move.
CARA yanks old-house request
Written April 17th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
A million-dollar funding request to help preserve three derelict old houses in Albany’s Monteith Historic District has been pulled from Wednesday’s agenda of the Central Albany Revitalization Area’s advisory board.
Another house closed as unsafe
Written April 16th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
One of my regular bike routes takes me around the corner of First and Columbus in east Albany. This week a house there had been boarded up “by order of the Albany Police Department,” according to the stencils on the plywood sheets covering the windows. Kristopher Schendel, the code compliance officer in the police department, […]
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Tags: Albany code enforcement, Albany housing, boarded-up houses, dangerous buildings
Tags: Albany code enforcement, Albany housing, boarded-up houses, dangerous buildings
CARA to weigh $1 million request
Written April 15th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
If the city of Albany wants three century-old houses in the Monteith Historic District rebuilt and preserved, it will have to put up a million dollars in urban-renewal aid. The issue comes up Wednesday when the advisory board of the Central Albany Revitalization Area meets.
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Ho-hum: No end to parking saga
The same old story, it seems: As this Wednesday photo illustrates, backing into those angled spaces on Second Avenue outside the Albany Post Office just is not intuitive enough for some drivers. This is not surprising. Based on a staff recommendation but without any public input, angled back-in parking was adopted by the advisory board […]
Tags: Albany parking, back-in angled parking, diagonal parking