The good news is that traffic delays because of bridge construction on Old Salem Road in Millersburg will end sooner than expected.
For the former Albany Safeway at Pacific and Calapooia, the years of standing vacant are coming to an end. Contractors have begun cleaning out the former store so it can become a new retail business — but not a supermarket.
Could those be the first cherry blossoms along Albany’s Lyon Street downtown? They don’t look like much yet, but wait a few years until those trees are bigger and put on a springtime show, even in the rain.
The big new Love’s truck stop on the north side of Millersburg is coming along, as passersby on Old Salem Road can readily see. I heard that it hopes to open on July 11, but I haven’t been able to confirm the date.
Traffic congestion in North Albany has been a topic before the city council and the planning commission lately. The message as I understood it: There’s nothing much that can be done.
It’s been almost exactly four years since Albany’s urban renewal agency agreed to provide financial aid for the renovation of the Fortmiller Building downtown. Now the developers are ready to show off the result.
Guns and the Oregon Constitution
In the debate about gun control, it is worth remembering what the Oregon Constitution actually says, and then check what the court has said it means.
Tags: gun control, Initiative 43, Initiative 44, Oregon Constitution, Section 27, State v. Kessler