Hasso Hering

Confirmed: Who will practice here

Written December 4th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

Thanks to a reader’s tip, I can now report that it’s the Corvallis Clinic that plans to occupy a new medical office building for which a site plan has been submitted to the Albany Community Development Department.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: 633 North Albany Road, Samaritan Health Services, The Corvallis Clinic at North Albany Village

Wastewater woes: Millions at stake

Written December 1st, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 7 responses.

Albany and Millersburg completed their new wastewater treatment plant on the Willamette River in 2009 at a cost of around $70 million borrowed from the state. Three years later, for about $14 million, they finished the Talking Water Gardens. Neither project has worked entirely as planned, and now the cities may go to court over […]

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Tags: "Cannibal", Albany-Millersburg sewer plant, CH2M, Kerry Shepherd, Siemens, Talking Water Gardens

N. Albany: More medics too

Written November 30th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 10 responses.

Albany city planners are reviewing not just one but two proposed site plans for commercial buildings in North Albany. They’ve just notified neighboring property owners of both.

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Tags: Hickory Street, Myers grocery, North Albany Road, North Allbany medical

Bus stops? What’s in store

Written November 30th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 5 responses.

The public transit bus shelter is still there, but buses are gone from Broadalbin Street because of the downtown Albany streetscape project. And replacing the downtown stop with two others will eventually remove some on-street parking from Ellsworth and Lyon Streets.

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Tags: Albany transit, downtown bus stops

More talk about street money

Written November 29th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 8 responses.

The Albany City Council has not forgotten about street repairs. Once again on Wednesday the members talked about ways of getting people to pay more so streets could be properly maintained.

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Tags: Albany local gax tax, Albany street repairs, street utility fee

A sidewalk anomaly explained

Written November 28th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 2 responses.

Monday was kind of a slow day, which may explain why I first noticed and then wondered about the shape of the new sidewalk on Second Avenue downtown.

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Tags: Albany downtown, Downtown streetscape, SEcond Avenue

Hate to see that start again

Written November 27th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 7 responses.

That’s the last thing Albany’s struggling downtown needs — taggers. And yet here we are, on Monday afternoon, looking across Second Avenue near Ellsworth, where somebody with a can of red spray paint had gone to work on a cabinet holding, presumably, traffic signal controls.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Dave Clark Path, downtown tagging, tagging, vandalism